Sleeping Beauty Hello everyone, my name is Kate and I am a sleepoholic. Yes, I am addicted about sleeping. For me to wake up in the morning as hard as to wake up a bear in winter. All my conscious life it was impossible for me to wake up early. It has begun from my childhood. When it was time for me to wake up my mom always created some tricks for me. She made tasty breakfast in the morning, she turned on cartoons on the TV, so I was excited about them and woke up immediately. She even ironed my clothes when it was cold outside the blanket and I didn’t want to get out from it. My mom is brilliant )I didn’t get out from the bed on my weekends till 12.00p.m. My mom always said “Kitty (yes, that’s how she called me :), wake up! You can over sleep all your life”. And that goes like this till now. No, I’m not saying that my mom still turns on cartoons for me on the TV (what would be great actually) I still don’t like to wake up early. I think the reason of my sleepy is the fact that it is hard for me to go to bed in the evening. I don’t feel sleepy in the evening. I have so much energy to do different things. My brain stops to feel sleepy (it does during the day) and it is ready for any activities. I know that people divided on two groups: owls and skylarks. Skylarks are people who like to wake up in the early morning and by the evening they are passive and feel tried. Owls are those who don’t like mornings. They prefer evening or night time and they are more productive in that period. That’s who I am :) But unfortunately our world is made for skylarks. Employers force employees arrive at work at 8.00 a.m. They don’t care how productive you are at that time. You should just go to the bed early in the evening and next day you will be fresh! Luckly my company allow me to work in flexible schedule. But still, it is hard for me to live. I come at work at 10.00 a.m., work till 19.00 and that is it… Most shops are closed, most of my friend can’t see me because they have to go to bed soon, because they have to wake up early tomorrow. I don’t know if I can change my inner clocks and recreate myself from owl to skylark. Because being honestly deep inside I am jealous to “early bird” kind of people. They live in the propriety world. There is a proverb: “The early bird catches the worm.” (although the early worm is gotten by early bird, what is not good :). I haven’t heard any about late birds ( What do you think about it? What kind of bird are you? :)

“Eat, Pray and Love” in Thailand This is a story about my the biggest fail conversation in this year :) On New Year holiday I, my sister and her friend (can I say girlfriend to make sure that it was she, not he?) was in Thailand. I have been there for the first time in my life. It is a friendly country with the nicest people I’ve ever seen. The sun there is great and the sea is warm. I definitely will come back there somehow. One evening we had tasty dinner and decided to go out somewhere. I needed to change my outfit, so I went to my hotel room. Girls left to wait me by the hotel. When I came back I thought that there was some guy with them. He tried to talk with them, and when girls saw me they screamed “Here she is! She can understand you. Kate, what does he want, we can’t get it?”. It turned up that he was German guy who writes a book. And he would like to ask us some questions. I asked what the book is about. He said it is about a woman who get divorce and decided to travel to Thailand to heal her emotions. So, he would like to know why we choose Thailand and what the most incredible thing has happened to us there. He had recorder and he recordered our dialog. During all this conversation I hesitated. Should I ask or I shouldn’t. Finally I asked if he read the “Eat, Pray and Love” book. He said: “No… What is it about?”. I explained that it is about a woman who get divorce, sell all her property and go travel to Italy, India and Indonesia. And right at that moment he looked so confused. He asked me what happened then and I gave him quick explanation. In the end of our talk he asked me “What is that book name, again?...”, “Eat, Pray and Love” – answered I and he went into crowd. I felt bad after that for some reason. It was like I destroyed his idea, his goal in a life :(( I hope he’ll change just some details and will continue to write this story. I wish I could to read it someday ) Because I took a little part in it creation.

What To Do And Where To Go? After a graduation the university I’ve got interested in English language. Not for work, not for some purpose, just for fun. I would like to say “for training my brain”  At first time I’ve listened different tutorials and watched tutorial videos. Then, for saving my interest in learning language, I started to watch my favorite TV shows and movies in English with Russian subtitles. After a while I discovered for myself many cool American and British video bloggers on YouTube. I understood about 75% what they said and liked it so much! A real person just now recorded a video from the other part of the world and I am able to watch it and partially to understand their thoughts! That’s awesome! At the summer time I realized that well, good, I can understand English speech. But I can’t talk in it! I haven’t practice my language with anyone. So, I went to speaking club in my city with native-speaker teacher. I liked listening foreign person in real. There weren’t any border between us. But when it took place for me to talk… well, there were a mess coming from my mouth (( In my head words sounded right, but in my speech it was all wrong. In my group there were about 12 people and all tasks were like “ask your partner…”, “answer your partner’s question…”, “(when we studied Future tense) tell what you will do tomorrow…” and etc. It was boring for me ( And more over it was not interesting for me to talk with Russians in English. After that experience I decided to improve my grammar. I went to other school where we had to learn all and only English grammar for 3 months. But it was not useful for me too. I felt that my classmates were on lower level than me (I realized that I was not good, but I compare with them I was better in language). We studied “there is/there are” construction for 4 lessons! I wanted to make clear for myself tenses, conditions, infinitives and other topics, but we studied basics. So, I know how to say “there is an apple on the table” ))) Now, I don’t know what to do and where to go. I feel that I’ve stuck on some level and I can not get higher  I appreciate your advice and help in advance

New life step Recently I've moved to a new apartment. I used to live with my older sister and now I live alone. It's a little wierd for me. I wake up in the morning and nobody takes the bathroom for 30 minutes )) I come home and nodody watches the stupid TV shows in the living room. I have to cook food by myself and I have to do laundry by meself too. By the way, I thought that the stories about missing socks are made up, but no! They are true! I had put 2 white socks to the washing mashine and one of them has gone! It's miracle! )) First time I lived without any media stuff in my apartment. No TV, no Internet connection. I just was wonder for how long I can servive like this... well, the answer is a week! Just one week )) I went crazy in silence. So, tomorrow my provider will provide the Internet for me. Yey! What plans do I have for the future? Well, I have to buy many useful stuff for making my place more beautiful, such as curtains, and carpets and pictures. Should I make a party becouse of my new place? Does that kind of parties have a name in English? :)