Saturday, February 3 I was planning to write here every day, 1 day in English and one day in French, but it seems like my plan was too ambitious for me and I'm too busy for everyday entries. Despite this, I will try to write as often as possible. Last few days I was working on an illustration project, going to life drawing session and celebrating mum's birthday with some cakes and strawberry tea (yay I had day-off!). Was playing with Duolingo English-French course and it was not awful. Actually, I was able to even correctly say phrases in French (it has speaking exercises). I should read entirely a children book in French which I suddenly received from my relatives from Canada recently. I think this month will be enough for me if I try to organize my time really well. Also, I want to read a book about illustrators from British Council Ukraine, but I don't think I'll have time to read it entirely this month since I have a lot of work to do and it's only 28 days in February.

Lundi 29 janvier Salut! Je m'appelle Anastasia, je suis illustratrice. Je viens d'Ukraine. J'ai étudiée le français à l'école d'étude approfondi de langue française. Nous avons été la moitié des matièrs en ukrainien et la moitié en français. Mais j'ai déjà tout oubliée. Aussi près de chez moi il y a une école franсophone, avec des enfants francophons. Je vais essayer de mener ici un journal des événements. Aujourd'hui, moi et mon copain, nous sommes allés au cinéma pour un film sur le sculpteur Auguste Rodin. Le film était en français avec sous-titres ukrainiens. Nous ne savions pas que ce serait comme ça. Par les rires nerveux dans le hall, je me suis rendu compte qu'il y en avait beaucoup comme nous qui ne le savions pas. Mais ce n'était pas vraiment écrit dans l'annonce de l'événement. Pour moi, ce n'était pas un gros problème, mais mon copain ne sait pas absolument le français. Pendant tout le film, il a lu les sous-titres. C'était difficile pour moi de lire les sous-titres, j'ai une vue mauvaise. J'ai dû essayer de comprendre le discours français. Cet événement été organisé par l'Institut Français d'Ukraine. il y avait beaucoup de francophones.

First entry. Saturday, January 20 Hi! My name is Anastasia, I live in Kyiv - the capital of Ukraine and work as a freelance illustrator. Recently, I received a Bachelor degree in Art Education. I need to improve my English writing skills, so I decided to keep something like diary here. Not with thoughts and emotions, that's too personal and not necessary to achieve my goal, but with a 'where I went, what I did during the day' stuff. This week I was going to a sketching session. We were drawing a model with clothes in game style. Usually, on sessions like these, you can draw only naked people but this last session was in the other place and run by other people so we were drawing a model in clothes and it was awesome! I really liked it, more than life drawing session that I visited this autumn. But I still need to learn how to draw figures (naked and in clothes) so I will be going to both events. Today I was drawing an illustration to order. Unfortunately, I got up late and because of this, I didn't have time to finish it in watercolor. But it's okay, I'll get up early tomorrow and finish it.