The Gardening I am used to spending summer in my country house with my two children. This house is not so comfortable as my flat in a city, but I am ready to sacrifice comfort for other advantages. For example, we can get fresh air, spend all day outside, eat farmer's meat, milk and eggs. I have not got any animals, but we buy these products from neighbors. My children do many sports activities like riding a bicycle, a scooter and a skateboard, playing with a ball and playing badminton. When it comes to me, I am fond of gardening. I have not got "green fingers", like my mom, but I enjoy working with plants. I grow different vegetables, such as potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers, corn and zucchinis. I like to eat apples, pears and plums from a tree. I believe, that my fruits and vegetables are much more ecological then ones, that we can buy in a supermarket, since I do not use chemical fertilizers. I also like picking berries and mushrooms in a forest near my house. In evenings I fancy sitting with a good book on a swing in my garden and smell flowers. It is so relaxing!

The Dance Class (practicing new vocabulary) Two years ago I attended a dance class. I always wanted to dance salsa and finally decided to give it a try. At first I found it hard to move in rhyrhm to the music. I got discouraged and was going to give up dancing. But then I attended a salsa party and the view of perfect dancers inspired me. I decided to presevere with training and soon made slow progress. It helped me to get more determined to practise a lot and get better at dancing. In several months I was able to dance at salsa parties with any partner. I wish I had kept it up, but I became pregnant and stopped training.

Verbs + ing/to. Different meanings (exercise #8) to try I tried reading this book without a dictionary but it was difficult for me. I try to write at least one text every week. to remember I remember visiting the exhibition "The Art of Russia" last weekend. I should remember to cook a soup for my son this evening. to regret I regret not visiting a swimming pool last Tuesday. I regret to tell you that I cannot do it. to stop I stopped attending off-line English courses because learning language on Skype is more convenient for me. Please, stop to ran since I cannot speak with you while you are running. to mean If you give a birth to a child it will mean devoting him a lot of your time. I mean to improve my level of English this year.

The Babies’ Entertainments They say, that if you want to develop intelligence of your child, it is necessary to provide him sufficient amount of new impressions every day. That is why I try to not only play games and read books with my son but also find interesting places to visit with him. For example, last week we went to a swimming pool, attended a dogs and cats show and a classical concert for babies. I should say that my son is only 2 years old; therefore sometimes it is difficult to find an appropriate entertainment for such a small baby. Fortunately, there are several projects created for little children and their parents in our city. First of all, it is a swimming pool. Although it was our first visit, I am going to keep training there. There was a group of five mothers with their children. We did exercises. A trainer told me, that after a year my son will be able to swim on his own. I am sure, that swimming is a good sport for children, that helps them to get a perfect posture and develop their muscular system. When it comes to the classical music concert, it is another interesting project. The organizer created a series of concerts for babies by the name of “The Baby Concert”. Children could not only listen to live music but also move, crawl, dance. The host told a little story about each composition, gave suitable toys (like little birds, bells, paper leaves and so on) and suggested games. After the concert children had the opportunity to play such musical instruments like a piano, a violin, a cello. The both of us (my son and I) really enjoyed this concert.

The renovation of the Corporate Website In 2015 I was attending Internet marketing courses. My company paid for me, therefore after finishing these courses I had to renovate the company’s website to make it more user-friendly and easy to navigate through. I spent the bulk of my time studying how to make and effectively promote websites, prepare advertising and informational e-mails for our clients, work with Yandex and Google analytics, promote website on search engines, advertise products and services on social media, use contextual advertising and so on. Then I managed a project team, that was working on renovating our corporate website. This group included internal and external programmers, a designer, sales-managers and members of our management team. I created a new, more clear and simple structure of the site, wrote new texts for each page taking into account the principles of SEO, developed interactive forms for clients and organized photoshoot on the production facility. The designer created a new modern design for each group of similar pages, drew technical schemes and prepared all photos. The programmers installed a new template on the basis of WordPress CMS. After that, I filled pages with texts and pictures. All members of the project team tested the new website for workability and easiness to navigate through. After passing all tests I announced the renovation of the site to our clients. I can say, that we got many good reviews from them and the site traffic increased by approximately 20 percent within 6 months. Therefore I conclude that the renovation was implemented successfully.

Reconstruction of the Central Heat Supply Station (part #2) By that time a block heat supply station was manufactured at our production facility and delivered to the site for installation. The heat exchangers with a port diameter Du 250 (one of the biggest in the dimension range) were used for the production of these units. The manufactured units were so big, that it was necessary to partially dismantle them to move to the central heat supply chamber, although there are special assembly gates in this room. By the end of August, all the work connected with the installation of the block heat supply station, pipe fitting, heat insulation fitting, assembling of automatics and switchboards, connection to external heat networks was implemented. The workability of all equipment was checked.

The Santiago Way One of my dreams is to walk the Santiago Way. It is an old pilgrims’ route, which can be started in several different countries like France or Portugal, but the last part of this route always passes Spain. The way ends at Santiago de Compostela where the relics of Apostle James (or Santiago – in Spanish) are kept. To be honest, I am not very religious, but now this way has mainly philosophical and cultural meaning. Many people (more than 200 000 per year) walk the Santiago Way to spend some time by themselves thinking about important things, seeing beautiful views, visiting ancient towns and museums, meeting new people from all over the world. The route is well organized. There are many special hostels for pilgrims along the way. I watched the movie “The Way” (2010) about this route and also read the book “The Pilgrimage” written by Paulo Coelho. The most popular route begins in France, but it will take more than 30 days to walk through it. It is too long for me. Therefore, I chose the Portuguese route which passes along an ocean coast. It is much shorter (only 250 km).

Verbs + ing (exercise #7) 1) Yesterday I enjoyed watching the seventh season of “The game of thrones”. 2) I imagined living in the world of this TV series. 3) I think it would be quite difficult at first, but then I would get used to living there. 4) My favorite heroine is Daenerys, because she never gives up moving toward her goals despite any obstacles and at the same time she is very kind, gentle and feminine. 5) I suppose that watching this TV series in English is a good opportunity to practice listening. 6) I try to avoid using subtitles during watching movies in English.