I am looking for help with IELTS! Feel free to coment on! The pie chart shows the reasons which caused decreasing in productivity of agricultural land. It consists of 4 parts. First and foremost, overgrazing, which takes 35% out of all. Then we have deforestation (30%) and over-cultivation (28%). 7% goes to other factors. The table shows comparison of the factors described above, which destroyed lands in North America, Europe and Oceania. Over-grazing became the most harmful issue for the nature and in a short period of time throughout 1990’s caused significant degradation of land from 1.5% in North America up to 11.3% in Oceania. The second worst reason was deforestation with 9.8% impact in Europe and much far less percentage of influence in other geographical regions. The third reason – over-cultivating – had a zero impact in Oceania, but at the same time the highest impact compared to others in North America and the average in 7.7% in Europe. With 23% in total Europe was the most degraded in 1990’s. In contrast to this North America had only 5% of degraded land. Thank you for any correction!

Availability of Ideas A few days ago a great idea came to my mind. Well, not "idea", not "afflatus".. HOW available knowledge has become?! Years ago a person with a high education was a specialist. If you had a Degree you were well-paid professional, a person who supposed to move a progress forward... (As I see it) But now the level of high education has been shifted down and a Diploma just means, that you are a person with a certain amount of knowledge, absolutely interchangeable on a person with the same Diploma. But the best thing is that ideas become SO available that being a motivated and interested person you easily can get a great self-education! Our parents probably couldn't even wish to have this wide range of opportunities.. This nice idea came to my mind when while browsing Internet pages I found "13 ideas" which Bill Gates had found "worth to spread". So simple and so true. Have a good day! (corrections are more than welcome)

The Trip to The Russian Border by bikes So, we are back! I've written about my plans to take a nice biking trip to the Russian border and now I'm glad to let you know that the trip is successfully completed! Instead 106 km which we had planned we made only (only??) 94 km in two days. We started from the University around 11 am, before we had cleaned our bikes with environmentally friendly soap and oiled chains. Our group consisted of 8 driver and a ninth guy with a car. We were lucky to have have in our disposition the car! We left everything we needed just in the evening in the trunk and didn't care anymore. Roads in here are very well, snow had melted at least a week before our trip. Now probably no one could explain why we turned to a field... You could see the place on the attached map (I called it "cross country)! The field was totally under water and the ground was as an porridge! And for sure there is no explanation to washing and polishing before the trip!.. :) We turned back soon. The weather was just perfect - sunny spring Finland. First 15 km were easiest (except cross country part) and finally we came to the Horse Farm. There we stopped for a while to take a rest and to ride horses. Well, as it turned out, riding was very very cold and horses were very high :) Anyway I've got nice experience. That day we had done 53 km before we reached a shelter right on the Russian border. We were able to watch fantastic partly green landscapes, enjoy driving on deserted roads and take some pictures with broken ice covering channels on background. At sunset we stopped to have some meal in the Laplandia market (no idea why this name were chosen). The only one thing they had for us at that time was soup with salmon, which was very tasty and even 10 times tastier after 50 km! At the time when we reached shelter the sauna was ready for us. Tired but happy we spent some time playing games and finally went to sleep... Next day brought us early rise and 41 km more! First of them were unbelievably difficult, but after breakfast in the Laplandia market we got used to pedal... and pedal... and pedal... We changed the route and almost all day long were driving among the channel. When we arrived back to the city we bought ice cream and motionlessly sitting on benches were eating them. Sun was shining and everybody was proud! :) We finished our trip with cleaning and oiling, of course! I'm looking forward to a next trip! What could it be?.. (corrections are more than welcome)

Foreigners speak Russian (2) Hello hello! I've written an entry about my coming video today (I'm making video with foreigners speaking Russian). I've chosen a poem which is famous among Russians and was written a long time ago. I'm not so sure that the poem will be read properly as a poem should be read, but it's not the point! I just want to have fun and nice recorded memories. So, just now I completed third part of it (out of 6). My third movie star was a Finn, one representative of that nice peculiar nationality that I've already written about. Since we are in Finland, I asked the Finn to chose a place at the University which he would prefer to shoot the part. He suggested us to go to the Environmental Engineers guild room, which he belongs to. There was nobody and the room was full of amusing useless things (those things that we put everywhere to keep memories). We made the video there. The Finn could pronounce almost everything very well thou he had a couple of problems with "Sh" and "Zh" sounds. Nice! :) So, I hope to complete everything this week and show you. Would you like to watch it?? :) (corrections are more than welcome)

Foreigners speak Russian Hello everybody! Now I'm surrounded by foreigners everyday, which is quite interesting experience! One hundred days passed and in front of me just 50 days left. Everyday I meet something new or just different from my own culture. And a few days ago I came up with idea to make a little funny video. I ask some friends of mine to speak Russian in front of my camera. Then I'll add all parts together and will get Russian poem. For now I've made two parts out of six. Both Hungarian and Mexican friends very nicely pronounce Russian lines. Will write about how it goes later. Would you like to watch this video? :)

challenge yourself! Pam pam! Tomorrow at 8 am I have to be at school! Hiking club is organising biking trip to the Russian border. It's not that far, but total number of done kms to the end of the second day should be close to 106! Let's try! I used to ski for a quite long distance (now I can say so) and that time I liked the morale so much! You feel astoundingly when you've done something what you couldn't even imagine before! We are group of 10 people and 6 nationalities. We have bikes, helmets, some chokolate plates. Rock your boat! Hope the wind will be favorable and the mood will be fighting! Ciao! Wish us good luck! (corrections are more than welcome!)

How to avoid stress Today I've watched a nice presentation made by my classmates. They were telling us how to avoid stress (or to handle it if you can't avoid). They introduced main points about what stress is. It's not as simple as we usually think. If you are stressed you won't be able to sleep well, to eat enough, to enjoy you hobbies and everything else that makes you feel good. Or vise versa. Stress even can cause abnormal blood pressure, heartbeat and cancer as worst. There are some easy rules which can actually help: 1. To avoid stress you shouldn't forget rest enough. Spending time with friends or playing different sports would be right solution. 2. 8 h sleeping during the night never was canceled. It makes you fell more active and lively. 3. Eating good food at the right time is also necessary. And as my friends suggested, if none of listed above helps, then go to YouTube and watch video with baby pandas starring. It works every time! So, have a nice day, sleep well, eat enough, watch pandas! (corrections are more than welcome :) )

"Deaf" theater The word "deaf" is a bit stronger than a word I would prefer to use here. But the definition fits quite well. There is a very nice theather in Moscow. The troupe consist of 4 actors and all of them can't hear from the time they were born. They play silent plays, but full of music and emotions. They "translate" great songs and stories into sign language which is so impressive and beautiful that nobody are left indifferent. Once I found out some information about this theater and since that time I became the loyal fan! Have you ever heard about "sign language"?! You have to find out more! It's beautiful, it's a different world inside our world. It has to be known! I've watched the play 6 or 7 times and I'm going to watch it again. I can't express it, you have to try! :)

Sport makes my mood I wouldn't say that I do do sport. Sometimes I jog or bike or go to a gym. That's it. But I've been doing sport actively for 3 last months. I've bought sport card using which I was able to attend as much sport classes as fits to my schedule. And the more I attend the cheaper each single class becomes. It works! That's not the reason to do sport, but that's the story how did I get used to do sport 2-3 times a week. All activities that are included in my sport card are different, but almost all of them are quite tiring. But how good is the feeling, that one, when you just finished your exercises, when you are tired and proud of yourself at the same time! That moment when you proved yourself that you can do it. It's what one has to do. Today I attended last class this spring. And it's challenge! I have to keep doing sport without any cards :) Let's see how it will be. I'll try to do my best! As Germans say: Sport treiben - gesund bleiben!