3.Cyprus

As it's a blog I will start without any long introduction and I will say just that there is no other place I can't live without but a famous island called Cyprus. I first visited it with my parents and I wasn't really impressed as the majority of time we stayed at the hotel. The next time I went there with a friend of mine and that was absolutely different! First of all, this place is full of really great people who are ready to help you, cheerful and always with a smile (so different from people here in Russia). Than it's a place where you yourself become just as Cypriots: happy, funny with no thoughts about any problems! I can't say that it's a good thing for the whole year as thanks to their insouciance they have an economical crisis at the moment, but anyway, when it's just for a couple of weeks at summer, there is no harm to you success in real live. On the contrary, this place makes you so relaxed and happy that you turn back ready to work hard after whole days just lying on the beach and whole nights partying. However you'd better not stay to long as we are very fast to getting used to the good things, and people who stay there for more than month then feel even depressed when they turn back to their native countries, I mean, to the real world. All in all, me and a friend of mine now have a tradition to turn back to this place every year, as it is so special: it has special smell, taste it is so different from all others and what is most important, in changes you!

2. Letters

Invention of the Internet has brought many new opportunities to our life. One of them is communicating without any barriers. Needless to say that it has so many advantages that without any doubt they overwhelm any drawbacks. However many people miss old times when people wrote real  letters. Despite the fact, that I was born after the invention of the Internet, and my whole conscious life I was using the Internet to contact people, I still feel that there is some special magic when  you receive a message written on a piece of paper. First of all, the letter is a result of someone's work. When you write on paper you think of questions, like "Why? What? Who for am I writing?". Consequently the letter is usually kind of essay that expresses feelings and thoughts of the author, but some short note used just to give some information. What is more letters are much more personal, it's much more reliable to put you worries into the letter to good friend but to put it on the Internet, even if it's direct messages. The third argument is quite subjective, but anyway I think that it is a great pleasure to hold in your hand a real letter, but to see what is written on the screen of your computer. I can say it for sure, as I have a tradition with a friend of mine and we write each other a letter per 2-3 month and I really love it!

All in all, I suggest everyone to try writing letters sometimes!

1. My story

My story started very simple, as many: in a maternity hospital on the outskirts of Moscow at 2 P.M. on 8th of december i was born in the young family of a doctor and in those day a programmer. The first conscious memories - is a tiny rented flat in an old house.

Then after a few years we moved to the bigger flat which I still remember as most of the memories from my childhood are connected with that place. It was here that I went to the first class of school № 1543, and here in our family was born my younger brother, Anatoliy. And then the whole stage of my growing up was connected with this district.

School

I studied always good, was a diligent and hardworking. However, I had never put to studing all the time, I have always  tried to leave time for, in my point of view, more interesting activities. And because of that from the early childhood I was learning painting, skiing, gymnastics, dancing, swimming etc.

Parents

My parents are wonderful people. I always tell everyone that I grew up in a very good family. My mom is half jewish half romani. She has finished medical university and till then she's been working as a doctor. My father is half polish, half russian and he finished mathematical university.

Continuation of the story you'll find soon on this blog...