8. Progress

Today our topic is our progress in the class ant I think it's quite easy to write about it as there are really a lot of things to tell. First of all, the biggest progress I have is the development of my writing skills, that is rather predictable, because this class is concentrated on the academic writing. I improved some grammar skills, fixed some constant spelling mistakes, but what is more important, I learned how to organize my essay correctly. Needless to say, that essay organization is one of the most important things in writing as it's one of those things a successful piece of writing can't be without. Moreover, there are some rules we haven't got in Russia and that's why I am glad we have a native speaker as our teacher. As to problems I still have, punctuation is quite difficult for me. First, I've never studied it before at school, as we didn't pay attention to it and punctuation mistakes didn't influence a grade of writing. Second, it has some similarities with Russian punctuation but it is still rather different and that's why I get lost sometimes and it seems impossible to me to write an essay with no punctuation mistakes. However I do make some progress in this field to. So I don't want many things to change in the next part of semester and I am satisfied with the progress I have.

6. School tradition

I'd like to tell about an annual concert that take place in our school every year at winter. This arrangement is called "English song competition" and its first aim firstly was improvement of our English language skills, but, frankly speaking, it's not why all the students take part in this concert. We all love to make a performance with our classmates and to compete with other groups. Actually, we don't just sing, we dance, we make some scenes, so, all in all, we are not really limited in what can we do and that's way some performances at thus concert are really worth seeing for everybody! But personally I love every song that take part in this arrangement as it's always funny. Preparation take much time and actually I am surprised every year that almost everybody takes part in this competition and even ready to sacrifice with his or her free time. But anyway, all the school live this tradition ant start inviting their performance from the very beginning of the year. And of course I love to take part in these concert and with my group even had prize-winning places twice. All in all, it's one it the things a liked the most about my school!

5.Key lost

It happened last day at Cyprus. Me and a friend of mine had been staying at one of those camp that is really easy to escape at night, so that was exactly what we did. We'd been partying all night, saying goodbye to all the friends there and to this place itself. Than, it was 5'o clock in the morning when we realized that we lost keys from our room in the hotel where the camp was situated. We starded looking for them, but it was impossible to find cause we've been like at 6 different places that night. What was surprising, everybody tried to help us at it seemed like the whole Limassol( town where we stayed) was willing to help us, as people stopped in the streets asking us whether we found it. But we didn't( so we came to our friends' from the camp room and slept there. Next morning we came for new keys and it appeared that we own some money for the keys to the hotel and we had no money left as we spent everything that rested the previous night. Luckily, we had some roubles but of course nobody accepted them, as unlike dollar, our currency is like nothing for foreign people. All in all, we found a guy who was ready to change it, but it took us many efforts. All in all, this story ended successfully and we were happy with that.

4.School time

Today I would like to write about school time as I miss it really much. I went to 3 different school and I do love people from each of them, but of course the strongest feelings I have about my last one. To tell the truth, I'm not one of those people whose first aim at school is studying and who love school because of lessons. (Actually I  still don't get why I needed more than half of them). However, I have always understood the importance of learning and I had good marks, but it's not what I'm talking about now. Doubtless, school is all about people! So, it's exactly what I liked at my last school, there is no other place where you can meet so many great people and that made some special atmosphere there. I love almost everybody I've got acquainted with there no matter how well I know them, and, for sure, there are some people from this school I will never forget. I hope, that it will stay like this for a long time, despite the fact that, of course, I would like to have new friends here, at the university. But, anyway, there must be reasons of existence of the saying: «An old friend is worth two new ones». In addition, as a picture gives twice as much as verbal description, I will post some photos.