Art in Moscow

Hello everybody today I want to talk about galleries in the capital of Russia city Moscow. The State Tretyakov Gallery is one of the best-known picture galleries in Russia. It takes its name from its founder Pavel Tretyakov, a Moscow merchant. In the 19th century Tretyakov began to collect Russian paintings. He visited all the exhibitions and art studios and bought the best pictures. Little by little Tretyakov extended his interests and began to collect earlier Russian paintings. In 1881 Tretyakov opened his collection in St. Peterburg to the public, 11 years later he donated it to the city of Moscow. Since then the gallery has received hundreds of paintings from other museums and private collections. The Tretyakov Gallery reflects the whole history of Russian paintings from the 11th century to the present day.Also I'd like to tell you about the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. The building was built in Greek style by Roman Klein in 1898 - 1912 to house the Museum of Fine Art, founded by the initiative of professor Ivan Tsvetaev. Since 1937 it has been known as the Puskin Museum of Fine Art. It has one of the world's largest ancient collections of European art. At present the picture gallerey has over 2 thousand works of various schools of painting which helps us to understand and appreciate the variaty of painting styles from over the centuries.The Pushkin Museum pereodically holds exhibitions of the art of various countries and of individual outstanding artists of the past and present.

My family

My family is not very big, just a typical family: Dad, Mom, me, and my sister. My mom is fifty-seven, she is a student at Tacoma Community College. She is a good student. She has studying abilities. My Dad is sixty, he is a professional contractor he works for a construction company. My parents are separate, which is really hurtful. My elder sister Ludmila is thirty-five years old, she lives in Russia, she wants to be a teacher of history. She likes to read books on history and fiction. She is married and has four wonderful kids, Tatiana, Anatolie, Michail and Ania. Her husband Pavel is a supervisor at construction company in Russia. He is forty-six years old. I want them to come here, so we would live all together, but it is hard today to get here.

Summer Trip

In August 2009, my mom and I decided to go and visit my sister and our relatives because we did not see them for four years. We took a month vacation from work. First we went to Ukraine in city called SEVASTOPOL, where my aunt lives. Sevastopol is a big city, it has many beautiful parks, many beaches, and other attractive things. My sister came there two. We were excited to see each other, she is my only one and older sister. Then my mom, my sister, my aunt and I went to my home country Moldova. We went there to visit my other aunt and my cousins. It was the best summer I ever had, but I cannot express everything that I feel in my writing because I do not know how to say all those words. I had so much fun that summer when I was visiting my relatives.

Summer Job

Last summer year of two thousand nine, I was looking for a job. I could not find any jobs, I spent the whole June looking for a job. One day, I get a letter from Tacoma Community College which says that I am eligible for work study. I got excited, and the next I went to Tacoma Community College Financial Aid Building which is bldg. 18, to fill out applications. I wanted to work on the campus, so they gave a job in Tacoma Community College Children's Center as helper in the kitchen. I had to wash dishes and prepare food for children that went there. Then I got transferred to different position, which was children supervisor and teacher helper. I was supervising children ages 3-6. I like children,so I loved working there. It was an easy and awesome job for me. I worked there three months, it was a good practice and experience for me. Now when I see children from my group they always tell me that they missed me because I was playing with them, and they liked it. Also, the teacher that I was helping, told me that I am really good with them. I hope that this summer I will get work study too, so I would work in that Children Center again.

My first Car

It was two years ago in the summer. I was working in McDonald's and I was thinking about buying a car, but I did not the whole amount of money for the car. I wanted to buy Honda Civic or Acura Integra. One day I told my dad about that, to see what he will advise me. Next day he came up to me and told me that he will help to buy a car, and also he said that he already found a car for me. I was really excited when he told me that. Three days after on Saturday we went to Federal Way to take a look at the car that he was talking about. I thought that it would be Honda or Acura, but it was not any of those cars. It was a car of my dreams for that time Mercedes-Benz. I was eighteen years and I had a Mercedes. I did not even think about that my dad would find, and will help me to buy that car. I was really excited to have it as my first car. It was really nice inside and out.

What I have learned from EAP 98 CLASS? What I still want to learn?

It is almost the end of the quarter, one week left. This quarter I have learned a lot of things. I have learned how to write essays, which was really hard for me before. I have learned how to find a main idea, significant details, new vocabulary words, and how to understand organization, all of these I have learned from reading lab. The next things that I have learned were: what is thesis and how find a thesis, what is topic sentence and how to find a topic sentence, what is hook and how to find a hook, what is an outline and how to write an outline, what is organization of an essay and how to organize an essay, all of these I have learned in EAP 98 class which was really helpful for me. Also, I have learned how to avoid run-on sentences and how to fix them, where we should put comma, what is dependent and independent clause, where we should use quotations, semicolons, hyphens, dashes and other. I learned what is peer review and how to do it. The things I still want to learn are: how to correct the essays, and how to write an argumentative essay. In conclusion I would like to say that EAP 98 class was really helpful for me, and I want to say thank you to Monica Monk(our teacher) because she taught us all of these things, she explained everything clearly, she is the best teacher I ever had.

My country

The name of my country is Moldova. It is a small and really beautiful country that is located between Russia and Ukraine. Moldova has many lakes, forests and other things. There are many villages and cities. People that live in the village have fields with grapes. That is why Moldova is popular; from grapes people that live in the village make good quality and tasty wines. The capital of Moldova is Kishinev. It is a big and tourists- attractive city. Kishinev has many attractions, parks and it also has my favorite candy factory called “BUCURIA” which means happiness. Candies and chocolates from that factory taste yummy; I missed that a lot. People that moved here, in the United States, always ask their relatives from Moldova to send those chocolates and candies because it is the best for them. I wish that sometime people would open this factory here in Tacoma.