Visit to a sick friend

Everybody can fall ill with any disease. Fortunately, only cold and flu are quite frequent in our city among infectious illnesses. They are rather easy for the modern medicine and various pills can help you a lot in overcoming this trouble. But, of course, being sick isn’t a pleasant way of spending your time. In such situation friend’s participation in this trouble can encourage you, give you moral support and even can make yourself feel better. That’s why you always should visit your sick friends. You must remember that tomorrow this illness may happen with you.
I always try to follow this rule. Fortunately, my friends don’t fall ill frequent. But I remember such case that happened about 12 months ago. One of my best school friends had fallen ill with hard form of flu. Soon I went to his place to see him. I took some things that, as I was expecting, were interesting for him. Among them I brought a videocassette with best game moments of National Basketball Association. He was very glad for this present and soon we both were enjoying the outstanding games of the strongest basketball league in the world. Then I told him all last school news and everything about the material we had passed when he was absent. Then we tried to entertain ourselves and started to solve crosswords in the newspapers, to watch TV set, so we began to do all that everybody makes when he doesn’t know what to do. To my surprise, I lost the feeling of time and there was deep evening, when I understood, that it was a time to go to the home. When I was leaving for the home, my friend promised that he would be all right soon and he kept his word. In a two days he came to school and started to study various subjects with new energy. Sometimes a little interval is useful for a person. Modern medicine helps us a lot in a illness treatment. It also gives us many advises of how not to fall ill. Please follow these recommendations, and don’t be sick.

Books

Books can fit almost every need, temper, or interest. Books can be read when you are in the mood; you don't need to do it all the time. Books are both more personal and more impersonal than professors. Books have an inner confidence which individuals seldom show; they rarely have to be on the defensive. Books can afford to be bold, and courageous, and explanatory; they don't have to be so careful of boards of trustees, colleagues, and community opinion. Books are infinitely diverse; they run the gamut of all human activities. Books can express every point of view; if you need a different point of view, you can read a different book. Reading is probably the most important skill you need for successful studies. You will have to read lengthy assignments in different subjects with varying degrees of detail and difficulty. If you read inaccurately, you will fail to understand some of the information and ideas you read. If you read slowly, you will have to spent too much time reading your assignments and the rest of your work may suffer. Poor reading may be a problem for you, but it can be solved. Like other skills, your ability to read English fast and accurately demands careful instruction and purposeful practice. You must keep practicing on your own to improve your reading skills.

Sports in United States

Baseball is the most popular game in the US. It is played throughout the spring and summer by schools, colleges and professional teams. Football is the most popular game in the autumn. There are professional football teams in all the main cities of the United States. In American football there are eleven players in each team, as in the original football, but the rules are different. Players are often hurt in American football. So the teams wear special clothing and helmets as in hockey. Basketball is a very popular game in the United States too. It is especially popular in high schools, both among boys and girls. The game of golf is very popular with businessmen and professional people. It is played by both men and women. There are now more golfers than tennis players. Swimming, water skiing and skin diving are popular summer sports. In winter many people go in for ice-skating, skiing and hockey if they live in the Northern and Central states. Other sports include wrestling, boxing and horse racing.

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.