Describing a place I travelled to.

Not so long ago I went to Ilmensky reserve, situated in the Urals, among the finest of the Ural Mountains. Ilmensky reserve is world famous for its flora and fauna. Also it’s famous for its huge variety of minerals and colored stones.

In Il'men Reserve there are over 5000 species of plants, 1500 of animals and 700 different mineral and precious stones. There is the perfect lake, called the same, with very clean water.

The air in these places an unusually fresh and pleasant, and most importantly very useful to human nature organism. Harmony nothing breaks, namely, in Il'men preserve banned all the good of civilization. There is no electricity in the most distant and wild areas is prohibited riding mashine. And that's right!

Ilmensky Reserve has a century history. The first decree on the construction of the reserve has signed yet tsar Alexander the First. Most number of foreigners consider it necessary to visit this wonderful place. For more than a hundred years in the reserve had been created all conditions for the reception of thousands of tourists. Rock climbing, hiking, fishing, fire is only a small part of what may try the tourists.

Currently, reserve protected by the government and UNESCO. Most of the plants and animals listed as endangered. I really liked this wonderful place and I hope in the future again to visit it.

 

About sports I’m most keen on

Sport is an important part of our life. It allows us to have a healthy body and spirit, makes us to develop a strong will and helps to have a good time. In my life there were many interests, including sports. I am keen and fond of still different kinds of sports, from football and chess and ending poker. No most interesting and fascinating view sport for me was, is and will be football.

I love to play it with friends, and sometimes even stuffed a ball when nobody net. I have, incidentally, pretty well.In basically I put on a defender or goalkeeper, as I protect unstoppable.

Basically I play football in the summer, a large stadium near house. No winter and I have an opportunity to play when my friends call me to the gymnasium.obtained that I play football all year round!

In football more than a century history. Its common knowledge that he was born in England in 19 century. The first balls were made from bovine bladder, instead of spikes hammered into the boots are the real nails. So time football has developed and now we have the balls for the last word technology and comfortable sports gear. Once every 4 years the football fever seizes the entire world, when the championship of the world and Europe.Its real football feast!

Football is a fantastic and dynamic game, connects millions of people across planet. It gives people the sea of emotion and positive. To play this incredible (потрясающую) game is nothing but a ball do not is what makes her so accessible to many people.

Football is a great sport that unites generations. So, I’m not a sportsman, but sport is important for me.

My former and present habits.

Absolutely everyone on this planet has various habits. Each person has their own, certain habits, unlike the habits of other people. Habit emphasizes (подчёркивают) individuality, it can tell a lot about person’s character, his behavior in society. We don’t choose these or other habit, they come with us on an unconscious (бессознат.) level.

And I have a few habits, perhaps useful, perhaps amusing (забавный) to others. For example, I like very much to drink tea and I do it up to ten times a day.

My first habit is something I always like to re-check the work done. Maybe it takes away precious (драгоценное) time, but it saved me not once from accidental (случайные) errors, and warned me of the different effects.

The second my habit probably developed by my parents is accuracy. I will stand on a spot (не сойду с места) unless I reach a goal. Yet it can be called a sense of purpose (целеустремлённость)... Many people call it a character trait (черта характера), but I call it a habit, a very useful habit for me!

And the last one of the most essential (важных) and mattered (значимый) habits is love of cleanness. I always follow the order, don’t like when an excess speck (лишняя пылинка) detects. I make my neighbors to respect my habit, and they help me to wash our flat, so we live in full.

I’ve told you about my habits! I have some other good and bad ones, but I haven’t noted them, as they are too usual and ordinary.

If I won first prize in a lottery.

If I won first prize in the lottery, the first thing I would like to do is to buy a gift for my mother, something about she always wished. And then I would start to think what I can do with money. It depends on amount of it. If it’s not a large sum, I would organize a party for my friends, because it’s very important to keep a good and cheerful mood. I would also make presents for all my good friends and relatives because I love them and I’m glad when they are happy. If the sum is large enough to buy an apartment or a house, I would do it without any delay because I would need it after graduating from the university. Then I would buy everything that is necessary to develop. Then I would buy a car, a cottage. Also I would buy some less significant (important) things like books or engineering techniques, and so on. If I had all the enumerated things, I would go for a journey. I think that needs of a person grow with increasing of his possibilities, so I could imagine a lot of applications (использования) of money. But at this moment I think that my present financial position is enough for me.

A day trip.

Once I had a trip to village Konstantinovo, a motherland of great Russian poet Sergey Yesenin. It was a wonderful and really beautiful place. Konstantinovo is situated on a high picturesque bank, where a magnificent sight appears from. There were very nice cottages and streets, a lot of beaches and bushes [bu:] (кустарник). And I also liked that there were a lot of wattle (плетёных) fences. I visited a house of Sergey Yesenin. It was very interesting to look how his family lived. The manor (особняк) was a log house (бревенчатый) and situated in the centre of village. I also visited a house of Lidiya Kashina, who was the prototype of the main heroine [hәrәuin] of Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina". There was an interesting planning of a building. There was one central room with stair and other rooms were displaced around it. In the village there is a museum exposion devoted to work of a poet.

And, of course, there was a wonderful countryside. Oka river has a very beautiful bank there. There were also hills from which I could see unbounded spaces of fields and meadows. I was admired of the Konstantinovo and I thought that if I lived there I would write poems too.

 

Relationships and marriages.

For a long time marriages were inviolable (нерушимый). Weddings made in churches and marriages were considered to be made on heaven. Nowadays people don’t consider marriages to be so serious and there are many divorces at present. As for me, I think that marriage is a very responsible step because you must care about your wife or husband and honor of the family. You should pay attention to one another so that people live in harmony and take a care. Marriage is a serious step in life and requires a lot of courage and responsibility from the person who makes such a decision. The majority of couples think that the desire and passion in love are enough reason to turn a new unknown page in there future.

You also need to have a good job as a source of profits to keep your family. And, of course, you must be not too young for a marriage.

To my point of view young couples who decide to marry early don’t have enough consciousness (осознание) to realize what they are doing. Only some young people can say that they are ready for a long relationship with the beloved one. I think that an optimal age to get married is 23 – 25 years old.

I hope that my future marriage will answer all my wishes and I will have an enduring happy family.

 

Five senses.

All people have five senses: sight, taste, smell, touch and hearing. Let’s see what possibilities we have due to (благодаря) them.

Sight is the sense that gives us much more information than other four. It helps us to orientate ourselves in space, to discern (различать) different objects, to watch what is happening around us. Sight allows us to read, to write, to work on a computer and many other things which are very important for us. Taste is a less informative sense. It allows us to enjoy taste of food or to determine whether it is tasty or fresh. Smell allows us to determine a freshness of provisions. It helps us not to poison ourselves by something bad. It also allows to enjoy pleasant smells and to determine unpleasant harmful substances like gas. Touch allows us to feel warm and cold, to discern hard and soft and so on. With its help we can feel discomfort and pain that keeps off danger. Hearing allows us to hear what is happening around us, to communicate with other people by conversation, to listen to music and so on.

Of course, this is only a small part of possibilities that our senses give us, so they are very important for us. And it’s a pity that some people are devoid of (лишены) any of them.

 

Recent changes in my life.

The main recent change in my life is my entering the university. It caused many other less global changes. Of course, the first of them is a change in my way of living. I had to move into a hostel. Firstly it was a bit difficult to be completely independent, but later it became easier, more pleasant and even fun. But it is a little strange for me that now I’m a guest when I arrive home, but I can’t say it’s unpleasant.

Secondly, I’ve got many new friends. I’ve never had such a broad sphere of communication although I’m not too sociable person.

Thirdly, I have acquired some duties like cooking and washing and I need to be more responsible to people. In the nearest (ближайшее) future I'm planning to earn on the side (подрабатывать). Most likely as tutor.

And, of course, the main thing, for which I entered the university, is study. It changed too: now there are no so many boring and unnecessary lessons which I didn’t like at school. I can’t say that all the subjects now are very interesting for me, but in some measure I’m interested in all of them. I like my study and all my university life at a whole. I think I’ve made right choice.

 

Being alone for 100 days.

If I had to be alone for 100 days I think I would be depressed. I hardly can be alone for a long time, I almost always need dear people next to me. So I would never start such a trip by myself. But if I had to do it, on being sad and crying I would have a time to think about my feelings. I would take some things with me which would help me to go through this horror.

Firstly, I would take my mp3-player. I can't live without music. I would also take a photo album with photos of my loved people.

At third, I would take with me books which I wanted to read for a long time but did not have enough time or possibility for it. I would take a paper, pens and pencils to write down my reflections (размышления): who knows, maybe I would to be a founder of a new direction in philosophy after being alone for 100 days.

And, of course, I would take some items for maintenance (поддержание) of hygiene ['haid3i:n] and some clothes. That's all. But I hope that I will never have such a voyage.