3. Special place

I remember that in childhood the most remarkable place for me was one park, which was close to my previous home. I don’t remember it in details, but I will try to tell you about this place

I was near 5 years old, and just opposite to my windows was quite a big park. Park was situated in ravine, and there was a plenty of trees. It was my favorite place to spend time in, although it was rather ugly. There was a pond in the middle of the park, but the water in it smells so terrible that it was not wise to go down to the water. I always spend time before afternoon there, when this park was full of different sounds, birds’ singing, and children crying, so I can’t say that it was calm and quiet. It was a kind of sacrificed place for me and my peers, I bet just because it was spacious and we can play wherever we want. Moreover, my mum hated this place, and we had a walk there not as frequently as I want.

I have no idea why it is special for me, but it was my first thought, when I read a theme of a blog. Now I go to this park very seldom, but every time I go, pictures from my childhood strike me. 

2. Free choice. Nothing original

          I really still have no idea, what I gonna write about. I suppose my post about music or cinema could seem a bit ridiculous just because I have no particular favourite music style or film.

As David asked me why I think Moscow is too fussy sometimes, so i suppose my second blog will be dedicated to my city. Maybe, to some extend  it would be interesting for a vast majority of my potencial readers, because a lot of my classmates have been living in Msk just for several weeks.

Metro in rush-hour

So, firstly, I really sometimes become fed up of living in Moscow and wanna move to any European calm country. People here are extremely quckly and even impudent, and Msk’s slogan is “who isn’t in time, those is late”. For instance, in subway approximately in 8-9 a.m. you will  with 100 per centage of probability see such a picture.  There are same thing in outpatients’ clinics, clubs, traffic jams.  Queueing up is part and parcel of living in a huge city, especially in Msk.

Secondly, what I want to say in my post is to recommend some variants how to spend an evening and where to do, but my pieces of advice don’t pretend to be a guidebook.

To start with, not taking into account Red Square and Arbat, having a walk along boulevard ring is essential I suppose as far as visiting some small parks as Neskuchii garden, skver u Patriarshich. They are very cute and lovely. Also now in September, as the weather allows, you can have a walk on a water bus along Moscow-river, and describing outdoors activities it’s worth mentioning Moscow Zoo. Personally, I don’t keen on zoos, but a hike there can be really entertaining.

I’m a theatre-goer, I try to be in theatre as frequently as possible, but there so many theatres in Msk, so it seemed to me that I haven’t visited even a half. My favourite  ones are Sovremennik and Vakhtangov’s one. And, no doubt, Bolshoy and Maly Theatres are the most famous ones.

Parks. They are no so well-equipped as in London or NYC, but they are full of quite antique architecture and look like green oasises in a loaded city. Futhermore, at weekend a lot of different activities are held, sometimes in can be even concerts.

Park Tsaritsino

Gipsy

And last but not the least part of my narrative is clubs and night life. Youngters can really party hard in Msk, moreover, they often start in pre-party places, for instance, such as the famous ones - Dendi Café or any restaurants by A.Novikov, and after this go to a club. Clubs are various that I don’t see any point in listing them. I really like Gipsy.

To sum it up, you can your own favourite places in Msk, that will match your taste and means. I didn’t mentioned musems or sport matches and so on, just because I think I have to fihish it up. I believe my post was at least a bit informative, and I bet you will enjoy these or other places in Moscow, even despite having a huge homework to do after comeback.

1.Self-Introduction

Hi, everybody! As it’s my first blog, I feel quite anxious about it, but I dare suppose it’s part and parcel of having such an experience. Having just read David’s post, I really found it diverting, so I will try to make something akin.

My name is Anna Nazarova. I was brought up in Moscow and have been living here for a whole my life. Honestly, I have quite ambigious thoughts about my city - I, no doubt, like my lifestyle in Msk, but also frequently I want it to be not so fussy.

Talking about my plans in future, I do want to start my career and carve a niche for myself, after getting my B.A. in Economics. During this class I want to practice speaking as much as possible, cause for me it’s one of the most essential part, I also obviously believe my speaking English is not brilliant enough. And the second but not the least thing is mastering a skill of creating not only essays and journalistic pieces and also CV, letter of application, etc. Briefly, I’d like this course to be as practical as possible.

In my leisure time, which I expect I won’t have as much as I had in school, I like first of all traveling, cooking and playing tennis. As my Mom has green fingers, gardening has become one of our family pastimes. Moreover, I am really into dances and going somewhere out with my pals, even some of them call me «culture vulture».

Well, I bet that’s all about myself, I do hope u enjoyed my piece!