My Childhood Fairytale

This time I want to tell you about book and film series which I have grown up with. It is Harry Potter series. I really like stories and films about this boy. I was 7 years old when I saw “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” in the cinema for the first time. I was really impressed by it, so I ask my dad to go with me to a book shop and buy me “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” and “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”. Magical world, which every child can dive in with Rowling’s books, is fantastic. Now I have all 7 books about Harry in Russian. I have rereaded every book at least 3 times. By the way I have 2 first books in English. I downloaded the third book lately and I read it now. I think that books about Harry better to read in English than in Russian, because you can practice your language, find out new words and English isn’t difficult for understanding in these books, so you needn’t open a dictionary very often. Several times I watch films about Harry in English, but they are more difficult for understanding than books.

Kirov

I wanna tell you about Kirov city. It’s the place where I was born. It’s the place where I spent my entire youth. It is the place which is really special for me.
Kirov is located on the Vyatka River. This city has also been known Vyatka and Khlynov (the second variant is the elder one). My city is more than 600 years old.

For the past 18 years Kirov has become everything to me and there’s no place on earth that could be more important than my lovely hometown? My parents, friends, my boyfriend, my dog and cat, my flat, my street, my school, teachers and schoolmates – that’s what makes Kirov so special. And it also keeps lots of memories, such as walking through the quiet city streets, lovely parks, alleys, prospects, going to the cinema, theatres, museums, cafes and clubs.

Now I really miss Kirov. Moscow is absolutely different with its wide streets, enormous houses and skyscrapers.  There are too many people, it’s always noisy, wherever I am; I miss my parents and my boyfriend so much. I know my city quite well, but here in Moscow I don’t know a thing: which places are the best for visiting, eating, walking and so on.

A simply perfect gig

Last Saturday I visited one of my favorite band’s concert, which was held in «Masterskaya» club. The band is called «СегодняНочью», in English it means «tonight». I began to listen to this band one year ago, but almost immediately «СегодняНочью» became one of my favorite bands. They were formed in 2001 and they have released four albums so far. The concert atmosphere was wonderful, because sound and light brilliantly matched to each other and there were not too many and not too few people in the club. I really like their songs and in fact the leader of the band sings live much better than on the studio recordings. The band members talked to the audience really friendly, setting up an absolutely informal atmosphere. They sang nearly all of my most favorite songs such as «Rock-n-roll stars», «?»,  «Paparazzi» and so on.  I met a lot of new people on the concert, who loved this group as much as me.  I've been dreaming about seeing this band and my dream has finally become true and I'm so happy about that. After the concert I managed to get a couple of autographs from the band members. I really enjoyed this concert, and if I have a possibility to visit their concert one more time I will surely go to see them again.

My name is...

Hello, everybody. My name is Ira and I'm from Kirov. Now I live in Moscow and study at HSE. I finished my school named KELL in June 2012. I came in Moscow 2 weeks ago, now I really miss my city, parents and friends, in spite of a lot of my friends and classmates study in Moscow. Many of my schoolmates live in a dormitory in Odintsovo. There are 4 people in my room: Julia, Dasha, Nastya and me. We are all from KELL. Living with many people is new and unusual for me, but it is very interesting.
Many of my friends have stayed in Kirov, because they will have finished school by June 2013. I miss them all and I really hope that they will study in Moscow, because I can't imagine living without them very much.
I really like music and reading. From time to time I read english books, I've already read "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". In spite of reading books on this language, I suppose my English level is not high enought. So I hope that English lessons in HSE and NES will help me to improve my language knowledge.