I had almost never been abroad (Russia and Belarus don't count). When the day X came I had a wide range of feelings ranging from excitement to some kind of panic attack, since I had never traveled

It's interesting how some events can be ignored by the public. The only reasonable  explanation is that the people reading about them are far away and don't give a damn about what's happening on the

I started learning English. I was studying it day and night: on the subway, on the bus, during my breaks at work, on my days off and even Christmas and New Year's. There wasn’t a day that I didn't

If someone had told me 15 years ago that I would go to the states, I would've called that person crazy. All I knew in English was "My name is Alex" and "This is a table". I guess, if I'd said "I am