Home, Evening

In summer my favourite time is twilight, when the air becomes cooler after a hot day, and the members of my family are preparing to sleep. I like to stay alone and see the sky, and listen to the voices of our neighbours talking about something, and to the crickets chirping in the grass.

Cyclying with my friend and my younger brother today was very nice! I enjoed fresh cool wind, twilight, dark night sky, and stars. I haven't ridden a bike for about two or three years, and this walk was my first one after such a long break.

A day and a half in our friends' countryhouse. Walking in the pine forest, gathering mushrooms, drinking tea with fresh mint.

Sunflower fields. The view from the bus window while going to the country.

It's raining now and for some reason I like it.

While reading 'Dombey and Son' I think how it would be wonderful to see England one day. Iwant to watch the film after finishing the book.

Summer & Home

I cooked a pie with raspberry today under he control of my granny, using the recipe told me by another granny. )) What made me do it? I'm really not fond of cooking... Maybe, "Anne of Green Gables" or my granny's phone call have inspired me to do this?))

I'd Like To Read

Lucy Maud Montgomery 'The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career': http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/montgomery/alpine/alpine.html.

I'm fond of "Anne of Green Gables" again. It reminds me last summer.

Exams are over

Hello, summer holidays!

Beauty in The Little Things

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An incredible sunset 

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Wild flowers that I found today behind the building of the university library where I was walking while preparing for an exam.

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A book by my favourite author that my friend gifted me before going home for the summer holidays (some of my friends have already passed all their exams).

The Victory Day. May 9th, 1945-2015

I think, it's one of the best and the most special days of year. And can you imagine that 70 years ago there was the same green grass and leaves, and flowers bloomed like today? It wasn't a black-and-white movie, it was a real life. We can imagine a beautiful spring days, but it's impossible to imagine the feelings and thoughts of those people who survived the hardest war and saw the Victory. We can't imagine and, maybe, we should not try because we won't be able to do this. We haven't such an experience and I do hope we will not have it. We can just try to be as good as it's possible because they payed the highest price for our lives. We can also pray for them and for us.

The monument on the Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow. 

Today morning the students of different departments of our University came to the church and after the service we got together to the Poklonnaya Gora where we made a small concert singing the songs of war years and dancing the waltz.

The Paschal Morning

The Paschal Sunrise

This year the service in the church was longer than usually, and, what's more, then we were invited to have a meal. So, about 6 a. m. we were going home, but before, one of our friends took us to the park near church and asked us to keep silent. And we heard the birds singing in the early morning, and saw how the sunrise was arising.

The mist above our town pond and the colours of the morning were wonderful. There were nobody at all, except of us. We walked about and talked, and I took some pictures, because I had a great wish to catch this beauty.

Christ is Risen!

This Pashal night I spent with my best friend. After the service and a meal we saw the sunrise in the park near the church. 

Kulichs made by my Granny.

Собор новомучеников и исповедников Российских/The Day of the Assembly of Russia's New Martyrs and Confessors

I don't know who is the author of this picture.

It looks like a country hose. How I wished to spend some time in a village at the beginning of winter!

Here I'am in our students' hostel again.

"Rossiya Molodaya" (Young Russia), 1981. The age of Peter the Great and the birth of Russian Fleet at the end of the 17th century.

One of my favorite films. It's a little bit strange but yesterday, after we had finished watching it with my mom, I felt more force for a new term. But... Why must it be strange? This film is about courage and patience. It inspires me to work, to study and to be patient, brave and strong. Oh... I don't know if I'll be able to become better, but I want to.

I like these socks knitted by my granny.

My attempts to make ones by myself were not successful.  At first, I lost one of my needles, and then, after I bought a new set, I forgot my knitting in the church...
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It's hard to be kind. You are always angry with those who aren't kind.

:)

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

The Words That I Like

How nice it is when my brother's godfather still brings a present for me on Christmas day, although I've grown up!

What Can I Say About The 2014?

1. I finished the first year at the university and started the second one. 

*And three days ago I passed the last of my winter exams.

2. I understood that my home is my treasure. Earlier I thought that I had no reason to love my town, but I was wrong. 

3. I had a wonderful birthday thanks to my friends.

4. I knew something about the philosophy and architecture :)