7. Consequences of the first half of the semester.

  Today is the 22th of October. I have lived in new city and studied in new atmosphere for almost 2 months. There are many things that I have learned in this new life.
  I think the most important my achievement was adaptation to new life. I have got used to life without parents and any other people who can support me. I have got used to this fast speed if life, these far distances, these sleepless nights and constant process of studying. I am just starting to use time management because sleepness nights will have very bad consequences for my health.
  The second big achievement for me is improvement of my reading and writing skills in English. Improvement of reading is a consequences of enormous amount of literature which I have read on my English and Sociology courses. Reading for my English course taught me to identify the main parts of the text and answering the questions after each text helped me to understand them in a prover way. Improvement of writing is a consequence of several sleepness nights of writing and correcting my assignments and also of previous 6 blogs.
   I think the most useful thing that I learned during this period was features of English punctuation. The most amazing information was the 'Oxford' comma because we haven't this kind of comma in Russian.
   Writing assignments was the most difficult kind of homework for me, especially descriptive essay. I simply couldn't find the features of person's physical appearance. That is why I had very low marks for draft #2, but after reading David's comments I understood my mistakes and completely rewrote my essay and then had a few higher mark. I read in the list of blogs' topics that we will write argumentative essay. I want to write it as better as possible because I really want to heighten my overall grade.
   In the second half of semester I want to learn how to study other types of assignments and write many blogs on different topics. I think it will be very interesting.

6. Evalution of the small society.

  The small society consisting of inhabitens of room №C202 appeared in the morning of 27th of October. I arrived to the cultural centre of HSE on about 10:00 A.M. without any idea who to live with. All my friends from Voronezh, mostly girls, had arrived at 7:00 A.M. and they were going to get directions to their room in dormitory. I received a ticket with numder 715 and understood that I would get my directions at about 7 o'clock P.M. or even later, so I had enough time to find people who I wanted to live with. And then I saw Gleb and immediatelly understood that I to live with him. He was from Novosibirsk, and I was acquainted to several people from with town, so we started to seach for them. After 5 minutes of searching we founded Anton, then Alex, Telman and Ilya and we all made a decision to live together. My friend from Voronezh gave me ticket with number 400, so my new neighbours and I got our directions much earlier than we had expected. After an hour of travelling to Odintsovo and another hour of registration and getting our bags to the 20th floor we gathered in kitchen and met a question: 'What are we going to eat?' I had a pocket of buckwheat, so I cooked it and we all had a supper.
  After a few days we saw our other neighbours, Suren and Vahe. During the next we had nothing to learn, we were just walking in our area, talking and playing cards in the evenings. We have seen our other neighbours, Suren and Vahe. We were cooking together. If someone were cooking, he was cooking not for only him but for several people. We had two big refrigerators, but used only one, because of not having much food and especially because of the fact that everyone ate not only his food but the food his neighbour. It was very effective: someone cooked and all ate, then another someone cooked and all ate. It was just like a tribal community when everyone shared with each other.
   Then the studying began. From day to day we had more and more homework that is why all of us had a little amount of time for cooking and talking. No one wanted to go to supermarket and cook for everyone. In the middle of September we decided that one refrigaretor would be 'private'. It meant that no one could eat food from this refrigaretor if he hadn't put this food to it. All agreed. After one week 'common' refrigerator became empty, and 'private' one became overfilled. We were spending more and more time studing and were speaking two or three phrases while studing. Our started to look more capitalistic than common, and I think it is ineviatable way over every society.
   Today Anton looked in the empty second refrigerator and suggested to make it private too.

5. Just happiness.

    Twentieth of August. Warm summer day. In the morning of that day I was thinking it would one of those summer days: purposeless walking in the downtown, sitting with one and the same people in boring cafes and  talking about nothing. In those days the one thing I was thinking about was my future life. I couldn't stop thinking about university, new people, process of learning. I was thinking my early life as about something ended.
     So in this mood I went out of my house, walked in the downtown and then about 10:00 pm. As usual my friend Mark, his girlfriend and I went to her house and startes talking. Suddenly, she made a suggestion: 'Let's act a scene. I will be a client in cafe, you, Mark will be a waiter and you will a singer. Sing something romantic for us.' I started snapping my fingers and singing 'Sex bomb'. Their nice scene became nice dance. Little rain started. I was singing and clicking, and they were dancing and kissing. Then were 'She's a lady','She loves you', 'Twist and shout' and 'Girl'. They were dancing under the rain. It was like a scene from a film. They were happy. I was happy too. Maybe it is the happiest moment in life.
     Now I am living in another city, communicating with new people. I have started livind this new life, and .... it is not as good as I have expected. Maybe it is only beginning. And now I am starting to understand how happy and stupid I was. 

4. Individuality vs. relations.

  Success. The main thing that all people want today is success. Almost everyone wants to have a lot of money, expensive cars, houses, holidays on the beach near the Equator and many-many other things which is considered as parts of "good" life.
  There are many ways of becoming successfull. I don't want to write about all them ( and in fact it is impossible). But almost each of this ways can be divided into 2 groups: success with somebody's support and success without any of it. People from the first group are usually very good politicians, because they should making more and more relations, often flatter and lie to many people. They are very sneaky. When they have difficulties, they often need sjmebody's help, because they can't solve their own problems. They got used to solving them by somebody else, not by themselves. People who achieve success by the second way are usually rather intelligent, stubborn and actually less successful. It can be seen especially in Russia. It is very big problem for whole nation. Many clever russias live in other countries, because living conditions in Russia for people are very awful. There are many barriers for people, who want to create their own bussiness.
  In reality, to be successful person should be rather clever and be a good politician to make relations with his/her partners. Onlythose persons can become successful in life.