9. Topics for blog #9.

1. Have you ever earn money by yourself? What was you first job? If you don't have such an experience, when are planning to start working?
2. Who should pay in restraurants: a man or both man and woman?
3. What is your first memory about anything? Something what you really remember not from photos or videos?

8. The story of one party.

  I really like the topic of Ivan Mozharov about party. I can't chose the only "best party" because I had rather big amount of them during last 2 years. But I chose one very interesting and rather unusual.

   During the last days of May 2011 my friends and me were passing there last exams. My friend Anthony had had rather attractive idea to make a party in his dacha after all exams would be passed and we all would be free. So in the morning of the day of the last exam (it was 31st of May) he decided to make it even in that day. I should talk more precisely about the morning of this day. The last exam was economics. I hadn't been preraring for this exam because the level of economics in my school weas really lower than one in the courses connected with HSE. So I came to exam, got the first available ticket, passed it and after passing my teacher told me that she wanted me to be her assistant on the exam. So, I had rather big amount of free time (I didn't know in that moment that I would have a party in the evening of this day) and I agreed. It was really funny to listen to my classmates who didn't know anything of economics, but wanted to get A. I was rather kind assistant and put A's to them all.

  Eventually, in 2:00 p.m. I was free but rather tired. I came home, ate and then suddenly I got a call from Anthony. He said that I should buy alcohol and in 2 hours I should be in the bus station. He made rather good arrangement: there were 7 people: one (Anthony) should have got keys of dacha from his father, two (Steven and Michael) should have bought meat and other food, two (Kostya and Dima) should have bought beer, and the last two (Andrew and me) should have bought something harder than beer. I phoned Andrew and he said that he would buy his part alone. So, I got my camera, bought whiskey and came to the station in time. We sat to the back of the bus and started singing songs. Eventually, we came to right station. The funny thing was that driver told us when we were going out of the bus, "Don't drink too much".

  The worst thing of this dacha is that you should go from the station to the house for about 40 minutes. So, we came, threw our clothes and ran to the river Don. All this was rather funny and something like brotherhood holiday but not the party. We swam, returned, made a bonfire, cooked meat, made a banya and started swelter. We just had fun, drank a little bit of beer. The midnight was near and we decided to go out of banya, sat in the table and precisely in midnight started drinking for the coming summer. In that moment I remembered that I got a camera with me. I found it and started shooting videos. In about 2:00 a.m.Andrew suggested to go to the forest, make a bonfire and sit and just telling stories. But I found that Michael (another one, not ne) wasn't able to go anywhere, so Steven and I decided to stay at home and protect him of breaking something. In that moment I found that was absolutely tired, so I made an arrangement to Steven do it alone. I fell to the bed and slept immediately.

  Morning... In the morning I found that other four people really came to the forest and was even sitting there for some time. And, unfortunately, Michael broke tap. We ate the last peaces of meat, and went to the bus station. It was the first day of the summer, very hot day. The worst thing was that it was my fault that I allow Andrew to buy alcohol by himself because he bought "not very qualitative" one. So we all had enormous headache. Eventually we came to this station and started waiting for the bus. We thought it would come in ten minutes, but it came after an hour of waiting. And we found ... that the bus broke down and wouldn't drive us to the town. We stayed alone in prairie. We decided to go the nearest village. We spent another hour on that travel. Eventually, we found a shop in the village and in that time Anthony's father drove and carried us all to the town.

  Not very interesting story. But I decided to write about it because it was unusual for in those time. Other parties were "real" parties with loud music and girls. But that one was very cozy and unforgetable.
  Thank you for attention.

7. Fashion is my profession.

  I really liked topic of Ksenia about fashion. I want to share my thoughts about this "social institution".

  Firstly, the title of this post. I have seen this phrase several times (it was written in Russian letters) in stupid pictures in the Internet in which people (especially girls) were laughing at other people because latter were trying to wear fashionable ctothes, but the outcome of their efforts was just a look of clown. Yes, I agree, this people are rather stupid. They are watching TV, reading fashionable magazines and dreaming of "beautiful life" with expensive cars and clothes. And of course, most of them don't have money to buy all these things. But people are trying to be more than they are in reality. Men are painting their cars and fasten some useless, but fashionable things to them. Women are buying expensive cosmetics and expensive dresses only because in the depth of this dress is writen a phrase "made in Italy". And they are really glad to know that their dress is from Italy (which is very doubtful) and maybe Angelina Jolie once wore the same dress in one of her numerous ceremonies. One week ago I was searching for watch. When an shop assistant was presenting me one watch, she added, "This is Spanish brand. The official face of this brand is Christiano Ronaldo". And what? Should I like it more if Ronaldo once made few photos with several watches of this firm? I can bet he didn't wear watch of this brand more than 2-3 times because he have enough money to buy Rolex or something in this price level. I admit that he is one of the best footbalists of our age, but this fact didn't affect on my choise to buy or not to buy that watch. But, I think I am a small exception from boys of 15-20 who know Ronaldo. Especially youngest ones. They didn't earn money, they don't know what is the price of money which their parents give them everyday. And of course, in age of 12-14 teenagers want to stand out of the pack and make everybody know that they are wearing watch from Ronaldo. It isn't a big problem if parents have enough money to but it, but it becomes a big problem when the family is poor and children after watching fashionable shows on MTV wants to be equal to those people from the TV. Once I read about sad story in which daughter was shouting on her mother because she refused to buy her Iphone and suggested to by something less expensive because they didn't have money for Iphone. The daugher started threatening to leave mother and go live somewhere with her friends. And the mother surrendered and boughts this overestimated device. Sad story.

  I wanted to make an accent on such an social body as "night life". Being a teenager, I saw beautiful pictures of beatiful people, who were relaxing in a fashionable place. There several organization in my town which were posting such photos. Then once I came to one of these places. I saw men who were just drinking alcohol in big companies or alone, women who wore their most expensive dresses to show that are cool ( many of them came to that only to find rich, but stupid man, who after a night with them may be fall in love with them and give money for the more expensive dress, or shoes, or buy Iphone 5. (As I saw in photos, the most fashionable which women were making photo with was the latest model of Iphone). After several hours of siting and talking about some stupid things fighting with extremely loud music I eventually fell asleep. After 20 minutes of sleeping administrator woke me up to maintain the atmosphere of endless happiness. This atmosphere could be broken if in the farther side of some photo was seen a little boy, sleeping on the table (I was 15). So I came through the crowd of dancing people, came to the toilet and saw an rather good looking man in age of about 23 who puking to the shell. That was the real atmosphere of this place. People came, drank, and then there was two ways: to drink to the extent that they can't undersstand anything or to find somebody to sex with and do it. Very beautiful life!

  In the end I want to say that I'm not an exception. I'm following fashion in some extent. I admit it, and I hate it. Fashion is an enormous machine which makes people buy things that they don't really need. The process of globalization made fashion even more powerful, and now it is invincible. I don't want to say something like "this is the root of all evil in over society", I just want to say that everybody choses follow it or not and in what extent.

  I know several people who completely ignore tendencies of fashion. I really respect them. May be their examples will help some people to make a right choise what they want to buy and what what places they want to spend their free time.

  Thank you for attention.

6. Difficulties of sex.

  Good title, don't you think so? But in this post I want to write about difficulties of being a man or a woman in our society and answer the question whose difficulties are bigger.

  My answer is women's difficulties are bigger.Historically men were responsible for feeding their family, protecting countries and had many other things to do, while women were rising children cleaning house and also had different other things in different times. As one wise man said, "This world was built by white men for white men". Now practically all men's responsibilities ended, but women's remains parts of our life.

  This is common information which everyone knows. I want to turn to specific level, the level of interaction between young boys and girls. Of course, as Andrew wrote in the topic, a man should be confident, masculine and may be smart and be able to earn money. But where is difficulties? This is things which are really attractive. Who can refuse to be confident? You can just do it. You should just overcome your fears. The similar things are about being strong clever and, eventually, earn money. You should just do these rather pleasant things and your will be like a dream. The contreary is about women. They should be mothers,(as I understood from some blogs, most girls are really afraid to be mothers. I hope this is temporary), they should clean the house, they should do many things, while men just "can" do many things. Women are more busy, but the real responsibility lies on men.

  Having these innate differences between men and women, I can say that I don't consider as unfair all those women's whims, scandals and also something like usage of men. They know how many things they must do when she becomes a wife and then mother, so she can joy before she married. And after marriage too, but not in so big extent.

  Women are the weaker sex, we should help them, gladden them and thank for life given to us and to our children.
  Love women, most of them deserve it!
  Thank you for attention.