The last blog post in this English class

The first semester at NES comes to an end. Therefore, now it is a sufficient time to evaluate my progress in this English class and things I should continue working on. To express my ideas in clearer way, I'd like to emphasize some points I'm going to tell about.

1. Fluency of my speech.

I wrote in some of my previous posts that I had difficult with fluency of my speech. It was hard to me to formulate my thoughts in English fast and then tell them to David or my classmates without stammer. I was also confused to ask David questions in English because I though he wouldn't understand me. However, at the end of this course I can say that I enhanced my speaking skills, and the fluency of my speech became faster. It is also not confusing for me to speak with David and others native English speakers about something. It is a very important aspect of my English progress!

However, it is worth saying that despite the fact my speech became faster, I should continue working on it so that to have an opportunity to speak free with English speakers about any topic.

2. My writing skills.

As you possibly know, before this English class I hadn't practice in writing many types of English essay. Obviously, my writing skills were very bad. However, in this class I knew much about how to write and what to write in opinion, descriptive, narrative, comparison and contrast, and argumentative essays. It was hard to me, and some of my grades were worse than I had expected before this class. Nevertheless, for every lesson I learned more and more about writing, wrote blog posts and essay assignments, and read special materials for every lesson. This way, I enhanced my writing skills, and now it is easier for me to write essays or blog posts than it was before. However, it is worth saying that my writing skills are very long to be called "perfect", so I should continue practicing in writing. I expect that next semester I will have this opportunity.

3.Oral presentations.

At the beginning, I'd like to say that doing oral presentations was one of the most interesting assignments we had in this class! Actually,it is worth saying that I always liked doing oral presentation when I was at high school but I never did it in English. There I've got 2 opportunities to do it. I should confess, it was harder than do presentations in Russian. However, some training helped me to fell myself confident and I got 26 of 30 points for the first presentation and 28 of 30 points for the second presentation. I think, this result is good enough, but if I paid more attention to my grammar and pronunciation, I could get better grades. Therefore, next semester I'm planning to work on my grammar and pronunciation at the Writing at Communication Center.

4. Vocabulary

It is worth saying that I am little disappointed about my vocabulary progress. Despite the fact that I knew some words writing essays and blogs, but before this class  I had expected that learning new words would be more systematic. However, we did an only one vocabulary list in the semester. I think, 40 words should be learned every month to enrich our vocabulary. Next semester I'm planning to learn more words reading books and texts in English. Fortunately, the next class is committed to reading assignments, so I expect I'll get practice enough.

In conclusion, I'd like to say that this English class was very interesting and useful for me! I haven't missed any lessons because every lesson I learned something that was new for me.

Thank you for your work, David!

The NES 20th Anniversary

It's seems to me that I'm not only NES student who will write a post #14 about the NES 20th Anniversary. It is no wonder. According to Konstantin Sonin, “There is no doubt that The NES Anniversary will be the main event of academic season in economic science, it can be guaranteed" (Sonin, December 11, 2012). Actually, after the celebration ceremony of the Anniversary I realized that Sonin was right.
I worked on the Anniversary as a volunteer. We were discussing unpaid internship last lessons with my classmates. I urged that every person should have internship so that to get useful experience for the future and also to get important contacts. Therefore, when I got an offer to become a volunteer on the NES Anniversary I hadn't any doubts to accept it.
The first day (14 December) of the Anniversary wasn't simple for me. Me and my colleagues ought to transport electronic devices and other things from NES building to World Trade Center, where the Anniversary was celebrated. After four hours of work we were invited to the stand-up of "Welcome reception". There I was stuffed full and was ready to continue working next day :) . Moreover, the next day many lessons of famous economists were planned, and I was looking forward to visit them.
15 December. The greatest day if the celebration.
At the beginning of that day Olivier Blanchard, the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, presented a keynote speech "The State of the World Economy". It was interesting, but, worth to say that I didn't understand all his speech at all because of lack of experience in listening scientific lectures. However, I was very glad to listen such a famous person. All in all, it is a big rarity to meet with people like Blanchard is, every day.
But it was only the beginning. Next, I attended a roundtable "Does Internet change everything?" At that roundtable I was explained that Internet would play more and more important role in people life. One evidence is that almost all students know information from the Internet, not from TV (none of the students raised their hand when were asked this question).
The most interesting roundtable was "Economic policy". Speakers were Arkady Dvorkovich (Deputy Prime Minister), Igor Shuvalov (First Deputy Prime Minister), Erik Berglof (Chief Economist and Special Adviser to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Sergei Guriev (the Rector of the New Economic School), and Anders Aslund (a famous Swedish economist). They told about Russian economic policy, its failures. In addition, they evaluated perspectives of Russian Economy development. 

It is worth saying that at the beginning of this roundtable Igor Shuvalov and Arkady Dvorkovich were absented themselves. That time, S. Guriev, E. Berglof, and A. Aslund didn't have any reason to argue with each other about their economic views. However, when I. Shuvalov and A. Dvorkovich came, the topic of the roundtable became debatable. It was very interesting and, worth to say, amusingly! The most memorable moment of this roundtable was the suggestion which was given to students by I. Shuvalov to sign up for internship in the government during one summer's month. Frankly speaking, I thought it was joke, but then I noticed woman who signed up students for this internship. However, I didn't sign up, because I thought that this summer I would have more valuable opportunities to get useful experience for the future. 

The NES 20th Anniversary Dinner.

After the roundtable "Economic policy" all guests and volunteers were invited to the NES 20th Anniversary Dinner. It was amazing! Many famous people such as German Gref, Petr Aven, Gur Ofer, Mikhail Abyzov, Barry Ickes and many professors of prestigious foreign universities congratulated the New Economic School for its anniversary. I had never seen so many famous people in one place and I felt myself like on the other planet. However, it was reality, and I was very glad to feel myself a member of the NES – this fascinating community! 

One of the most memorable and unexpected event was performance given by a professor Andrei Shevchenko and Roger Myerson - the Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2007. A. Shevchenko song and R. Myerson accompanied him by harmonica.

After this performance, students of  joint HSE/NES Bachelor of Arts in Economics program took a photo with J. Myerson.

After this performance, students of  joint HSE/NES Bachelor of Arts in Economics program took a photo with J. Myerson.

In conclusion, I'd like to say that the NES 20th Anniversary, according to K. Sonin was really the main event of academic season in  economic science in Russia. Moreover,  the Anniversary became one of the most memorable event in my life. I'm really proud to be a NES student!

                                                

A critique of my argumentative essay

Write a critique of your argumentative essay. What is the best
thing about it? What are the essay’s weaknesses? How can you
improve your essay? How is this essay different than essays you
wrote earlier in the semester?

Having finished peer review on the previuos lesson, I saw that my classmates had given me some useful critique of my essay:
The first problem is bad word choices. Sometimes I don't know how to express the meaning of Russian words in English, so I use a Russian to English translator that sometimes doesn't suggest appropriate words' form for the context. To avoid this problem, I should pay more attention when choosing the form of word and try to find text or sentences with similar context which have the words I want to use in my text, and then try to correlate them.

The next problem is grammar mistakes. When I have some ideas which I can use in my essay, I try to write them as  fast as I can so that to not remember. As a consequence, I do a lot of gramma mistakes, for example, miss article. To avoid these mistakes, I should read essay out loud after finishing. The best way would be to print it, and then correct it with a pan.   (It is worth saying that I was surpised to see that David suggested us the same ways for checking essays in his new blog post).

Thirdly, sometimes I do mistakes in organisation of body paragraphs. Sometimes I can write a concluding sentence which brings new idea to my essay while I just only have to conclude a paragraph.  Also, some of my body paragraphs don't contain information that is essential for support my ideas. To avoid this problem I should pay more attention and time for body paragraphs' organisation.

I think the best critique was about my second body paragraph where the Nadezhda's comment helped me to notice that my argument doesn't help to understand why the Russia's government should change its economic policy with regard to political protection to companies. I will try to do some changes of this body paragraph in my second draft to make my idea more clear.

If I effectively use the ways of avoiding weaknesses in my essay, I will improve it.

Differences between this essay and others essay I wrote earlier:
In comparison with other essays I wrote in the semester, an argumentative one is longer than others and, of course, more complicated because of searching the source and form them according to the rules. 
However, I liked the argumentative essay more than previous essays because in this essay I had to do a research like a real economist.

An one hour delay or how almost 10 thousand people lated for work

Having looked through my previous topics, I realized that I hadn't written about the way which I get to the University(this way is, firstly, an electric train, and then underground). Frankly speaking, it is not surprising because I thought that my blog's readers would not be interested in my way. Really, many of us use an electric train to get to work, school, and University. However, last week I got an experience which many of people had not got.

 It was Wed, 28 November. On that day I had a lesson at 9 a.m. at NES building. As usually, I wanted to wake up at 6:40 a.m. to catch an electric train that arrived at 7:25 a.m. I often use a train in this time because it isn't too crowded as the train in 7:40 a.m. However, because of much homework I went to sleep in 3 a.m. 

Having woken up, I realized that I overslept 20 minutes and didn't have time to catch the electric train in 7:25 a.m. However, I had time enough to go to the electric train in 7:40. But when I woke up, my first thought was to continue sleep and miss the first lecture. I was thinking for 5 minutes, but then I decided to go. I was standing up with words "It will be great if I don't regret about my choice". But one hour later I regretted.

It wasn't a secret for me that sometimes electric train at 7:40 a.m. goes from Odintsovo to Moscow more than 25 minutes as it is written in a timetable because of many stops. But these stops were not longer than 5 minutes, so I wasn't worry about it. However, I made a mistake. 

Having caught the train, I noticed that there were more people than usually, so I had to stay in a narrow passage with too many people around me. I even could not make a single movement! But it was only start of my problems. Having gone 3 stations, the train was stucked. A machinist turned off the heating and opened doors. All crowds began waiting. At the beginning I thought that it was an ordinary stop that would be no longer than 5 minutes. But then I began noticing that 5, 10,15,20,30 minutes were flowing...all crowd became anxious. Some people decided to catch the bus or phone to the machinist so that to know what had happened... After 50 minutes of delay I realized that I had late for the first lecture for almost 40 minutes. In other words, it meant that I had hurried for nothing. Moreover, I was very tired to stay within the crowd without opportunity to make a single movement. But I couldn't make a thing. After one hour the train set off and people began applauding. However, the one hour delay meant that I almost missed the first lecture at NES and at the same time thousands of people delayed for work.

In conclusion, I'd like to ask myself and other people a rhetorical question: “Did it case show that we always should do what we want to do? “ My answer is not, but henceforth I will think more about my decisions. Sometimes in can be useful.

My opinion about interships. What are their pros and cons?

It is not a secret that students' internships during high school and early in college are becoming more and more popular nowadays. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, 50 percent of graduating college students in 2008 had held internships - an increase from 17 percent in 1992*. Moreover, 62.4 of hires coming from an employer's program are still with the company, compared to just 48.1 percent of hires who came with no internship experience whatsoever**. However, despite the fact that statistics shows us obvious advantages of internships, Anya Kamenetz and Jenifer Halperin both have good points that help readers to choose a  way (participate in internship or not) which will be the most appropriate for them. As for me, I think that internships are very useful and valuable experience for those who want to get in the future not only a well-paid job, but also skills of communication with people, and ability to work without getting money.

In my third blog I told about Krasnoyarsk Summer School (KSS). However, I didn't tell that in KSS I worked as a tutor during three weeks in July. My duties were very different. At this job I didn't get any money. But my work was very hard and included different kinds of duties. I had to read a course of lecture, work with my team of students, and do some organizational work. It is worth saying that when I decided to go to the KSS, I led to one goal - get useful and valuable experience in teaching and communication with people from different professions. It wasn't hard for me to realize that at the beginning of my career money wasn't important thing. Now I can say that I have reached my goals.

For this reason, I support arguments of Jenifer Halperin more than arguments of Anya Kamenetz. I agree with Jenifer that participation in unpaid internship shows employers that you are serious about the career and are willing to put in the hard work needed for the reward of a potential job. I also agree that internship is a great way to build resume and portfolio and to get useful experience. Some people can ask me, “What about get participation in internship with getting some money?" My answer is not. In this case people will work for money, but not for experience.

However, the idea of unpaid internships is good in case, according to Anya Kamenetz, "you are rich enough to work without pay to get your foot in the door".  Really, if you haven't any financial support, unpaid internships can be a bad idea. But it is worth saying that I don't see any reason for not participating in internships.

In conclusion, I'd like to say that my internship experience is still poor, so I'm going to continue getting participation in this one until I have fun of it and have financial support. Despite the fact that it has some disadvantages, I believe that it is a great investment to my future. I think that people can achieve success in any activity if their goal is not to get as much money as they can, but to get real pleasure from this activity.

* Are intership Fair to student? P.582.

**2012 Internship and Co-op Survey: Executive Summary

Yegor Gaidar Prize

Since I've got an assignment from David to write a weekly blog, especially on free topic, I have been starting to look at all around me with attention, looking for different things I can talk about in my blog post. It is worth noting that choice of topic isn't difficult for me because the process of studying at The New Economic School bring me new ideas and opportunities every day. Therefore, today's blog will be about my attending the awards ceremony of Yegor Gaidar Prize that I could attend because of invitation from NES.

Do you know who Yegor Gaidar was? He was a statesman who conducted the transition from a planned Russia economy to a market. It is worth saying that his activity is evaluted by experts and ordinary citizens very contradictory, but if you have a read of his book "The loss of Empire", you will convince that Y.Gaydar's reforms were necessary, timely, and very important for Russia. Moreover, I have to say that Y.Gaidar wasn't only a talented reformer, but also a strong, manly, and dedicated person.
Y.Gaidar died in 2009, but many people save a memory and admiring about him(I'm not an exception).
Yegor Gaidar Prize was established in 2010 for people who made the most important contribution to the development of Russia. There are three nominations: economic, history, and civil society. In each nomination a winner is selected by authoritative people who are dedicated to the profession for which the prize was awarded.

When I and my friend Ildar went to this party, we were too impressive: too many famous people such as politicians from The Parliament, artists, actors. scientists, economists who helped to Y.Gaidar to make his reform and other people who are very well-known in Russia. It was unbelievable experience for me because I've never seen such famous people in one place. 
Then the ceremony began. The prize in economics was won by V. Kapelyushnikov and V. Gimpelson. They research labour market and economics of labour in Russia for some decades. It is difficult to assess their contribution to the development of Russia.
The prize in history was won by V. Schnirelman who has been studying nationalism and problems of ethnic discrimination in Russia for almost 40 years. Just imagine! 
The prize for contribution to the Russian civil society was won by Lilia Shibanova who has been working to protect the rights of voters and monitoring in all elections as the head of the association "The Voice". We all know how many offenses were done on previous State Duma's elections and I'm very proud of having compatriot who tries to prevent these crimes!

One thing I'd like to say is that when winners of prize went to a scene, they were asked by anchorman this question, 'What do you like to wish to yonger generations?' There is no need to tell here what they said to us. I'll just say that after this party I realized how it is important to make a contribution to different spheres of our life, and also is that the future of Russia (in all definitions as you can imagine) depends on us - younger generations. If we try to become our homeland better with many accomplishments, then it become better, undoubtedly. And we will not fail! Are you join to me?

Comparison and contrast aspect of Russian culture and an aspect of American culture.

It is worth saying I was surprised to get this assignment in my English class because I had posted about USA and Russia presidential elections a week before, and had found some things that make a contrast between U.S. and Russia. Let's assume my previous post as a type of preparing for this one.

Despite the fact that I've never been in the U.S., I noticed some differences and similarities between Russia and U.S., reading newspapers, observing for presidential elections, talking with people who had ever lived in both countries. 
At first glance, the U.S. and Russia can look a lot alike. Really, they both have population more than 100 million people, constitution, an elected president, republican government. However, it's not a good way to conclude both countries are identical relying only some similarities. As a comparison shows, aspects of Russian and the U.S. cultures are different enough.

Firstly, I noticed that in American and Russia cultures is a way to use words "football" and "soccer". It can be surprise, but Americans and Russians understand these words equally. At the same time, in the U.S. there is a sport which called as "American football", but it is not the same as football in Russia.

Secondly, It was a secret for me that in U.S. it isn't patient to ask people about they preferences in politics. Obviously, it is also incorrect to ask about their choice of president on the elections. Russian people often tell about their politics preferences and don't protest to ask them about it.

Thirdly, I think that Russian people more often use an informal type of speech. Moreover, it is not a rarity to hear an obscene language from Russian people. I have been living in Moscow for three months and very often use a public transport to go to the university. Because of this, I often hear that people insult each other. At the same time, in the U.S. people more tolerant and patient. I don't know a reason of these different types of behavior, but I can suppose that the U.S. has a better judiciary than Russia which regulate abusive conduct more perfect.

A very important thing I have to say is the differences between Russian and the U.S. mentalities. I noticed that many of Russian people often complain about place where they live. For example, they are dissatisfied that their city is too crowded, policy is not an efficient, and legislation in Russia is worse than, for example, in the U.S. I am used to call this principle as "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence". On the other hand, as my Russian friend, who has lived in the U.S. for some years, said, in the U.S. it is a big rarity to meet complaining people. They like the place where they live. I can make a mistake, of course, so it would be better to ask my teacher David about it.

In conclusion, I'd like to say that Russian and the U.S. culture have many differences. However, it isn't hard for me to communicate with Americans. Moreover, we find our communication very interesting and useful, so I can suppose that differences between cultures are capable to make people closer and be interested with each other.

A lecture about United States presidental election in 2012

Two months of studying have finished, so all NES students got a consultation week (it is also known as week without classes but the week with too much homework) and a little time to relax. However, I didn't want to relax and decided to spend my time efficiently. The most appropriate thing was a lecture about United States presidental election in 2012 which were being gone to talk by Konstantin Sonin, who is NES prorector. Two months at NES helped me to realize that I should always be interested in all what surrounds me. Moreover, I wanted to know about USA election more that I had known before, so I instanly decided to attend it.
The lecture was planned to be told at general office of a news portal "The Russian information agency. When I came here, I was too surprised to realize that lecture would be told at very comfortable auditorium with real TV presenter. (It is worth saying that when I was in Kansk I liked to watch lectures like this and wanted to be in an auditorium, not behind the screen)


I'd like to tell some information, which were new and interesting for me, that I knew at the lecture. Firstly, it doesnt't matter who is a presidential candidate: an acting president or not, because an active president's chances to win are the same as he wouldn't be a president. According to statistics, acting president wins elections as often as a candidate who isn't a president. It was a surprise for me because I always thought that acting president won in most cases (Hmm, may be because I live in Russia?).

Secondly, sometimes it doesn't matter who of candidates received a majority of votes. There is an electoral college where candidates struggle for votes of electors. Total votes are 538.  These votes divided in proportion to the population of USA . In case one candidate received a majority of votes, even a small margin, then he got all votes of this state. So the most important goal for candidate is getting majority of votes in the electoral college.

Finally, I knew one detail of election  that I hadn't noticed before. At the beginning of election company each candidate choose strong position of policy that they try to lead during the company. For example, in USA one candidate is republican and a second candidate is a democrat. Their policy's positions called "left" and "right". When the election company starts, the  republician begin advocating for a tax decrease,  less state intervention to national economy, and so on. At the same time, the second candidate defends the opposite position. Why do they do it? Among voters there are people with different ideologies. Some people think that government should control all aspects of society, some people don't think so. Some people thing that decreasing of taxes will help national economy, some people think that won't. At the same time, there are people with ideology between "left" and "right".Because of this, each candidate should firstly get support of electors with strong "right" position, and then the support of electors with position between "right" and "left". Otherwise the candidate risks to lose votes of electors with strong position. When I realised it, I noticed  that before elections were ten days, Mitt Romney began doing little changes in their policy so that to be near the position between "left" and "right". For instance, Romney said that his attitude towards Russia will be more flexible, but a week before he had said that he would be strong with Russia.
 
The lecture about United States presidental election in 2012 was very interesting for me because I knew some facts that I hadn't know before. I think, attending lectures like this is great experience, and I'm going to continue doing it. But now let's wait for the outcome of the elections and make our predictions!

My progress in this class.

I have been attending English class at HSE-NES for almost 2 months, so I think it is a good time to evaluate my progress in English.

The first thing is my speaking skills. As you possibly know, before I began attending this English class, I had never talked with native English speakers. Never! So when I knew that my English teacher David would be from USA, I was so happy about it. The first lesson was hard to me, because I  was afraid of saying something to my classmates and my teacher because I though I would not been understood because of my lack of practise.  Therefore, I began to attend consultation at Writing and Communication Centre. Since then, my speaking skills improved. It began easier for me to talk with other students and my teacher David. However, it is continue difficult for me to formulate long phrases when I talk.  For this reason, I' m going to attend consultations at WCC and practice English as much as I can.

Another thing is my listening skills. They became better. I began to understand movies and song much better than earlier, and of course, now I understand properly what my English teacher says. It is incredible to notice how your English skills tend to improve!
 To improve my skills I'm going to watch movies and listen to music in  English, and also communicate with partner on Skype (David gave us a link to the site (https://languagecenter.cla.umn.edu/tandem/)  where people from foreign counries register and  can communicate with each other, helping each other to learn their languages.) I registered and was chosen by partner Alyssa Hertig. She is from USA. And today I have a meeting with her on Skype. I think it will be great experience!

It is also important to say what  I've learned in this class. I  learned properly how essay should be organized, and how it is important to connect all the essay's details with thesis statement.
Unfortunately, my grades of writing assignments leaves much to be desired.  It's continue hard to me to write essays which connect with all standarts. If I was more concentrated on these, my grades would be better. I think, it is often happened because of my lack of experience in writing and speaking in English. Earlier I thought that academic writing was easy to do, but now I realized I made a mistake.

I enjoy lessons with David. Every lesson I and my classmates talk only in English, watch video, work with handouts,  work in groups, take different exercises which help me to understand new material better .  I'm never bored in this class and I like it!     
   
In concusion, I'd like to say that  I'm going to continue work hard in this class and also attend consultations at Writing and Communication Centre at NES so that to develop my writing,listening, and speaking skills. I'm also going to watch movies, read books and newspapers in English so that to learn more vocabulary. I hope to speak in English freely, and I think the NES is the best place to realize my dreams. I'm looking forward to next lessons to make my English better! 

I'm fond of cooking

The longer I live, the more I notice that there aren't people without hobbies. Having hobbies helps us to relax, to divert our attention away from routine work. Moreover, it can also help you to communicate with others people, maintain friendly relations with people who is keen on her hobbies too. Because of this, I realized that I should tell about my favourite hobby  - cooking.

Since I have been young,  I really liked cooking. When my Mum baked cakes, I always saw to her movements and tried to help her. Divine smells of food always made my head spin, and I really wanted to cook by myself. However, she didn't allow me to do it without her helping because I was too young and could hurt myself. As a result, I had to forgot about cooking until I became older, so I concentrated on other hobbies.

Later, when I was 16 my interest to this hobby came to me again. It was a summer, so I had free time for doing my hobbies. Moreover, my Mum had got a flu, so I had to cook for my family. I began cooking as much as I can, preparing breakfasts and dinners. It was incredible feelings to see dishes that I cooked were better than I thought. However, it's worth saying that I more like baking. Baking is more interesting for me because I always liked cakes,pies and pizzas and wanted to know how they prepared. So did I. Therefore, I like to show you some images of cakes and pies that I baked.

Unfortunately, living in a dormitory I haven't any opportunities to bake because a stove that I use doesn't have an oven.  Meanwhile,I continue love my hobby and try to cook original dishes by myself as often as I can. 

A short, but scary story of my life

When I was young, I liked to walk with my parents from Dad's garage to home. After a car had been parked by my Dad we often went home together through a pinewood. It wasn't long distance but because of my young age it seemed to me long enough. I really liked this place! There were many high pines with squirrells lived inside. I often fed them nuts and it was happiness for me to watch a squirrel eating nuts on my hand and looking at my eyes so close. However, the main thing I liked to do in this place is running. Being only six years old, I always got away from my parents imagining they were gaining on me. It was a funny game for me. It was the game for them too until I went down in a scary story.
It was a sunny summer day with breeze and not many clouds in the sky. After I and my parents had returned from a summer cottage, we went to the garage to park the car and took a walk through the pinewood as usual. Having a good mood, I ran carefree on a footpath. Suddenly I noticed the most formidable, the hugest dog I had ever seen. It had crazy eyes and alongated snout. One look at it made a frightfulness  effect. Suddenly the dog started  running towards me, barking! I didn't know what to do. This dog was as tall as I was and he could catch me in one second! However, I turned into another direction and ran as fast as I could. I was so scared that I couldn't say a word, couldn't begin to cry! I had already thought it was the end of my life when I heard Dad's voice. He understood I was in danger and ran to rescue me! When dog saw a man running towards him, he stopped and returned to his owners. I was in safety.
Despite the fact I was recsued, I couldn't talk and stay upright. It was also a mystery for me how I didn't become a slatterer. Since then, I've been afraid of dogs.
However, it was a good lesson for me to realize that I ought to be more careful in child and then in adult life.
Summary, it's worth saying that this story was too scary but all is well that ends well!

New Economic Start 2012

Since I've been studying at NES there were many memorable events. Therefore, now I'm going to tell about one of them. About New Economic Start 2012.

The NES Start has been holding since 2009 and joins participants from Russia, China, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, USA. It is a charity multicontinental run where every participant should pay a fee for helping children from orphanages.
I first heard about NES Start this summer and decided to go immediately.
It was a cloudy day with non-sunshine. However, in my opinion, weather like this is the most suitable for running. The organisation was admirable! There were many volunteers cheering up participants during the distation, providing them water and food. I was glad to see many NES professors on this event. It is very important for students to realize that professors are not only good  at subjects they teach but also at different kinds of activities. In addition, it is a great chance to compete with them because there aren't others possibilities to do it.

The start began with short warm-up that is necessary for jogging to not get a trauma during the running.






Then a photograph did a general photo and all participants were ready to start.

It is worth saying that running was hard for me because of not enough trainings the month before. However, I tried to run as fast as I can and finished distance of 5 kilometres 30rd of about 180 participants with result 21 minutes and 50 seconds. The most difficult distance for me were last 100 metres because I was too tired and wanted to overtake participant ahead of me. I did it and was very glad because, in my opinion, the most important victory is a self-conquest! Participating in New Economic Start was great experience for me and I'll continue running undoubtebly!

That which does not kill us makes us stronger!

P.S. Unfortunately, I haven't found all photos from NES Start so I'll try to add them to this topic as fast as I find them.

Krasnoyarsk Summer School

The longer I live, the more I understand that the main memoirs in our life connected with places that changed us for the better. I'm not an exception.

The place I'd like to tell about is Krasnoyarsk Summer School (In Russian: КЛШ ). Klsh was established in 1976 and since then it go every year. Every year KSS unifies the 250 cleverest and talanted students especially from Krasnoyarsk region and others Russian cities who are interested in different kinds of science. 

KSS has rich traditions, own song-book written by tutors and students, dedicated lectors who go there and teach students every year not getting money for it...It's so difficult for me to tell you all what I want to tell because a picture paints a thousand words. However, I'll try to descript this place and explain why it is very important for me.
KSS is a place without defined goals. For the first view, it can be strange for people who have never been there. But it is just a first view because everyone can define goals by himself.
There are four scientists areas where students learn Biology,Maths,Physics, Economics and others. It is a great chance to develop yourself! You may attend many lectures told by professional lecturers from leading Russian and American universities.
In addition to these facts, there are many studio and concerts where everyone can show his talents. It is a mini-country with own laws, traditions and people. Moreover, KSS includes special days  devoted to scientists areas. There are many entertainments on these days!
I first went to the KSS when I was 17 years old. The first impression was very friendly atmosphere: tutors and students song, played on the guitars, shouted chants. I was shown that all students should work as a team and what a great thing to do it!
KSS's motto is :"Every day, every hour, whole life - make yourself better". It became my life motto as well as Krasnoyarsk Summer School became my favourite place.

It was just a descriprive part of KSS so I really like to continue my telling about it in my next blogs!

Dreams come true

Have you ever been on the official football match? If you haven't, I hardly recommend you to go to this event!

When I was young, I used to watch many football matches between national and club teams on TV. I was always excited when my favourite team scored and all of spectators and commentators were shouting: “Goal! Goal! Goal”! I got unbelievable feelings!   It made me happy and raised my mood!  Because of these facts it’s not too difficult to understand that I’ve always dreamt to go to the real match on the stadium.

 Unfortunately, my little town didn’t have any professional teams so I just could watch football on TV and support teams through the TV screen.
The lack of opportunities made me sad but I always knew that one day I would attend a real football stadium! So did I.
                Every year Russian football team participates in selection to World Football Championship or Europe Championship. For instance, now it is a qualification round to WC 2014 in Brazil. As you possibly know, the national team must play matches called “home matches” (it means that foreign football team must come to our country’s stadium and play here) and “guest matches” (our national team must go to the other country) so I knew that would be a “home” football match between Russia and Northern Ireland in Moscow. Because of being here I decided to go in one second.
                I couldn’t believe my eyes when I went to the stadium. There were many people with Russian flags shouting: “Russia!” Then the match began and I saw the footballers who I had always watched on TV.  Great!
                Our team defeated Northern Ireland 2-0 so I was very glad to have fun and had my dream came true!
                To sum up, I’d like to say that being in a real stadium is quite different than watch it on TV. For this reason, I’m going to attend the next “home” match in 7, October.  Let’s join to me!

That's me

Hello, everyone! Welcome to my blog. I have never had it so it is a new experience for me. Therefore, I hope we will communicate with each other and exchange the important information, share our interests and tell stories about our life.
Due to my first blog, I'd like to introduce myself.


I was born in Kansk, Kranoyarskiy krai.  Kansk is the little, cold Syberian town with population of about 100,000. It hasn't many industries and it is impossible to get a good degree there so I always knew that I would go studying to the big city.

In Kansk I studied in gymnasium 11 forms.
During the studying I really liked to partcipate in intellectual competitions so I decided to go to the university up to it.
I've done it so now I'm in Moscow.


Living in Moscow is the challenge because I've never been there before. Somehow, I hope everything will be OK. In the university I'm finding new friends and getting many useful knowledge as I always hoped! NES and HSE support many opportunities and open perspectives for future. I'm very glad to study here.

In my free time, I like reading, jogging, attend a gym, dancing, throwing knifes and shooting. I think everyone should have different kinds of activities except studying, A rolling stones gathers no moss!

Especially I'd like to tell what I hope to learn in English class.In my town I didn't have good opportunities to study except attending English school in 11 form so I believe to improve my speaking and writing skills as much as I can. I think it is really because I have the native speaker teacher David Atterberry and classmates who have the advanced level of English.

I wish you respond to my blog any time!