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My favourite city Chicago!!!

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Today, my husband and I are leaving for Vietnam on our joint vocation till September 3d. Nevertheless, I hope to be with you at school at 3p.m. on September 6th. Don't forget about that! But now I'm really looking forward to staying in this unusual country as my husband Stanislav, who has been there many times on business, fell in love with this country and convinced me that it's the best destination for both of us to go. Well, I'll write about Vietnam lated on, but now I want to go on writing about my favourite city in the US - Chcago. I've been there several times and each time I get a slightly different but really long lasting impression. It's Amedican Mid-West, some 400 miles from Indianapolis. First thing I did before going was that I hired a car for 3 days. It was A Dodge "Stratus", a pretty big American car which was equipped with GPS (General Positioning System) system. It's so great that I could have written a long account of using it in t

Hello there. I got your certificates. More about a good mid-west American neigbourhood

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Dear all. I collected your certificates from the BC Moscow. I mean the group which sat FCE in March. They look splendid. I'll keep them at home before I can see you or O.G. at school in September. Only Vlad Vadukov had collected his certificate himself from the BC. The rest of them (7) are waiting for their owners.Well done!!! Well, today I'll tell you about how peaceful and comfortable life in a good mid-west American neigbourhood is. You can clearly see this in the photos. It is, for example, in the way streets and grass are sprinkled every evening, in splendid views of a golf-course, some wildlife and the way people decorate their yards in front of the houses. Mind,fences don't exist in the mid-west of the US, whatsoever. If there is a fence, it would be white and made of wood so that it prevents pets from running away and looks very beautiful. Sometimes a fence is an invisible electric wire hidden in the land. The whole impression you get there is of space, order, fa