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Hello everyone, I want to share with you my recent greatest achievement. Yesterday, I got my updated driving licence, which now is valid till 2017. In order to obtain it, I spent many hours in the queues in various places from GAI (Russian Road Control Body) to SBERBANK, where I waited, waited and waited. But eventually I got it and now I can drive my car without fear of being fined by our not very friendly policemen. Although traffic jams in Moscow are becoming increasingly heavy, this won't stop me from driving my car (Mitsubishi Colt), which I really enjoy. I bought it in January 2006 and have had no regrets,whatsoever. The car is maneuverable, compact and specious at the same time. Now, I can reach any place comfortably listening to the music or thinking over my plans. Well, I didn't tell you about my new FCE group, though I saw them on 22d, but I'll try to do so as soon as I know more about them. On Thursday my husband and I are flying to Vietnam. We'll be staying

My trip to Saratov came to an end on December 8th. It was fine and I had really many regrets that they had a lot of snow there, in Saratov, whereas in Moscow it's grey and sleazy. ESOL people there are really efficient and everything was well organized. My FCE examining on December 8th in Moscow was nothing special, without any unexpected things. Thanks God for that! The best news is that today I've met my new FCE group in school 1359, Zhulebino. They are all pretty young, from 8th form, and seemed to be very cute. We decided to split the group into two ones in March, after our CAE boys and girls have done the examination. I'll tell you more about the new group as soon as I know about them more. That's all for now.

I'm writing to say that I'm leaving for Saratov tomorrov at 6p.m. by train. I'll be examining there YLE, KET, PET all day long on December 7th. Barbara Danshina, their cief administrator and her colleagues managed to set up an open exam centre there and now they've started administering exams without BC Moscow. By the way, the BC is closing down its exam office since January 1st, 2008. It's a great pity, as everything has always been so well organized by the BC. From now on, these functions will be given to a number of open centres all around Russia, which,I hope so, will continue good work and exams administration. I'll write about my first impression about the open center Saratov as soon as I get back home from there and I also hope to publish some photos. Let's get in touch then.