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There's nothing special in my life these days. Only global warming,little Stephan and going to the theatre can make it brighter and bring some welcome changes. So have a look at these things in our life and the funny creature called Stephan and these bright colours of the late autumn in our area. Really unusual... Love all of you and really enjoy some of photos on the facebook. Take care...

Hey there, Writing to say 'Hello' to all of my nearest and dearest from sunny Moscow. This autumn has been so unusually sunny and bright here in Moscow! Look at some photos. I also wanted to share with you some of the photos of my grandson Stephan (4 months old already), Stas (18)and their Mom Marina, my daughter. They live with us at dacha (you can see their old dacha house in the picture)using electric heater and go every weekend to Tuchkovo where Stephan lives with his another Granny (sure, not me, Kostya's Mom). Marina got back to her teaching at school, Kostya is still out of work because of his problems with the car accident. So the young boy can see his parents only once a week =(. We're looking forward to sth to change for better in their lives. No money, no hause... Let's keep our fingers crossed for them...

It was a really nice event for all of us who devoted their lives and time to Cambridge University in some way. Today we were invited to take part in a celebration party that took place in the Oval Hall of the Russian Library of Foreign Literatures (ul Nikoloyamskaya 6). I really enjoyed the event and especially meeting some people I haven't seen for a long time. Good event and occasion. Have a look at some photos, though some of them are not perfect. Sorry...

Hey there, this week I've been busy attending seminars on "Learning Technologies" for EL teachers. It was held at BC Moscow form Monday to Friday and it was quite tiring, but very interesting, indeed. Two leading British trainers gave us a lot of info about some useful educational tools called Web 2 technologies. Some I know and even use, but there was somewhat new to me as well.For example, I learned that in the US some Stanfors teachers use social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace for teaching! In order to know more about Facebook, I even signed up and got surprised to see a few familiar faces (my former University mates) on it. It's in English so these people must live in english speaking countries now. And they were the brightest students on the course... I didn't try to get in contact with them as I know that it's very addictive and time-consuming. May be later?...I don't know if I really want this so much. Well, the autumn is on its way bu