Story #10

 Tenth story

It won't be story, I will just tell you about my daily routine. I try to use these words and senteces when I do this. It is a little brain exercise, I hope this will help me switch to English faster during conversations.

I wake up around seven am, but I open my eyes at half past six. It is strange, because in the summer I wake up at eight am and open my eyes at half past seven without an alarm clock. I think my body lives in a +3 hour time zone or it has a psychological setting to wake up at this time depending on the season. I get up, put my phone and headphones on charge, and then go to bathroom. I take a toothbrush,  squeeze out some toothpaste and brush my teeth. I wash my face and dry it with a towel, comb my hair and use deodorant.

 After that I put on my jacket, rubber boots and go outside with my dog. Now in the mornings the grass is covered in dew. That's why I have to wear rubber boots. First, I walk several times from the gate to the end of the yard along the fence,  which is about 90 meters, while my dog walks. Usually sunny and warm, sometimes cloudy and cold. Spruce, pomegranate, fig, pear, apple and orange trees grow here. The orange tree is very young. It's only a meter tall, but there already has five oranges.  

I hear birds. In autumn these are usually titmouse, robin, magpie and sparrows. After the walk I start training my dog. This is important for maintaining both its body and brain in shape. We learn new commands and tricks. Recently he has learned to pass through six poles like a snake with me standing at the end of line. After training we play with a rubber ring, it's one of his favorite toys. The walk lasts 40-60 minutes. It's important that I go for a walk without my phone.

So, after walk I take a pill and go do my morning exercise. It's difficult now, since the working day in St.Petersburg has already begun and sometimes I get distracted. If no one distracts me, then I spend 30-40 minutes on my exercises.

I go to the kitchen and have breakfast. For breakfast I eat wheat porridge and drink a cup of coffee with milk. I leave some porridge for my dog.  I take my pills after breakfast and go to my home office as if I were going to work.  A big part of my job is communicating with my clients' employees. Sometimes the user calls me and the problems solve themself.

I have a lunch about 2 p.m.. I eat soup with a sandwich and a cup of tea with cookies for dessert.  Sometimes I lie on the sofa for 30 minutes after lunch to relax. Then I go back to my mini-office and work until 6 p.m. Until 7 p.m. I can work in the basement or  in the backyard, in short, do housework.

 I have a dinner at 7 p.m. Usually I have a main course with a garnish (pasta, potatoes, rice, buckwheat) and meat, as well as a salad. Sometimes it will be dumplings with meat/potatoes or more complex dish. After dinner, I go back to the office or lie down on the sofa to relax until half past 10 p.m.  At this time I go for a walk with the dogs. Yes, now I go for a walk with two dogs in the evening. We walk for about thirty minutes and come back.

I work two more hours. Sometimes I write these stories in the last hour, or rather, I try to do it every day.  Go to the bathroom and get ready for bed. It's funny, before going to bed I brush my teeth on one leg, it is a little excersize. I go to bed at one o'clock in the morning. While I'm walking the dogs in the evening, or getting ready for bed, or doing housework, I listen to audiobooks. In general, I always try to listen to audiobooks when I don't have to strain my brain. Yes, it is not the same as reading paper books, but I don't have enough time to sit and read. Before going to bed I try to complete the English cards in Duocards, and I often fall asleep in the middle of the exercise.

Story #9

 Ninth story

There are a few more moment of my life because of which I can feel ashamed.

Our apartment had one room, a kitchen, a hallway, a toilet and a bathroom. Opposite exit of the apartment there was a door to the bathroom and a little to the right was a toilet. To the right was a corridor to the kitchen and  perpendicular to the entrance to the only room. The light switch was on the wall to the left of the bathroom entrance and to the right of the toilet. The first is the lighting of the hallway and  the second is the lighting of the bathroom,  toilet and kitchen. The light switch in the hallway had a simple mechanism and was easy to disassemble. One day, I got mad at my little sister and took this switch apart so that if anyone touched it that, the button housing would fall off. I don't remember why I did it. But when my sister came out of the bathroom, she hit the switch and got electrocuted. It was only half a second, but I didn't expect it.

One day, I got angry at my first sister and I threw a crochet hook at her. The hook got stuck in the scalp. It was scary. After that moment, I decided to control myself, it seemed to me that I could harm the people around me.

When I was in the third grade, my classmate and I got into a fight. More precisely, other classmates incited him to beat me. It's funny, I remember his last name - VinogradovI was able to throw him on the floor and stepped on him with my foot. At first, I felt pride; it was my first victory. But it was the only victory of the two real fights I've ever had.

There was a boy at school who bullied me and my sisters. I can't remember where and when, but I bought a penknife and carried it with me. One day, before gym class I was talking to him in the school locker room and he said something rude, I got angry, took out a knife and wanted to stab him in the body. He took the knife from me and left.

This note is not about shame, but rather about our values when we were children. Once upon a time i had a beautiful toy - a fox with glasses. There was a metal wire in his paws. I could bend his paws so that he would sit or stand or wave his paw. I remember that I really liked this toy. But in the second grade I took it  to school with me along with other toys and sold it. My classmate bought this toy very quickly for next to nothing. I still remember this toy, only in fragments of memories, but they are there....

 today, I saw a dream.

I and unknow person were preparing for death. We knew was our last day. Someone gave us a special injection to ease the transition to the afterlife. But my companion disappeared in the middle of the day and I realized this wasn't my last day.