Hi there! My name is Sergey. I’d like to tell a couple words about one great place named English Club. I like to be there. I visit meetings of that club with great pleasure because it’s cool. Actually it’s not just cool, it’s something bigger.

I started going there because I would like to know English better. I think I’ve been visiting that one more than three years. But after a while it became something greater. First of all it’s the people. I like the people there. I like to meet with Chris, Kelly, Eileen, Val, Vladimir, and a bunch of other great men and women.

While you are reading these words I should say that we are living in different worlds. You might say ‘are you kidding me, how it could be we are on the same planet, it’s just one world’. But I ask you to believe me: if you live in America and I live in Ufa, that means that we are living in different worlds. I got the opportunity to visit USA for a few months twice earlier, and what I saw is that America is really different.

The air in Ufa is drier, we have less rain than in New York for example. Here in Ufa we have five months of winter---it’s not so unusual. People here think in other way and some values are very different. Oh, I forgot to say that Ufa is a city located in the southern Urals mountain chain, in the middle of Russia. The population is a little over one million. Most of the city is a few stores or more buildings. Ufa is an industrial city. Sometimes it’s cool here, especially in the summer time. Sometimes it’s not so fun, especially if winter lasts longer than usual.

Living in Ufa means thinking another way. It’s very cool to live in Ufa and have the opportunity to think in different ways and to have a different experience. English Club has a lot of things to make a person think differently. There are a lot of good people with open hearts who speak English, or are just learning how to speak, or somebody who just wants to start learning English, but anyway, they are all so cool and kind. I feel myself like I have one more family. I like to think about deep thoughts and questions that Chris likes to open up. I like to laugh about funny things and a lot of jokes. What can I say? Actually I can say even a lot more. But I would like to leave that all for the next time.

See you!

Sergey B.