I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!

[Pamela]

Tamara,you are nearly to break a record. :shock: Your post "I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!"is getting vast and vast :D It's so nice to see that.By the way,many thanks for information about solstice :D

[Tamara]

Hi Pamela and thank you!

Yes, continuing a thread 'Hello, I’m still a New Member!' after a month is quite funny :)
But when, in my very first day, I said that I was going just 'to settle' here, I meant the thread :)

It’s important for me - among the (vast) Internet (and even on the quite large Forum) to have this, my little English-speaking, home. And daily say "Hi! I’m still here, I’m glad to see you all and to speak to you. And I’m still learning English!!!" :) :D

See you
Tamara
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[Tamara]

Hi Michael!

[Dark Magician]

Hi Tamra :wink:
Thank very much to your message
I am not always angry :x ...ok may sometime. :roll:
Thank a lot of your opinion.
I read your post about your party, sound fantastic
see ya :wink:
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[Foah]

Hi Tamara!

How are you today? Could you relax with cucumbers in brine and rich chicken broth?

As the reason for your party sounded so very public I hope it wasn?t in Ascot :wink: , because in our yesterday?s newspaper there is a small note about tumults there. But as you were able to post yesterday, I think you didn?t belong to the tumult-leaders as 28 of the beating and champaign-glasses throwing women and men were put into prison. :wink: By the way, our newspaper mentioned that the English newspaper "The Sun" reported about that event. The Queen and me agree that we aren?t amused about things which happened between the members of the ?upper class?. :lol: :lol:

Have a pleasant sunday

Michael
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[Tamara]

Hi Dark magician! Nice to see you!

Hi Michael!

Now I’m fine, thank you. :)
Not fell of a horse or high-heeled shoes :). Not twisted my leg while dancing. Not in a prison (as it seems :) - or, at least, in a prison cell for 'the upper class' – with quite fast broadband Internet ;) )
And by now even having a bit of hazy recollection of my ESOL exams which are in three days :)

[Foah]

Hi Tamara!

I?m happy to hear that everything is fine with you and also that you had been at a more well behaving society than that in Ascot. 8)

I mean that you always surprise me with expressions and now even in German that?s great. 8) But please tell me how you did manage to surprise your various cocktails? Didn?t they expect to get drunk by such a illustrious society or have you told them some German toasts? :wink: :D

I hope you aren?t annoyed by my silly questions but with my little skills in English, I imagined some surprised cocktails :roll: :)

Enjoy your sunday

Michael
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[Tamara]

:)

In the last quarter of a very long and big public party (for several hundred of people) some cocktail ingredients for 'standard' cocktail recipes are successfully coming to the end (run out) and from this turning-point barmen and barmaid start to express their creativity :)
Sometimes taste is really surprised :) :D

[Foah]

Hi Tamara!

I hope you had a pleasant sunday afternoon! Here it was as hot and sticky, you weren?t nearly unable to breath in the air until the late afternoon. Then the thunderstorm came and brought a fresh shower and cooled down the air. 8) Sometimes I love a thunderstorm. Anyhow is it always a pretty nice misterious happening and yesterday it was very nice horrible again (Brrrr.....) :wink: if you know what I mean. During a quater hour there followed one lightening the other and there was the whole time a thunder to hear. How awful! :D

But what about your exam? Are you busy to learn and counting the last days? 28th ? One and a half day from now! I slowly start crossing my fingers. Might be that I don?t have much time tomorrow, therefore I?ll wish you good luck yet. I think you?ll make it!

See you

Michael
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[Tamara]

Hi Michael!

[Yankee]

[Tamara]

:lol:

Thanks, Amy. Now I seem to be fully equipped :lol: :)
…provided that during my exams at least three fingers on my right hand & one eye & one ear would be still stand by me… :)

So… to keep the ritual: К ЧЁРТУ! ('To devil') :) :D

(Hopefully) see and hear you all tomorrow evening :)
Tamara
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[Foah]

Hi Tamara!

How did your first exam day go? Havew you sweated as much?

I must say it didn?t sweat, as I couldn?t work with crossed fingers. :wink: Thank you for that pleasant day!

Michael
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[Tamara]

:)

Hi!

Seem to have come back rather WITH shield than ON it. But you nether know... :)

Reading test was fairly easy and I've managed to finish it 15 minutes before the time is over.
And now I discover just a few my mistakes :) /wrong answers - among 40 small (close test) questions on eight (page-size) test texts from different area of everyday life.
(One was 'How does your garden grow' - a clear advice on growing plants :) :) )

In particular, some words I didn’t know yet - by today's 10 a.m. :)
For example, timber. The tricky text about a strong construction tempted me to think that 'timber' should be metal rather than wooden. Now I know more :)

Writing was more difficult for me (as it includes three very different tasks to be done for 100 min but I am not the best Time Manager to schedule myself…)
But this time as I had properly broken neck, legs and brain, I was much more lucky with exam tasks :)

The first was from computer context (proposal for a new project), the third was very similar to my recent exercise (informal letter to a relative to asks for advice in your difficult situation. I always complain to my non-existent uncle Fred :) )

But the second… I left it for dessert and, of course, didn’t manage complete to schedule. When ‘5 minutes left’ warning was given, I found myself digging in details of comparison of American and Japanese models of People Management at a large company :) Not to mention that management of any sort is not my horse at all :)
So, I was forced to cut short my investigation and concluded the essay – suddenly :) Never, never, never… this, the best among others, world will gets to know my very important opinion on the topic. :D

And, of course, as usual, I had no time to check up my hasty writing - to place missing articles, to remove redundant ones :) and to correct all those damn 'staff are', 'money is',
'call to [-THE-] police', etc.
…

Well... To sum it all up :) : generally, I hope I’ve done it. Cleared the today's bar.

P.S. Sorry for such a long post, I just need to breathe out. :)

Thanks a lot for your attention :)
Tamara
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[Foah]