1. I will add the first 14 people to comment on this journal to the Promotional List.

2. For each of those 14 people, I will put their avatar and three deviations I like from their gallery on the list.

3. If I feature you, you'll have to do the same in your journal, putting me on the first place, completing this way the list with 14 people.

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asked me: "what has your last year been like?"
"Friggin' awesome" would be too short for an answer, so here are some details: I started learning Vietnamese about two years ago and visited Vietnam (mostly Hanoi actually) previous autumn. I can't imagine any place more beautiful than that city and right now I really want to go back. Apart from culture and amazing people, Hanoi has an atmosphere of pure comfort, like everything around you exists just to make you happy. Er, of course, there were problems and bad days, but in general it was so good that me and my group were yelling "Arrgh!" in airport when going back to Moscow.
Before that I had a wonderful experience of Italy where my mother and I went on a summer vacation. We decided to be grown-up girls and go all by ourselves without guides and tours. Because with people telling you what to do and see it's really boring. Like in Disney's "Mulan": "We feel a lot like cattle".
Italy is one happy country, very sunny, very noisy, like festival all year. And VERY delicious food. I mean, it's like you can swallow your tongue along with it, it's that good. And I'm in love with Florence and Venice. Because I'm boring.
Rome is huge and ancient, but Florence is cozy and Venice has something watercolor in it. They have more story than history and Rome is the opposite. I love history, it's just too much of it.
Annddd! We managed to visit Ischia! It's an island in Italy, several little towns on a seaside and in the mountains. Oooh, the mountains.
Apart from being crazy traveler, I had university 24/7. I'm on a faculty of Oriental studies and it's amusing, but too tiring. Too. Much. Information. For this one little head.
So, something like that.

Questions are still welcome.

This journal must be updated, so let's play questions. Ask me anything and I'll make a post about it.

Moreover, summer.
In Russia right now it's raining and seems like an early autumn. A pity, I wanted to travel somewhere out of the city. You know, there are plenty of great places in my country. For example, everything between town Klin and Moscow. My beloved lives there and when I'm going to her by bus there are these wide fields and mysterious forests...
Wanna go. Right now.
T_T

Today there is a holiday in Vietnam. On 30 April 1975 Saigon has been set free and war has come to an end.
To my mind, it doesn't matter who was against who, the main thing is that the killing ended.
So, congratulations to those who care.

And in my country holidays will begin tommorow on May 1. It will be so-called "Labour Day", but, surprisingly, the whole country'll do nothing.
It amazes me each year.

And I'll have my own Big Day. Me and my brother are going to the pet shop for a new friend.
Tanoshimi ni.

If I had a talking picture of you,
I would run it every time I felt blue,
I would sit there in the gloom,
Of my lonely little room,
And applaud each time you whispered:
'I love you, love you!
(c)

It's amazing how simple things can be magical if they're done together. Drinking cofee or street walking, or even shopping.
I hate shopping. All this "Oh my god, do I look fat in this? And in this?".
And this, this and even this you look great, just leave me alone.
But are WE doing shopping? Nah, we are searching for adventures and finding treasures.
Don't we?

It's a pity, you come to my city rarely, once a month.
But it feel like a great Happening if you do. Thank you for that.

Am I talking about love too much recently?
Maybe, it's just weather. It'll pass.