среда, 4 мая 2011 г.

...Munich Adventure...

 

One evening I returned home after quite difficult day, poured a cup of tea, played my favorite music and… suddenly understood that I had strong fatigue with 
 numerous exasperating problems and prohibitions. The first thought that arose in my head was an airport. I didn’t waste time. A taxi was ordered. I didn’t know where I could fly, but I was sure that I was in need of it. I wanted to be in any place, but not in that town, so I decided to afford a spontaneous adventure.
When the taxi took me in the airport, I have already known what place I wanted to visit -  Germany, Munich. It was a bit of luck that a limit of activity of Shengen visa didn’t expire. I was thankful to my boss, who gave to me a month ago a serious errand to visit Berlin for special meeting. By the way it was very successful conversation in English and it made me more cocksure.
When I found yourself at the Passport control in Munich I recalled that I didn’t care about my accommodation. 
I was so tired, that any berth was a great happiness for me. I took a taxi and asked the driver to drop me off in center of the town. 

When I arrived there it was almost 5 a.m. and I was lucky to observe a wonderful dawn above huge, sleeping, foreign but extremely beautiful city. 


 I was strolling across deserted streets in search of a hotel, and suddenly saw an entrance in a civil park. But, of course, at first I saw its name – “Porthole”, it was funny and attractive simultaneously. As it was my adventure I decided to go for a walk across this park.


Porthole” was wonderful, I couldn’t believe my eyes, there were a lot of lakes with waterfalls, flamingos, parrots, flowers. I saw a bench and decided to have some rest and enjoy that miracle. And… my eyes closed by themselves.

I woke up from strange scraping sound. I quickly looked round and saw a stranger sitting near me on the same bench. He had dark sleek hair, beautiful features, and very pleasant scent. Stranger started speak German rather fluency, but I couldn’t understand him at all. He was quite loquacious and told me something with a passion. Of course it was tactlessly to interrupt him and I kept silence, but my patience was almost over. In 15 minutes he asked me something, I was waiting for this moment. I smiled grimly and started to speak Russian like revenge. I told him how I turned out in this town, about all my problems and how I want to sleep, but at the end I said him that he was very beautiful to be German. He was listening to me with a great interest and I thought that he just had good demeanour… till the moment when he started to speak Russian! I was shocked. He told me that he lives in Munich already 10 years  and owns this unusual park, for a long time he found a person who can speak  him native language and who has so kindred soul. I couldn’t believe, I liked him more and more, it was like a dream…

An alarm-clock was ringing. It was 7 a.m. – time to wake up for new difficult day. Oh no! I was extremely sad. It was just beautiful dream…
I wanted to fall asleep again and buried my head in the pillow, but something was under it. I found some paper by feeling. I got out the pillow and saw a beautiful envelope with flamingos. I couldn’t help feeling great emotion.

I opened it quickly and saw a ticket…

                                                               
                                                                Ticket to Munich. ;)




пятница, 8 апреля 2011 г.

O. Henry "Makes the whole world kin" (essay)


O. Henry is a master of humor in American literature. I like “Makes the whole world kin” very much! In that story he describes rather spreading situation from the criminal world, but he presents it in an unusual clue. The author uses mocking and ironic tone, his heroes are full of love and kindness despite on their nefarious occupation. The funniest moment for me – when the burglar offers the citizen to drink some Booze together, what is funnier -  free for the second one. I think the author wanted to tell that human feelings hide in any person and in his stories we find out about them in the most unexpected moment. The title, in my opinion, is quite appropriate to the sense of the story, as the main idea of it as I think that is all people are equal, they all have the same problems, opinions, in a word - familial souls. It shouldn’t forget about it and cause distress other people, because they are the same as you.