How I communicate with my friends

Well, I like talking with my friends and try to do it every day. I think that the best way to communicate with my friends is to meet them face to face. This sort of communication helps me to understand a person’s feelings and gives me a great pleasure. I can see my friend’s emotions through gesture, body language, posture, facial expression and eye contact. 

I have classes at the institute five days a week and I can meet my friends there. We like to discuss interesting news, films and books. Unfortunately, I can’t meet  my former classmates very often, but I talk with them by phone at least twice a week. I usually speak to them on the phone, because for me it’s like a real face to face communication. I can feel voice quality, emotion and speaking style, as well as rhythm, intonation and stress. Some of my friends live and study in other cities and even countries, so it’s too expensive to talk with them by phone. Instead of that I use Skype, e-mail and social networking. Thanks to Skype I can even see my friends, although it’s not so good like real communication.

Of course, I check my e-mails twice a day. It’s one more way of my communication with friends. My friends often mail me and I answer their messages. I use texting from time to time and always use emoticons. I think that emoticons are a very nice way to express your emotions and attitudes to other people. I also use texting when I want to send very important and urgent news to my friends.

To sum it up, I want to add that all these ways of communication are very useful and important in our life. It helps us to stay in touch and have more close relationships.

The Carnival of Venice.

The Carnival of Venice is truly an amazing event. Last year  my friends and I were lucky enough to attend the festival and experience it ourselves.

The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival starts 40 days before Easter and ends on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday or Martedi Grasso), the day before Ash Wednesday.

The Carnival started as a time for celebration and expression of obliteration of bounds throughout the classes, as wearing masks hid any form of identity between social classes. During the 1970s, the Italian government decided to bring back the history and culture of Venice, and sought to use the traditional Carnival as the centerpiece of their efforts.

Today, approximately 30,000 visitors come to Venice each day for Carnivals. One of the most important events is the contest for the best mask, held  at the last weekend of the Carnival. A jury of international costume and fashion designers votes for "La Maschera piu bella".

We stayed in the Antico Capon Hotel. It is a very friendly, family-run place situated on one of the city’s most atmospheric squares, in the heart of the student district. We had breakfast at one of the cafes on the square. Prices in this hotel are hugely varied, so we booked our rooms in advance.

My friends and I bought traditional carnival masks and we took part in the party which was organized in our hotel by the owner. We met with many interesting people and, participated in the contest of masks.

The owner of the hotel organized a holiday supper with traditional Italian dishes which were delicious and tasty. All people were in festive dresses and at the end of the day we had a chance to see salute in celebration of  the festival.

This party was fun and entertaining. The memory of the happy music and the colorful costumes will stay with me all my life. It was an occasion I’ll always remember and I hope I will have the chance to go there again next year. 

My favourite gadget - Cintique 12WX

 

Today I want to tell you about my favorite electronic thing.  It’s Cintiq Pen Display for drawing by Wacom. Wacom is a Japanese company. But there are a lot of offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

I like drawing very much and this thing helps me in my hobby.  The Cintiq family of interactive pen displays enables creative professionals to work naturally and intuitively by using Wacom's patented, professional pen technology directly on the surface of an LCD display.

In this picture you can see what Cintiq looks like. It’s quite expensive, but a very useful and brand-new gadget. These high-quality displays offer world-class levels of precision, control and comfort for editting digital images, applying effects and filters, sketching, painting and modeling.

This gadget is very handy for users, because it offers working with traditional brushes and markers while offering all the benefits of a digital workflow. The Cintiq's scratch-resistant glass surface is completely flat from edge to edge, allowing the hand to glide easily over the entire surface. They also come equipped with finger-sensitive Touch Strips and ExpressKeys that can be customized to execute commonly-used shortcuts and modifiers to speed and simplify any workflow.

Cintiq can support applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Sketch Book Pro, Corel Painter and hundreds of other applications.

To sum it up, I can say drawing with the help of this gadget is very comfortable and gives me enormous pleasure and helps me to turn my ideas into pictures.

Internet in my life.

I think young people of today can’t live without the Internet.

As for me, I use the Internet to watch films and communicate with friends. I also read news in the Internet instead of reading newspapers. The Internet helps me to find information very quickly. Some people think that there are a lot of fake in the Internet, but I believe if you are critical about things you find there, you will see  if the information is true or not.   

  

The Internet gives us a lot of opportunities to visit foreign countries without leaving your flat. Many people have no money or sometimes they have problems with their health and can’t go abroad and enjoy amazing sights. The Internet enables them to see the best museums, galleries and gives people a chance to have a look at towns and cities, architectural monuments and famous works of art.

The Internet helps us to find friends all over the world. We can contact each other without problem. Some people think that it’s less likely to have a lasting friendship in the Internet, because everything moves fast and changes all the time. But I am sure that it isn’t true, because if people have common interests they will maintain their communication and even friendship in real life. 

I like painting and I have many friends in the Internet who share my interest. We discuss our new works and paintings, different methods of graphic and drawing, new exhibitions. We communicate with each other not only via Internet, but in real life too. But the Internet gives us a chance to talk more often.

The Internet also helps me in my studies, especially in my English and Japanese lessons. I prefer to watch Japanese and American films without subtitles. I like downloading unadapted books and read them when I have free time. I also want to add that the Internet helps people who live far from big cities to buy books or gadgets online, for example.

You can use the Internet not only for study and work, but for fun. There are a lot of online games in the Internet and you can create your own teams. I think it develops esprit de corps and comradeship.

To sum it up, we can’t imagine modern life without the Internet. So, I think the Internet gives us a lot of benefits and we should appreciate the Internet and appreciate the opportunities which it gives us. 

                            Even this cat can't live without Internet.