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Coming to America wasn't an easy step to make but I've made it.
And here I am, a little tree in the big forest. Stumbling against the rules of new life in a new country I am trying to enjoy it as much as I can. The first and the most important thing for me

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Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Learning a foreign language: 1 of 10

MASTER THE LANGUAGE I am discovering America! Using my hands and grimaces on my face wasn't enough to make myself understandable anymore. People got frustrated, listening to my "explanations" and so did I. What's more, my illiteracy had caused me a lot of stupid and funny misunderstandings. I'll give you one example. Once I ...
Education > Special Education Is the "No child left behind" law leaving children behind?: 3 of 26

LITTLE THINGS The "No Child Left Behind" program sounds like a good plan. Better late than never. After more then 200 years of hard thinking, people came to the conclusion that each person in this country should know how to read, write and even count. However, it is mind-boggling that it took so long to realize that the more...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Suspense: 25 of 188

THE CHESS GAME "You are not telling the truth, sir." Detective Richardson looked straight into the eyes of a man with a glass of whisky in his hand. James Watt frowned and nervously sipped from the glass. "I've told you everything I know." "Let's go through your story again, sir." Detective Richardson put his hand into the i...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: The mail: 2 of 14

LETTERS FROM MY FRIENDS. "Dear son! I am very glad that you are all right and I am looking forward to seeing you soon. I didn't hear from you for such a long time that I was worried." These are the words that my mother usually begins her letter with. The words brim over with love and anxiety. And I read them with the same ki...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Pets: 25 of 127

KUBA (pronounce Cooba) Kuba was neither our acquaint nor a friend nor even a cousin but despite all we knew that sooner or later he would show up. For some time we were expecting his arrival but we didn't know that it would be so soon. He looked around with an excitement and from time to time emitted an inarticulate sound. A...
Entertainment > TV Networks & Industry Too many commercials: Are they strangling TV?: 3 of 15

HOW DUMB ARE WE? There are many ways to determine how dumb we are and one of them is a TV commercial. It seems that people who make these thirty seconds or so "movies" think that they are smarter than the rest of us. And it appears that the TV networks have the same idea about our intelligence. Each of the TV networks bombar...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Funny stories from the doctor's office: 19 of 47

A PAINFUL VISIT "Have you been here before?" asked the receptionist when I showed up at the doctor's office. "No." "Please be seated," she pointed to a chair, "fill out the form and bring it back to me. The doctor will be with you in a moment." After twenty minutes of admiring the waiting room walls I got a little nervous. "...
Arts & Humanities > Art History How to tell if it's a 'work of art': 8 of 19

THE EXPERT. A man and a woman were slowly walking along the white wall with a few pictures hanging on it. They stopped in front of one of them. There was nothing unusual in their behavior, except one thing - they stopped in front of the painting that was mine. It just so happened, that looking for a place to live and after c...
Entertainment > Music (Other) Radio stations offer repetitive music: 3 of 7

RADIO Driving a car is fun. It takes you wherever you want to go and doesn't matter when you want to go. It is also equipped with many gadgets that make your trip comfortable. The most common thing installed in almost every vehicle is a radio. You may turn it on when you want to listen to it and turn it off when it is distur...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Customer service: 18 of 39

THE COURTESY THAT KILLS ME The shop window looked tempting. All the merchandise displayed in it seemed to call - "Come and get me!" Without any hesitation I pushed the door. "May I help you?" a young woman approached me with a broad smile on her face. She was pretty. Eying her up and down I raised my left eyebrow as I though...