When I first started to learn Russian, last year, my daughter was very supportive. She looked up films in Russian with English subtitles and sent me the link to them. Then she found someone on the internet who was offering to write a letter in Russian. When I received the letter it was alarming as written Russian is quite different from the printed words. I am only just beginning to use handwritten Russian, perhaps I could now reply to that letter. Next my son found me a keyboard with Russian characters. He showed me how to tell my computer to accept the Russian alphabet. This I can now do quite quickly. Maybe I will write a post in Russian some time soon. Before I have used Google translate to do this, but it is not very satisfactory. In any case I want to improve my Russian.My friends are also very tolerant of my great enthusiasm for all things Russian, a special mention goes to the friend Hazel who is coming to Russia with me in the summer.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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