Habibullo-Eugene Kiselev

A Synopsis of my Life
2017-04-26 12:31:00 (UTC)

April 26th, 2017, Wednesday, 12:31:00 p.m.

Yekaterinburg, Russia. GMT 05:00
I have gone through a plethora of emotions and spiritual experiences lately. Apropos: I will not only be writing about my creative activity as a littérateur, but also about my scientific, pedagogical work and religious searchings in this journal, for I am deeply convinced, that this will diversify the content of this paper of mine and it will also make it more enjoyable to read.
Okay. About a week ago, the headmistress of the “Meridian” language school,Vera Petrovna Vozhagova (Russian: Вера Петровна Вожагова), gave me a call and offered me some work as an ESL teacher for schoolchildren, while their ESL teacher is on maintenance of her pregnancy. I agreed. When I had finished my classes on Wednesday, I was cross, for I was completely dissatisfied with the way I taught my pupils. Apropos: I am deeply convinced, that I should teach English like a native speaker! No less. This Wednesday evening something changed drastically in my mind: I spent the night (until 2 a.m.) learning the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English by heart. I almost succeeded in that. Moreover, I have been using English ONLY to think and ponder since that time. It is like I have activated English in my brains. This is definitely a new step for me in becoming a true native speaker of English. I do need it. As I say, Russian is the first language of my body, whereas English is the first language of my spirit. This does not depend on me, on my will and desires. Not at all. I kind of switched my mind into English. YEAH! I have been reading a lot of good English literature since that time. My Teacher of poetry, prose and literary criticism, Eugene Lobanov, has long been telling me about that. I have received a kind of a great push to become better.
My literary work is not progressing at the moment. However, I have recently written a new poem in English and I wish I could give it to a poet from Egypt, Essama Chiba (Arabic: عصامة شيبا), for criticism. I hope, this will happen soon.




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