The first money I earned in my life.
My first “perceptible” salary I’ve earned in the USA this summer. I’ve lived in a tiny resort town right near the Great Lake Superior, not far from the border with Canada: there were only trees and deer, nothing more. I worked in the restaurant at the top of the mountain and every day I went up and down by gondola – it’s not a boat! - it’s a little cabin, which goes like chair lifts.
My job included everything what can be made in a restaurant: I was cashier, cook(mostly), dish-washer, waiter – all in one. On weekends there usually were weddings – it was rather interesting to look how they celebrate it, but at the same time rather difficult, because we worked about 14 hours without time for lunch or a minute rest. I’ve got my first salary in 10 days after arriving. Oh, it was a happy day, believe me. We’ve celebrated it better than they celebrate weddings:). But there was no place to spend money and I had to wait 2 more weeks before I had an opportunity to go to the bigger city. As you understand, there my salary disappeared just in a couple of hours:).

As we can see the main character is rather lonely, because he lives with his housekeeper only and bees in a small cottage in a country. His life is very quite, almost nobody visits him. He likes to walk along the shore, he is serious and thoughtful. We can’t say exactly if he likes his loneliness or he just has to live alone because of some reasons.

If you could invent something new in our today’s world what would it be?
Can you imagine how many times you’ve heard something like “oh, my skin looks so tired” or “I hate this wrinkles round my eyes” or “I’ve tried everything already, but I can’t get rid of this awful cellulite” and so on and so forth. It is really difficult to find a woman who is absolutely satisfied with her appearance and as we can see most problems concern our skin.
Although there are so many different cosmetic companies trying to produce better crème, so many injections you can make in a beauty parlour, finally, plastic surgery, but this problem is still actual and demands a lot of money and time. You can’t be sure what exactly will help you, and some remedies can be very expensive or even dangerous.
So, I would like to invent an elixir or a crème, which will help with any problem and will be absolutely safe for health. No more fat or dry skin – only normal, no more wrinkles – only smooth and resilient skin at any age, no more pimples, stretchings or cellulite, just beautiful, shining, healthy body, all your life! And no more hundreds of tubes in your bathroom and bedroom, but only one, which solves any problem.
Moreover, this invention will make male population happy, because of at least 2 reasons: first – they will be indescribibly glad to see their wives or girlfriends beautiful all the time, second – money questions concern mostly men, so it is a great economy – one tube instead of hundreds.
Isn’t it wonderful?

Who is Kevin? What has happened?
Kevin is a student of Cambridge University. He earns his money cheating people in casino, he is an adroit swindler. Kevin is going to win this night too, 30000$ are at a stake, he’s nervous. That girl near the bar is an observer and now she put her hand into her hair, giving him a sign that something is wrong. Kevin understands that he has to get out of there but his winnings are so close…

Changes
What can I say about changes? How important are they in our life?
As everybody knows changes can be good or not so good, but they always bring something new. Somebody waits for them, somebody is scared about them, somebody doesn’t want anything becomes different, but, anyway, sooner or later, they come and turn our life upside down and we hardly can do anything to prevent it. Actually, nobody knows what will happen and which consequences will follow.
I think changes bring motion, excitement, passion to our life, they make us know that there are still a lot of things and feelings we hadn’t experienced yet. We can learn a lot out of them. Changes open the new horizons for us, make us go forward, get over the troubles and appreciate the happy moments of our life.

If I were to stay at a certain age for the rest of my life – which age will it be and why?
I think, it’s not very good idea to stay at a certain age for the rest of your life, because every age is interesting in it’s own way. They are so different, each of them brings something new and fascinating to your life.
Actually, if I should make a choice, I’d prefer to stay at the age of 30. It’s the age when everything is more or less certain - you have education, good job, family. You are beautiful and healthy, you have a lot of energy and you are ready for new discoveries, you have a lot of ambitions, plans, dreams and the best thing is – you already have some money to make these things come true. You know who you are and what you want of your life. I suppose, it’s a wonderful age, I hope so, anyway, I’ll have a chance to check it.
By the way, I’ve often heard from old people that their souls are still young, only their bodies become older. So, maybe somehow we really stay at some certain age for the rest of our lives?