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35 Portland Street

London

M1 3LA

01255 667654

15th November 2019

The Manager,

Quest Ltd.,

19 Trafford Road,

London,

M5 3AW

Dear Mr Black,

My name is Samantha Grint, and I am writing to enquire if you have any vacancies for sales staff now.

I am currently studying in The London School of Fashion and Design and I am going to work in fashion industry in the future. With its world famous name and educational program, Quest is exactly the type of company that I would like to work for.

I have excellent sense of fashion and communication skills. I can speak French and Russian fluently.

My CV attached. I would be grateful if you would consider me for the position of Visual Merchandiser or any similar vacancies.

I can attend an interview at any time that suits you.

Best regards,

Samantha Grint.

How to manage your time.

Time management is one of the most important skills in modern life. Everything is changing every minute and we need to catch every moment to be success now.

There are some tips for it.

Create the right environment to work.

Your workplace should be comfortable for you only. Someone wants to have some inspirational photos; someone can’t stand any distractive stuff on the desk.

Think about light, your chair and even your favorite pen.

But environment is not only about staff. People can be more irritating and distractive. Of course, not so often we have a chance to put away people that we don’t like but we can avoid conflicts and chatting with them.

List your tasks in terms of importance

Sometimes we have so many tasks and problems that we get lost in this mess. But in this case, you need just have a little break and decide what the most important is. So, stop, think and do a to do list in terms of importance. You can write down all the tasks into categories (for example, URGENT or CAN DO IT TOMMOROW).

Do important tasks first

It sounds clear but we all don’t want the hardest tasks. But it’s important to make yourself to do it.

Always keep some work with you

No, we don’t forget about break. But you have some time during the day when you are doing nothing but not relaxing. For example, when you’re commuting to the work. I personally use the time for create new ideas for new projects, because it can be difficult to be distracted at work with a lot of people around and just think.

If you were a cartoon character, who would you be?

I’d like to be Katara from the cartoon “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. She can control water and ice. She is smart, capable, caring heroine", moreover she is kind, brave, and passionate. But the main reason is that she travels with her friends around the world on their flying bison Appa.

How would you get an elephant into a refrigerator?

First of all, you need to be sure that the refrigerator is empty. If it’s not, you need to take out everything from there. Then you pun the elephant to the refrigerator and here we go!

Would the President of the United States make a good software engineer?

Yes, he would. But not the current one. Have you heard about the last meme? Trump said that USA and Italy had had the connection since Ancient Rome.

What is normal person like?

Well, normal is relative. It depends on your upbringing, your environment, even your country of residence.

I like the fact that the concept of normalness is changing. So we’re going to the idea that everyone can be who they want to be.

There is kind of difficult to stand out from the crowd by your clothes or your look today. It is not shocking or surprising to have tattoos or wear extremely colorful outfit, especially here, in Moscow or in SPB. But there are some people who get people looking around when they are walking by.

I have some of them in my environment.

Some years ago my friend and I had dinner in a sushi restaurant. There was a waiter with long color hair, make-up and really long violet nails. His face was super cute, so we had a little argue who he (she, they) was. That person was an androgyne, so we discussed about that: boy or girl he was.

Everything became clear when he came to us to take the order. His voice was certainly man.

Unlike me, my friend Katya always was very communicating and talkative. So there was a day when we met Andryusha the Queen.

He was a make-up artist, a drag queen and he worked as a waiter in Dve Palochki. He never cared what people could say about him. He could wear crazy outfit and make-up to go to a supermarket. He argued with old women and creepy guys on bus stops. Despite his short stature and girly appearance, he was a leader in our company. Everyone looked up to him. He was an expert in everything, not only in make-up. He knew how to paint a wall, how to build a bookcase. Once he told us how to manage with periods’ pain.

Moreover, he was extremely creative. He made up so many cool and crazy ideas for our flat interior. But most of his creativity went to his drag queen looks. His outfits were incredibly beautiful, original and always well made. Once he made a dress from playing cards for his Lady Gaga performance.

Thing that I always liked in him was that he always was himself. He didn’t try to pretend to be someone else. He was loud about his sexuality, his appearance, his opinions. He wasn’t afraid to stand up for his view of life, so he was a person got people following him.

Stonehenge is one of the most famous monument in a world. It consists of a ring of huge standing stones.

There are too many theories about the origin of Stonehenge.

My favorite one is linked to Merlin. The greatest wizard told Giants to take huge stones from Africa to Ireland and then stand it in that place. There was a burial site for England kings and queens.

Of course, scientists have another opinion about that.

Some of them consider that Stonehenge was a giant observatory because of stones position related to astronomical events.

Some of them tell about druids and their rituals. But most of scientists suppose that it was the burial site, because a lot of remains were found there.

I was there some years. I don’t know about paranormal sense or something like that. The stones are smaller then you can imagine. But, of course, it’s still a really huge monument. So you can’t understand what it is and why it is.

Travis Walton’s story looks like every story with aliens’ abduction just with some additional details. I don’t believe in aliens and I suppose every that story is just a fiction to draw attention or a consequence of some mental issues.

Several guys in the forest have seen something strange. We don’t know anything about them, may be, they were just drunk or high. There is nothing about it in the article and we can suppose they hadn’t taken anything outlawed.

But there could be something in the forest like chemical gas or just some toxic plant. And guys in the car were influenced by this gas or substation for little time. But his colleague went out and got a massive dose of poison or something like that. And he just got crazy, his brain couldn’t manage with that.

Of course, everyone was passed the lie detector. They just believed in it but, I guess, everything was a part of their vivid sick imagination.

Ok, right. I don’t believe in supernatural however things in my past tell me a different story. I have some questionable situations that I can’t explain.

I had to live in different places in Moscow with a long history. Old buildings always have something strange.

But I have not only scary stories. I was living in a flat with somebody or something that Russians call Domovoy. And we even have some traditions with this supernatural spirit as I can call him.

I had some experience with him. All of the stories connected with missing stuff. When it started, I tried to explain this with logic. But even if I was certainly sure where I put a thing I couldn’t find this one the next day. It was irritating! This missing stuff was always really necessary but I couldn’t do anything and I never saw these things after this, unfortunately. You need not too many efforts to check all your small flat but there was nothing.

And nothing helped, we tried everything that we knew. It’s difficult not to feel like an idiot when you were pouring some milk in the platter and saying weird stuff like “Please, be gentle Mr Domovoy”. But this strange guy didn’t help us to find our stuff. May be It was just our distraction, who knows.

The craziest day of the week.

Nothing foretold troubles, when some days ago I really slowly and sleepy got ready for work.

I saw that my client called me at 9 am but I decided not to take her call because I knew that it wasn’t anything important. Her work day starts at 9, but my work day starts at 10:30. And she likes to call just to talk about some not important staff of our projects.

I understood I was late, but it was OK and at 9:50 I was on my way to the metro. The client was calling me again and I answered. We discussed some things (not too important) and at the end of the call she said that she was waiting me at the meeting. And at this moment I remembered about this meeting. I called my colleague and he said that the meeting was at 10.

NICE!

I hadn’t my work laptop and all my documents and I was really far away from client’s office. It was 9:55.

I run home as fast as I can, took my MacBook, got a taxi and tried not to panic.

Of course, I got stuck in all morning traffic jams and I came to the client at 11. But nobody noticed this because there was my colleagues’ part at the beginning of the meeting and I came in at the moment when they finished their speech.

The meeting was OK, but I decided that I need a break because of the crazy morning. I said my boss that I needed to go to the doctor.

After the meeting I went to the office, did some work tasks and went to the Improv battle.

There are a lot of comedy show in Moscow because of Panchline festival. I really wanted to go to Improv shows but all shows were at the working time.

The battle was really great and Arseniy from Improvisation on TNT was the judge. I like the both teams, there were Moscow and SPB. But the Moscow team was stronger and funnier and they won.

After the show I met my girls Anya and Viola and we went to another bar to have dinner. And there was a stand up show too in this bar but we decided just to eat and drink some alcohol there and chat about everything, of course.

When I came home and got on the bad I couldn’t believe in it. It seemed like I was lying in my bed not enough.

it was a really long emotional day.

August is the best time for parties, birthdays and weddings.

Besides the wedding of Vanya and Nelya there were the sassiest party of the summer – it was Viola’s birthday.

Why was it the party of the summer?

Viola turned 25 and she decided to invite all her friends. And she has too many friends.

Also, it was interesting because it was the first time when she gathered friends from two group: we, her colleagues, ex-colleagues and he Armenian diaspora.

And in the beginning of the evening we all divided into two groups. Not special but it happened.At some point we came out outside and when we came back we saw that everyone there were dancing lezginka. It was hilarious. It seemed like the other part waited when we went out to do it. But this kind of changed the mood of the party and everyone in our Russian part was really glad to see this in real life and we all became more relaxed.

After this Tima Belorusskih’s Nezabudka started and nobody remembered about the tension before.

And Tatu, Diskoteka Avariya, Zvery made us the best friends there. And a lot of alcohol, of course, too.

Also we create the idea of the party and it was glitter everywhere. It was too nice to see all our serious boys with gold stars on their faces, especially on Armenian boys. But this is so cool that no one refused to do this.

I’ve lost the moment when almost all my friends decided to get married.

But it’s still MY friends and even that special event as wedding became something crazy and cool.

It began from a couple of two our friends Nelya and Vanya.

What I can say about them?

Vanya looks like crazy genius scientist with his handlebar mustache and funny mess on his head. He likes rock music, leather jackets and hand made staff. And he always gets into strange or awkward situations.

Nelya is the same. I can’t see so similar people and they’re so great for each other.

Their wedding was unusual and it was really fun to get there.

First of all, they said they didn’t have a dress code and we could be dressed like we wanted.

Also, they decided to withdraw from all Russian wedding traditions and it was just a big party for all our friends but with throwing the wedding bouquet away, of course.

There were many fun activities for guests. For example, we created hashtags for the event and our hashtag won. It was the hashtag #loveproduction because Vanya works in advertising production and Nelya is a professional in video production.

But not all Vanya’s friends were willing not to have traditional wedding staff. And some girls stole the bride. Vanya was so angry about it because everyone there knew that the newlyweds were against it. The bride was saved and we went to dance again.

It was really nice and fun event and our friend Viola caught the bouquet, so we are ready for her wedding in Abkhazia.

LET’S GO OUTSIDE!

THE FIRST STREET CULTURE FESTIVAL IN THE TOWN.

Where: main streets and the main square of the town

When: the first Sunday of the Summer

What:

Street art

We’ll build a huge wall made of quality but cheap materials, where the artists can express their imagination. Also, the part of the wall will be used for workshops for all guests where famous artists will educate everyone how to paint.

After festivals the parts of the wall can be used as a décor installation in parks, playgrounds and bus stops.

Street sport

Everyone can watch the performances and competitions as well as take part in them.

We want to invite the professionals in different types of street sport:

· Skateboarding and longboardind

· BMX

· Streetball

· Parkour

· Balance boarding

· Trampoline sport

Street music

There will be a lot of performances on the main stage. During all day there will sing local bands, and at the end of the day the headliner will sing his main hits.

Headliners to choose:

· Ed Sheeran

· Niall Horan

· James Bay

Moreover, there will be the music corners in different places of the main streets. There anyone wishing can stay, turn on the mike and just sing or play instruments. There will all that you need to perfume^ mikes, electricity and securities.

Street food

There will the specials zones with different types of street food: Chinese, Indian, Japanese and, of course, a lot of local little restaurants with delicious meals.

All of businesses can stay on streets and sell his food but we take some fee for this.

Street fashion

We have so many local shops with cool street clothes and shoes. They can rent places for their corners on the streets and sell their things for the fee.

Street dancing

All day we want to organize performances of many our local breakdance bands.

Also, one hour before all our dancers will come together in one spot in front of the main stage and the host organize a huge dance flash mob with the crowd.

Streets for kids

In addition, that kids can safely and fun take part in all types of our activities (with their parents, of course) we invite to our event all kids’ heroes: cartoon characters, superheroes, their favorite famous toys who make fun, communicate and play with the kids on the streets.

Promotions:

Everyone in the town waits annual the Mayor’s Big Event. We just need to say the day and what there will be.

We promote the event by:

· Local TV and Radio (announcements, mentions on the News)

· Local newspapers (Ad, interviews with the Mayor and the producers)

· Billboards and posters on the streets

· The headliner’s announcement in Social Media and Local TV.

Make money:

· The fees from the sellers

· Pay toilets

· Tracks with drink water and ice cream

· The VIP concert’s ticket. The concert will be free for everyone, but we’ll sell the best places in front of the stage for the huge fans of the headliner.

· The meet and greet tickets. We can make a “meet and greet “with our headliners and sell the tickets there.

If it rains

There will be a lot of big umbrellas and tents where people can save from heatwave and rain.

Also, we can sell cheap raincoats to make some money too.

This event will be really popular because adult and young people can spend time together with fun, eat some great food and enjoy the music, the atmosphere and each other’s company.

Sarcastic but not offensive

How to be good in sarcasm, understand and not to offence somebody and not to be offended?

I really love sarcasm and use it kind off often in my routine live in communication with my friends and colleagues. But not everyone can laugh at that, sometimes it seems insulting. People think I poke fun at them.

You know, the most famous example of the person who can’t understand sarcasm is Sheldon Cooper. His best friend Leonard even made the sign with the word SARCASM and Sheldon has been trying to understand sarcasm during the several seasons.

I can say that sarcasm is like art or like skill that you can train.

Sarcasm is a part of humor, and without humor it’s harder to understand some jokes mistaken its for some pejorative comments about your work, appearance or personality.

Sense of humor is something that you can’t count. But we say, this person has bad sense of humor, or that guy doesn’t have sense of humor, or I like him, his sense of humor is perfect.

We can improve our sense of humor to read more books or watch more humor shows on TV. When you have bigger vocabular you understand more jokes and see where sarcasm is or not. Find and use more synonyms and antonyms, try to know ambiguity of words. You virtually can find out a lot new thongs and expand your outlook.

Your sarcasm shouldn’t be too insulting. It can be at the edge but it’s your best skill to say something sarcastic but not rude.

Also you always should remember where, what and whom you tell the jokes. Sarcasm can be precise and self-explanatory. Everyone around you laughs and you’re the funny guy in your company.

And one of the main secrets of good sarcasm is to be serious. In case, you say something sarcastic with laugh, it became just a joke. You need just your irony, poker face and full of sarcasm imagination.

Let’s be sarcastic now 😊

Holistic approach to living

If you haven’t watched BBC’s tv-series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective, go and watch it right now.

There are just two seasons which blew up on social media in 2016. We shipped the main characters, admired female heroines, found out that Elijah Wood was still cute and, of course, we wondered why Zhenya Kalinkin from Smetana TV and Dirk Gently had the same face.

I can’t retell you the plot, but a lot of people confuse the word ‘holistic’. The main idea of the show is that all things are bound together, intertwined, including the little merely passing corgi.

OK, now let’s talk about holistic routine in our lives.

Holistic health is the health of body, brain and spirit. Simply put, our general health depends not only on the condition of our physical body but also on other things that we must care about:

Home Environment that relaxes and welcomes you,

Spirituality to soothe and comfort your soul

Fun Fitness to keep your body active and strong

Healthy food to energize and fuel your body

Career that motivates you and inspire a higher purpose

Relationship to nurture and uplift you

You just need to work on every aspect to become the best version of yourself.

Therese Frare is a woman who has changed the face of AIDS.

Therese Frare was a young journalist who was a volunteer in the AIDS hospice. There she met David Kirby who had been a famous gay activist before he got there. She took some photos of David and his family and after that one of this photo changed the perception of AIDS in the world.

It’s not just the photo of the 32-year-old man on his deathbed and it’s not just the heartbreaking moment. It humanized AIDS, the disease that killed Kirby, at a time when it was ravaging victims largely out of public view.

It showed how the widely misunderstood disease devastated more than just its victims. It would be another year before the red ribbon became a symbol of compassion and resilience, and three years before President Bill Clinton created a White House Office of National AIDS Policy.

“We just felt it was time that people saw the truth about AIDS,” Kirby’s mother Kay said. Thanks to Frare’s image, they did.

There was a lack od awareness about AIDS in 1990s. People called the disease is gay, like fun, and thought that only gay people could suffered from AIDS.

This photo changed the tendency. The people who saw this family tragedy understood that gay people could have strong relationship and close people next to them and it always hurts when you lose the ones you love.

The volunteer from the hospice Barb Cordle said the Therese Frare’s picture had made more than any other to soften people's hearts on the AIDS issue. “You can’t look at the picture and hate a person with AIDS. You just can’t”.

I’d like to nominate J.K.Rowling. This woman who gave us the whole new universe.

Her books became the best-selling book series in history.

Before that, no one had ever believed in her. She suffered from depression, she had problems with money and relationship in family.

Finally, she finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and only the one publishing house – Bloomsbury – gave her work green light. By the way, the decision to publish Rowling's book owes much to Alice Newton, the eight-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury's chairman, who was given the first chapter to review by her father and immediately demanded the next.

And the story began.

Rowling won a lot of awards and success of every new book and film was astonishing! The new magic universe was born.

Rowling has billions of fans all over the word and now we can’t imagine if she hadn’t given us this story!

She changed the world and made us to believe in magic, friendship and good!

We can say that her behavior is strange, especially now. But can’t deny, we are grateful and appreciated her talent and her magic world.

By 3000 BC people in ancient Egypt had invented the candle.

In 1767 English chemist Joseph Priestley invented the sparkling water.

Today we’ve invented the Internet and we can like our favorite memes there.

Russian scientists believe that within 10 years we will have a solution how to not turn off the hot water every summer in Russia.

By the time we’re old we will have bought flying cars for every family.

You know the moment when you go to the cinema at random. You don’t know anything about movie but you need to kill some time.

Some years ago, I watched a movie about Russian bloggers, and it was atrocious!

The plot wasn’t original, and it was deadly dull even for teens and kids, I guess.

Actors, if we can call them so, are awful. I can’t even say it was mediocre or shallow. They were worse than Pugovka in Russian TV-show Papiny dochki. But Pugovka was 5 years old.

Moreover, they were playing themselves – bloggers, but it didn’t help them.

70% of the film consist of animation. And the director of the movie is Timur Bikmambetov. When you hear this name, you expect phenomenal special effects, but not in this movie. I see that all animation was made up and drawn by a boy on the "computer science" class.

In conclusion, I want to ask if the team of the movie wanted to say that Russian bloggers are idiots and Russian film industry sucks. If they did, they could do it. Congratulations!

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