Jane

"It´s pouring cats and dogs". That drizzly day, Jane was late for her date with Andrew, a young man in his thirties, who chatted up her two months ago. The first days Jane thought Andrew was a complete impostor because he always talked about business travels all over the world, astounding places and a riveting life. Moreover, he always took her out to have dinner on expensive plus posh restaurants, picked her up on a luxurious and compelling car and made her some beautiful gifts. Everything was so perfect, maybe too much to be real.

Nevertheless, Andrew was real, absolutely perfect. A fantastic, entirely honest and stunning man. So, Jane started to see him frequently while she noticed she was in love with Andrew. Weeks passed by giving large strolls holding hands, muttering to each other about true love and other stupid and mellifluous things and planning their future together.

Regarding the future, they had talked about many things. Not only did he want to marry her, but he also wanted to have children with Jane. And it is children that Jane most feared about. Despite she loved children, Jane could never have one, because she had a medical problem. A few years ago, she suffered a terrible cervical cancer, pretty invasive. She overcame it but, unfortunately, the doctors had to make her a womb extraction. By the time, she was engaged to another man, who split up with her when he knew she would have no children.

There, in the hospital, completely alone, Jane took a risky decision that horrible day. If any man wanted to be with her, she had to tell him about her secret before she would be deploy in love with him. In that way, she would suffer less. So, that drizzly and cold night, in which a snowdrift was comming, Jane had decided to tell Andrew about her health problems, before time would spend more and it would cost more to tell it. It was so late, thus she said bye to her dog, which swiched its tail and pulled at the door, which squeaked a little bit. She walked in a rush whereas she swore she would never make the same mistake again.

 

Best Programmes of Figure Ice-Skating (Men)

Hi colleages!!!!

Today I´m going to share with you the best programmes of figure skating in men cathegory. As I said on the other entries, there are a lot of skaters you know. However, there are many of them you not. This entry will be a Little bit extensive of links, but I have to say all of them worth it. So, let´s start!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5tXcHa09JU Tatsuki Machida, beautifol short programme on the world championships 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UciW17pYzxw Jeremy Abbot, a gorgeous boy, pretty elegant. Free perfomance on the season 2012/2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaag382KuBY Daisuke Takahashi, short programme of the season 2013/2014, It was the olympic season. After the Olympic Games, he retired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsGyPUXHrNA  Philippe Candeloro, with a astounding a gripping choreography of The Four Musketeers. Many of the fans we are thaks to him and this programme. Free programme on the Nagano Olympic Games, 1998.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Frp6_A49U  The handsome Brian Joubert, fantastic perfomance, especially his sequency steps. This programme is on the Sochi Olympics, 2014. After that, he also retired, as Takahashi did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UlVeNEBFKE  Alexey Yagudin, his winter´s programme is knowledged for all over the gord. Short programme, 2002 Olympics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEJXkfMYTX4  The King, Evgeny Plushenko. This men is legendary. This programme is on 2009, absolutely incredible he did with the blades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkkLAGKnv3o This one is one of my favourite Ice Skaters, Stephane Lambiel, in 2010 Olympic Games with music of La Traviata. Hi is entirely elegant, what expression with his face and all his body!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY0WJ8PZD94  Jason Brown, a stunnish and impresive boy. Marvellous choreography always.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmazFXN8DWI The fantastic Patrick Chan. That day, on the trophee Eric Bompard on 2013 he bet the world record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJz8aKgYmb4 Our explendid Javier Fernández, with a Champlin choreography. That year he became on the european champion and he achieved the bronze medal on the worlds. Unspeecheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkyE120o1sQ And, of course, Yuzuru hanyu. Gripping and uplifting as ever.

Enjoy them, guys!

The Sad Story of Katya and Sergei

Hi colleages!

A few years ago, I promised to tell you about a pair of Figure Ice Skating. So, here is their terrible story:

In a skating rink they were known and on the ice good-bye was said forever. It was a November, twenty, 1995, a day of training as other one anyone in Lake Placid's chill track in New York. Nothing was making presage to them to Katya and to Sergei, that those would be his last united steps. They were testing a launch - a double axel-, Sheriosha took impulse to raise Ekaterina, since so often it had done along his professional career, but something failed and fell collapsed to the soil. Terrified Katusha took it in his arms with the hope of ques ólo it was a simple faint, but in the same instant that Katya took his hand he sensed beforehand of that everything had finished. His husband and also his pair of skating has just died in his lap, a heart attack had fulminated it twenty-eight years after age. Katusyha was remaining a widow with twenty-two years and a daughter of three, the small Dasha, and his life was stopping making sense because his great passion, the artistic skating, had just wrested him from his only and great love: his husband Sergei Grinkov.

While Ekaterina Gordeeva was trying to assume the happened, the world of the sport was waking up with the terrible news: Sergei Grinkov, the champion Olympian double, in the discipline of artistic skating in the category of pairs, victim had died of unataque to the heart. The best pair of all the times, nevermore would return to furrow of the hand a track of ice. Beethoven's Moonlight, with which they gained his second Olympian gold in 1994 in Lilliehammer - they are the only ones that have obtained it - and that never remained recorded in the memory of many fans as the best seen program, it sounded that fatidical November, twenty sadder than never.

Grinkov and Gordeeva knew themselves in the track of ice of the CSKA of Moscow, she had only four years and he eight. The two were training in solitarily, as individual skaters, nevertheless as the years went by his preparers thought that they would have more possibilities as pair, so they began to work together. The results were not late in coming and in the year 1985 they gained his first World júnior. But his goal was like for other many sportsmen the Olympian gold, and in Calgary, Canada, in 1988 they had his opportunity, and did not waste it, though in the way towards the gold they had to overcome any more than one reef.

A few months before the Olympian appointment, Ekaterina suffered a serious accident while he was training with Sergei. In an elevation the tiny Katusyha - that in those days was not reaching the 1,50 deestatura - it slipped of the arms of his companion and struck his/her/its head against the ice. As consequence of the fall, Katya was two months deposited the hospital and his Sheriosha - as her was calling affectionatly Grinkov - not even one stopped being going to see her only day. Sergei was feeling guilty for having allowed that one should damage Katya, it was not possible to excuse it. Even it managed to consider stopping training, but the small Katusyha did not allow it to him and he him remembered that the Olympics were waiting for them, so it had to continue working though she was in the hospital. It was in this time when Sergei discovered the great thing that his companion of track was importing for him. Without realizing he had fallen in love and thanks to this inopportune injury in his fight for reaching the Olympian dream his hearts had remained close forever. On the ice of Calgary they demonstrated that they were the best and with only fourteen and eighteen years they were crowned as the new kings of the skating. With the music of the Sleeping Beauty they rubbed the perfection and captivated the Canadian public but very few ones knew that the fairy-tale was on the verge of real making.

After gaining the Olympics and several championships of the world Gordeeva and Grinkov left the official competitions. They wanted to form a family, so they married and there was born his daughter Daría. Nevertheless two years later the small worm of the competition touched them again. In 1994 and for the first time in the history of a few Olympic Games professional skaters might compete. Lilihammer was offering them an opportunity that they could not reject: to be the first pair in obtaining the Olympian doublet. And in spite of the fact that there Russians were also Arthur Dimitriev and Natalia Miskutianov, the judges yielded themselves to the elegance and majesty opened by Gordeeva and Grinkov. Once again they had obtained it. They had come to the highest thing sportingly and were living happy together with his small one, until the tragedy surprised them. Probably, as he said in some occasion the own Katya " everything was too perfect to be royal ".

 At present Katya his life has re-done with also champion Olympian Illia Kullik. Together they have had a daughter Daria, but Gordeeva has not returned to marry.

Best Programme of Pairs on Figure Ice Skating

Hi mates!

Today is the turn of the pair´s cathegory, so, let´s talk about them! Many of the pairs you have Heard about, although not all of them. Let´s start:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RB5xnLhUnk  Stephania Berton & Ondrej Hotarek, with the soundtrack of Drácula. Free Programme on European Championships, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-awgE-mEuB8  Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford, with music composed by Eric, Short Programme on World Championships 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tArUv0nNns0  Vera Bazarova & Yury Larionov, they were sentimental partner too, whith music of Doctor Zhivago´s film, on the European Championships 2012. They split in 2014 after Olympics, proffessionaly and sentimentaly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU-KfPZOUsk  Ksenia Stolvoba & Fedor Klimov, music of Adam´s family. Olympics 2014, Free Programme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYuRHZMNCeE  Shue Shen & Honbo Zhao, with de magical Turandot, World Championships 2003, Free programme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqkCUEZBO8s  Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy, Free programme on the world Championships 2011. Aliona and Robin Split up in 2014 after the world championships and now Aliona is pair with Bruno Massot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm1mn8xcwcc  Same partner tan before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9L64Hbjiz4  Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov, on the Olympics of 1988. Thaugh history had this couple... Another day I´ll tell us, I promise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B0tSnQKzwo  The same parter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l30Ua6KTEfM  My favourite pair, Tatiana Volosozhar & Maxim Trankov, Olympics of 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8t1F9TtOsc  The same pair and the same scenery, this programme is the short perfomance

I hope you enjoy them a lot as I do!

Informal Letter Giving Information

You have received a letter from an English friend.

My manager has asked me to organise a fun run for everyone at work and I remember you doing the same thing last year. You couldn't give me some help, could you?
I'd like to know what kind of event it was, what went well and what didn't. Where do you think we should have the fun run?
Best wishes,
Alan

Hi Alan!

What's up? I'm so sorry for writing you this letter so late but I have no free time. As you know, I'm preparing for my C1 certificate and practising for my drivers licence. How can people say this is easy?

Anyhow, I hope it is not be too late to pass on some useful tips for the fun run. But more about than later! Listen, seldom do people want to participate in that kind of event, so it is necessary to give them a little push. In my case, I used attractive awards like free lunch for a week, free parking for a week too and a check for an amount of 300£. The majority of the company participated in the fun run!

Nevertheless, the path that I planned to move through was extremely difficult, with pretty changes and ramps. It was completely dangerous and risky and everybody arrived at the finish completely exhausted and almost dehydrated. Furthermore, a colleague suffered a terrible fall and she tore  a ligament in one of her arms and also had a hairline fracture in one of her knees.

Taking all of this into account I would recommend you doing the fun run at a place with an easy way to move through and there would be some emergency personal, just in case someone had an accident. It is prevention that is the better cure. I bet your fun run will have a great success, so let your hair down! Don't forget to write and tell me how it went.

Best wishes and good luck!

Esther

Best Programmes on Figure Ice Skating (Part 1: Ladies)

Hi mates!

This year is finishing and I would like share with you the best programmes on Figure Ice Skating. As you know, there are four cathegories: Ladies, men, pairs and ice dance. So, today we start with ladies cathegory. Let´s go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zduPx_Fe6Po  Sasha Coen, Olympyc short programme in Torino 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdv969wU5So  Carolina Kostner and her beautiful perfomance with Ave María´s music on European Championships in 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2UBWm-M9c  The great Ashley Wagner, marvellous choreography for her free programme in 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmj6OpiTDw  Julia Lipniskaya, a 15 years old girl, and her stunning perfomance with the soundtrack of Schindler´s list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjEoBfmn1SU  Mao Asada, in a difficult interpretation on the Swans lake on olympics in 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noxpvATWzho  The queen, Yuna Kim. Nothing to say, except enjoy her