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christmas tragedy with happy end

christmas eve it’s a time when magical things happen.

i’d like to tell you a real story that happened last year on christmas eve.

that evening i together with a friend went to greet my grandparents who live not far from us. everything went very well, we were having fun, but finally were supposed to go home. we said good-bye to my grandparent and run home to have a party with my parents and their friends. as soon as i live on the 5-th floor, i never hesitate to use an elevator. i pressed the button, the elevator arrived, opened the door, we entered, pressed the necessary button, the door closed, and than we heard a strange sound that reminds sound of a dying light bulb, the light switched off and the elevator stopped.   all this happened 40 minutes before midnight. we were staying in that dark quiet box.

thanks god, i had my cellular phone with me, i called my parents, and they called the elevator repair company, but nobody answered there.

than my friend and i began to plead santa tearfully to do a miracle and let us out of the elevator. and i think that we asked him so earnestly to do a miracle, that that miracle happened: the light turned on and the door opened three minutes before midnight.

and we all had a really happy christmas.

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tv is very important thing in our life. we can say that tv is our eyes because tv helps us to know more about the world, about the others counties, about the events that happened in the world. tv even helps you to know more about yourself. i like to watch tv very much. i can do that all day, that’s why sometimes my mother makes me turn off tv. i have about 12 russian tv channels, they are: ntv, mtv, ort, rtr, and others. i also have few kosmos tv’s channels, for example: cartoon network, discovery channel, tve, and bbc. i like some of them and hate others. so here are some words about the channels that i like. so, my favorite channel is mtv. mtv is a music channel. 24 hours a day of music, can you believe it? i like to listen music very much, and sometimes i even make myself the music, that is why i enjoy watching mtv. i also like ntv. this channel has very interesting films, for example "er” - my favorite film and a lot of sport programs. i like sport, especially football. ntv usually shows us two-football match a week (one champion’s league match and one russian national championship’s match). i also like several foreigner channels, especially eurosport. and you know why! cartoon network is not bad, but i think that it’s better for children - not for me. that’s all about me. i also want to tell you about my parent’s favorite channels. my father likes different channels with action films. his favorite actor is sylvester stalonne. my mother likes talk shows, for example " я сама ” on tv6, and information programs, like "сегодня” on ntv, "время” on ort, and "вести” on rtr. she also likes bbc channels, which is one of the best information’s channels in the whole world. the bush house is a headquarters of the bbc world service. form this building the bbc broadcasts radio programmers to the whole world. the world service used to be called " the empire service ”. it started in 1932, broadcast only in english. at the first the announcers used formal english and used to speak very slowly and clearly. in the 1930s the bbc started broadcasting to the middle east. and in the 1938 it started broadcasting in arabic. very soon the bbc was broadcasting to all countries occupied by the nazis. the bbc got a reputation for honesty and accuracy. after the second world war the bbc continued its foreign languages broadcasts, and to this day broadcasts the news in thirty-nine languages. in the newsroom a hundred and twenty journalists work day and night, writing two hundred news bulletins every 24 hours. all news in the bbc are checked at least twice before it is broadcasting. that’s why the world service is not always popular with governments. the bb is the world’s largest international broadcaster. every week, one hundred and thirty million people listen to bbc world service radio. in 1992 the world service started broadcasting tv programs and today people in countries all over the world can see as well as hear the news from the bbc. cause of our different tastes, sometimes my family has a problem with choosing channels. somebody thinks that tv is bad, but i don’t think so. i believe that in the future tv will be better and everyone will like it.

if i had a million dollars

when i was ten, a friend of mine asked me what i would do if i had a million dollars. i immediately said that i would buy the best computer and the coolest telephone and then travel the world and buy ice-cream for all my friends. now i have been asked this question again and i do not have a ready answer.

there is only one thing that i know for sure — i would give some part of the money to my parents and i would donate some other part to charity. as for the remaining money i am not so sure. older and wiser people say that it is silly to spend it and that the best decision is to either invest it in a business with a strong reputation or keep it in a bank account and earn interest. it is a sensible decision but some part of me disagrees.

i might seem a foolish person, but even after thinking it over i would like to use this money to be happy and to make other people happy now and not in some distant future. that is why i would spend the remaining money on travelling with my family or friends and on cool gadgets and clothes for me and my family.