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Today is June 19, 2010. It is morning, and it is the fourth day that I am writing in my diary. Just a note: this is from the previous day, June 18.
Today I was thinking about how to improve this diary, and what to do in a case that my day is boring or just the same like the day before. I decided to always write in several parts: the introduction - just like "Today is June 19 in the morning...”, text about what I did the whole day, about the weather, evaluate the day I am writing about, a plan for the next day and finally saying goodbye. I can evaluate what I did, if I was active and if I fulfilled everything according to the plan from the previous day. It can be good for planning, thus "Time management" as well as for my English.

Anyway, today I got up at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, just like yesterday. I went to bed late again, I have been a night owl lately. Is that bad? I don’t think so. As I mentioned yesterday, I don’t mind, because I don’t have to go anywhere. Sure, if I had to, I would get up earlier and change my life style. I don’t think that I have mentioned, so far, that I always make a cup of coffee when I get up, because I want to be more awake. So, today, I made it after I got up.

Anyway, at 2 p.m. I should have had a conversation with a british tutor, who I like, but I was on the toilet and when I came in my room, the calling stopped. It was really pity; I missed it only by a few seconds. After that I wrote to her, but she did reply to me, although her status said she was still online. In a few minutes, an email came up saying that I missed the conversation. Sure, my points were away. I was pissed off a bit because I had always liked her conversations. I wrote to her, but she did not answer me. So I went to the kitchen to make some food, because I was hungry. There I met my housemate saying that he was at the dentist in the morning in order to fill his tooth. I really don’t like dentists and I am afraid of each visit when my teeth are checked. Although I know that only for a minute, it is an unpleasant feeling, and then my teeth are healthy for a long time. It is worth it!

In the meantime, my British tutor sent me a message saying that he was not able to come in today because he was tired after working for the whole day. It was really great (ironically), I should have had two conversations and I did not have any. Fortunately, I knew that I would have a conversation at 9 p.m., so I was calmer.

Anyway, today was the football match between England and Algeria. It finished with a draw. My housemate was really annoyed because of that result. He really thought that the England team would win. So I rather did not talk to him because he was very much pissed off.

Anyway, at 9 p.m. I had a conversation with the American tutor Maria for approximately 40 minutes. She is Monica's sister who I mentioned a day before yesterday. We talked about her vacation, how she enjoyed it and what she did there. Then I talked about how good it is to watch series in order to learn languages. We can enjoy and learn at the same time and we improve our language skills, such as listening comprehension, we pick up words to our active and passive vocabulary. I certainly know how much listening is important, but sometimes I just don’t properly concentrate on the listening. But while watching a television series, I always concentrate on it, because it is fun. Sure, I must pick the right series; otherwise, I would get bored. I try to watch American and British series, although I don’t know so many British series. That’s why I can understand American English better than British English - because I watch a lot of American series.

However, my favorite British series is Doctor Who. Every Saturday is the new episode on BBC; I am looking forward to tomorrow for the new episode.

Today the weather was quite bad; it was cloudy and rainy so I felt sleepy throughout the day. I don’t know about other people, but when the weather is bad, I always feel sleepy. I hope that tomorrow the weather will be better, but I don’t mind so much.

My diary, I know that I promised yesterday that I would do some research for my university today, but I did not. It is bad, I know. But I still hope that it will get better in order to fulfill my daily targets. What should I say about my evaluation today? Well, I did a lot of things in order to improve English - writing, listening, watching, speaking and I even did something for German, but I did not do any work for the university.

For tomorrow, I would like to do some research and I will have two conversation - the first conversation in English and the second one in German. I mean we still speak English on our German conversations instead of German. It will take some time when I am able to speak German. Our conversations are based on the analyzing of texts. The last conversation, we talked about a text that I had written before. They were just basic phrases. My tutor corrected these phrases and told me about mistakes that I did. It was really helpful.

Tomorrow we will talk about the next text that I should finish.

Ok, my diary, I promise you that I will do something for my research tomorrow! - Funny, I promised it yesterday too, I am just curious if I will fulfill it tomorrow.
I would forget to mention that I went for a walk this morning and I am still wearing my jeans while writing this note in my diary. So I am going to put on my pajamas and then watch Friends and maybe finish my German text...it is not too late here, it is only 3 o’clock in the morning :)
Well, that’s everything for today. Goodbye, see you tomorrow!