The subjects we do at school

We study many subjects at school: Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Biology, History, Geography and a lot of others which senior pupils usually do at school. Let me tell you about some of them.

My school

One of the most important periods of our life is the period of studying at school. It’s actually a whole epoch for schoolchildren: they get major knowledge about outside world, obtain certain skills and get the experience of living in the society. It’s here, at school we learn to behave according to the situation and to cope with difficulties.

Winter holidays and winter food

The period from Christmas and well into the New Year, is marked in Ukraine, a predominantly Christian Orthodox land for the past millennium, by a string of holidays which are often collectively referred to as Svyatky — Holiday Season. Though thoroughly Christianized, these holidays still reveal a deeply traditional character, with some rituals and customs dating from the pre-Christian times. There’s hardly anyone who is not looking forward to Svyatky — the festive season can hardly fail to affect both the old and the young, believers and atheists.

The 15 most irritating people you meet while travelling

You've heard of the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven?" Well, what about "The Most 15 Irritating People You Meet While Travelling?" It could be your seatmate on the airplane. It could be the obnoxious local you have the misfortune of running into at the hotel bar. It could even be your travel partner.
Either way, these offenders can make your vacation long and miserable. Sure, enduring a trip with them could end up giving you a great post-vacation story you can share with your friends — or an intriguing real-time horror story you live-tweet with your followers. But at the end of the day, these people are vacation ruiners that, along with Montezuma's Revenge, you should avoid during your trip.

Stonehenge

Speculation and excavation

Stonehenge has long been the subject of historical speculation, and ideas about the meaning and significance of the structure continued to develop in the 21st century. English antiquarian John Aubrey in the 17th century and his compatriot archaeologist William Stukeley in the 18th century both believed the structure to be a Druid temple. This idea has been rejected by more-recent scholars, however, as Stonehenge is now understood to have predated by some 2,000 years the Druids recorded by Julius Caesar.