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Often the advice on how to deal with troubles and not to slip over a rock turn to be most important. Here is my advice, my dear friends: do not try to fulfill a lot at once. Start from doing it bit by bit. Take care of your health. Multitasking is equal to the winter sun, which shines but does not warm, since it is not productive. Do it in a different way, if the time lets. Start again from the beginning—from the health in our case. Build your schedule so that you have an eight-hour sleep, eating healthy diet and an opportunity to have long walks at night and during day, in winter and summer. Next, two actions at your schedule that help you earn a living and enjoy the life, doings, which will help you love this world. Add more and more new doings gradually. I, personally, added some getting practical information and writing books, but I felt it was not enough. I included writing a poem per day and studying English. I have a little time now and can do whatever I want for an hour or for an hour and a half. What else can I add? I think, sport. Jogging in the mornings or doing weight trainings. As I want to learn more about history beyond school lessons, I may read extra books on that subject. It is perfect. Doing and speculating this way you should go in life and live till two thousand years.

Sometimes take risks, sometimes launch an initiative. Just live and love the life you have now and which is left in the future. Delete your accounts in networks. Plan serious doings. Act.

Chapter 18, Alioth

Earlyborn and Zhenka continued their journey. Now they with a guide were on a beautiful yacht, which was in a good condition as it befits, if for no other reason than they paid for the trip. Their guide was a strong and, to a certain extent, plump little man. He went about his business in a captain’s cabin. The siblings were looking through the map of the stars. In Paris Zhenka simply made a sketch of their journey, but now they were looking at the bay sunset, scrupulously comparing the map of Latin America with the pattern of the Ursa Major in the starry sky. This constellation consists of seven stars. The guys wanted their journey to last longer, so they arrived at the decision that they were supposed to stay in each country they would visit as long as they could. They agreed to stay in Antarctic for fourteen days. The first star on their plan was Alkaid. This is the north star, which coincided with the area where the Islands of Bermuda were located. Our characters got a huge experience being there. So a palm tree starts to believe in itself when is watered. It starts to blossom much, and people who watered it begin to regret they poured this tree. Mizar follows Alkaid in the Ursa Major constellation. Its feature is that this star is divided in two ones, and one of the last ones is said to be divided in two more ones. But I have not seen it yet and do not know a thing about it.

There was a severe storm in Dominica when the siblings arrived. They assumed that in Puerto Rico, where they intended to move, was the same storm a couple of days ago. But the two Europeans were to struggle with obstacles and visit an unusual for their minds country. They planned to be in San José on January 29th to discover this town for themselves as new-coming travellers. No sooner said than done. Gazing at the warm and exquisite picture formed by the waves, like real painting, siblings supposed that it all was a dream. I am not talking about a paradise dream, which, as I read, is described by other authors. No. Our characters saw everything fuzzily, since there was the very reality around them. They still did not have any aim, although their perceptions of how the life goes, was totally changed for the better. “Our goal is to have fun and take pleasure,” once Zhenka said, which was somewhat banal. Practice makes perfect—that was the most important lesson they learned in Dominica. What else can you do if not repeating to yourself one phrase after you were safe from the hurricane: “Oh, how I’m glad the wind haven’t touched me!”

“We need warm sand after we bogged down in that wet and slimy dull European life,” Zhenka suddenly came up with an idea. “Something more sophisticated than a simple unhurried travel to various warm countries is required.” The guys began to think over actions on how to improve their state of affairs. The answer happened rapidly enough for such a crucial to them question, for ingenious ideas are very plain since time immemorial. To get the human pleasure, you should think like an ordinary person. The answer to the second question came faster than the one to the first, and they felt the ripe, a bit sour, tropical taste of life. To live the life of ordinary people, you need to have an amount of money ordinary people have. Money is the easiest way to make your desires come true. You may be happy to sit on the balcony in a five-star restaurant or to feel legs tightness after a day of adventures and walking in the capital… Taking different paths to happiness, you will still get this feeling. Our characters figured out what they could do make their journey interesting. They had a limited sum of money and decided to watch each of Russian telecast “Oryol I Reshka” episodes and then go ahead like people who finally manage to get $100 from a bottle thank to this TV program8.

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They reached Puerto Rico at night. The majority of locals were about to go to bed, while the tourists yet dressed in expensive attire in front of the mirror. Siblings faced with a brightly shining liner at the entrance to the harbor. It was tremendous unlike Puerto Rico waves. The guys landed on a warm shore that had not cooled down during two evening hours yet. They said goodbye to their captain, left almost all the luggage on a yacht, except for their camera and went away from that island. The island which wiped from their memory as an oil stain with drops of fat can be removed from the surface with the help of water. That very moment they thought they probably found a refreshing cure, like the cleaning agent in the kitchen, to wipe out this dirty island twice as fast. This was a piece of advice they caught from the sea depths. You can reach everything you need, including happiness, without money. It seems a great computer game, which you can easily play through on a hardest for you level. Merely because you could experience more pleasant dotted changes, expanding like a mountain spring in your body. Why dotted? As you should consider your plan in such a detailed way, according to the difficulty of the game.

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Why do we all want to move to warmer countries? Possibly because we have a nice feeling from a long time ago that something warm and soft gladdens. That feeling was first appeared in Africa, where our ancestors are from. Eating a pineapple when you climbed a tree and now look at the odorous sand is sweeter than to eat it gazing at a hungry bear shuttling around beneath. This is the humans nature. People evolve not in vain, and they try to get benefit from anything they discover. That is why, I suppose, nuclear energy is one of the most future up-and-coming energy recourses. It has a mystery. It can burn a person in a way that the fire did in the past. It shows we are helpless, and this source of nuclear energy can easily destroy us. Be strong, my friends! Recently our siblings watched one episode of “Oryol i Reshka” and noticed a person who experience positive emotions is the strongest one, as these feelings prolong the lifespan, which everyone craves to have. These people are respectable. And they a different attitude to life. Why does a person, whose help is appreciated by someone, suddenly feel better? The reason is same. Never does such a person ask a question about what his meaning of life is. These thoughts were discussed by our characters in a café in the city centre. They ate a local dish—mashed bananas. The café faced the sea. It accurately situated on a boundary between the sea and land. Earlyborn and Zhenka sat under the lights of Puerto Rica lamps decorated in Spanish style. They followed the shadows of the carnival in their glasses of Piña colada9 that took part somewhere in the next street. Probably, it is better to leave all doing which were not left yet when you are in Puerto Rico. Take a very old scooter and move to the outskirts, closer to forests and lakes, or a rugged coast—a tiny harbor of life.

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This is a telecast about travelling. In each episode the show visits different places in the world and tells about them. The telecast is named so because hosts toss a coin with head and tail to decide who receives a credit card with unlimited credit  and who is supposed to to spend the weekend with US$100 including all expenses There is a tradition that show presenters of “Oryol i Reshka” hide a bottle with 100 $ in a place where they film an episode.

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That is a national beverage of Puerto Rico. It is made of coconut milk, pineapple juice and white rum. It can be either alcoholic drink or not – depending on presence of rum.