Prologue. Sometimes eavesdropping is useful. Unusual places where people live

Incredible facts

There are still places on Earth where no human has set foot.

But there are also places on our planet where people should not have lived, but they still live there.

Whether it's unbearable heat, Siberian cold, or an island that's nearly impossible to get to, some people don't want to or can't leave their homes for one reason or another.

Here is a list of 25 such places.

25. Atacama Desert, Chile/Peru

This desert is considered the driest place on Earth. It rains here 4 times in a thousand years.

Temperatures can range from incredibly cold at night to stifling heat during the day.

Despite these conditions, more than 1 million people Call the desert their home, and most work in the copper mine.

24. Verkhoyansk, Russia

Despite the fact that this is one of the coldest places on our planet, and officially coldest city on earth, Verkhoyansk is still inhabited.

In a place where the temperature reached -69.8 degrees Celsius, lives just over 1,200 people.

23. Volcano Merapi, Indonesia

This is the largest in the country active volcano, which is located on the island of Java, near the city of Yogyakarta.

Merapi is also called " fiery mountain", And in 500 years it has erupted more than 60 times. But this did not force almost a quarter of a million residents to leave their homes, located on fertile land in the shadow of the volcano.

22. Kivu (lake), Rwanda/Democratic Republic of Congo

At the depths of this lake there are several million cubic meters of methane and carbon dioxide. If all this comes to light, more than 2 million people could be affected.

21. Pitcairn Islands

They are sometimes called "the smallest democracy on Earth." This state is home to 50 residents from 9 families.

On the island no harbor or airport- You can only get there by canoe. But there is high-speed Internet.

20. Cook Islands, Australia and Oceania

Only 4 people live here. Was here before railway station, where trains refueled to cross the longest straight road on Earth.

Since nothing grows on the island, residents have to bring all their food and drinking water by boat.

19. Minqin, China

This area faces a sad future. The rapid growth of population has led to the fact that the only river passing through the district a desert formed.

Left here only 155 square kilometers of fertile land.

18. La Rinconada, Peru

The city is located in the Andes at an altitude of about 5,100 meters above sea level. This makes La Rinconada the highest inhabited place on the planet. You can get to the city only by climbing a narrow mountain road.

Plus, its ecology is completely unfavorable. Except almost undeveloped sewerage and wastewater systems, here you can find high mercury content, which remains after gold mining.

About 30,000 people, many of whom suffer from mercury poisoning.

17. Chernobyl, Ukraine

After a tragic accident in 1986, almost all residents of this city were evacuated.

To date some workers still live in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone, but their stay is limited - they can live there only a few days a week.

It is worth noting that the Exclusion Zone is the territory into which No free access , since after the accident she was exposed intense contamination with long-lived radionuclides.

16. Linfen, China

Until 1978, this city was known for its clear spring water, greenery and rich agricultural crops, earning it the nickname " Modern city fruits and flowers."

But after the city was turned into main industrial center of coal mining, environment environment has changed dramatically.

On at the moment it is one of the most polluted cities in the world: air polluted with ash, carbon, leadAndorganic chemicals.

15. Pompeii, Italy

After the destruction caused by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79, this ancient Roman city, located in the Campania region and buried under volcanic ash, still remains a place of residence for some people.

That's all because of the fertile land. Even though there is frozen lava at every step, people consider the risk of living in the city justified.

14. Socotra (island), Yemen

Known as "the most ethereal place on Earth", this island is located in the northwest Indian Ocean, approximately 250 km from the Somali Peninsula, and 350 km south of the Arabian Peninsula.

This makes him so isolated from the rest of the world that most representatives of flora and faunaimpossible to findnowhere else.

There are only two roads here, but the number of residents just over 40,000, it doesn't bother me.

Socotra is inhabited mainly by shepherds, fishermen and farmers - all of them raise frankincense and aloe, as well as sheep and goats.

13. Barrow (Alaska), USA

Barrow is the most northern city in the USA. It is located approximately 2,100 km from North Pole, which makes the city incredibly cold.

In addition, Barrow is included in the list of settlements that can “boast” the harshest natural conditions.

Only 109 days a year the temperature can rise above 0 degrees Celsius. On average temperature in the city is below zero for 324 days a year. Plus, frosts and snowfalls can begin in any month, and the polar nights here are incredibly long.

12. Tristan da Cunha (islands)

Together with Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands, it is included in the list the most remote settlements on the planet.

Tristan da Cunha is located 2,816 km from South Africa and 3,360 km from South America. You can only get here by fishing boats or scientific vessels, but be careful - local residents not very friendly to tourists.

It is worth noting that immigration is illegal here.

11. Bajo, Philippines

It is not so much a locality as it is an ethnic group that lives in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

The indigenous peoples and tribes from the surrounding areas were nicknamed "sea gypsies" due to their way of life. Even though more and more Bajo are deciding to move to land, there are families who continue live on the water all my life.

They live without drinking water and electricity, and they only land on the shore when they need to bury the dead.

10. Kifuka, Democratic Republic of Congo

If you are afraid of lightning, then you definitely won't like it here. This village is the place where lightning strikes regularly, and there are approximately 60 lightning strikes per square kilometer every year.

9. Meghalaya, India

This state in India is famous for its heavy rains and monsoons. The town of Cherrapunji, which is located in this state, has become known as the rainiest place on Earth - the precipitation rate exceeds 11,000 mm. This amount of precipitation led to the emergence of unique plants.

8. Muli, Faroe Islands

Despite his extremely unstable weather and the complete or partial absence of minerals and vegetation, the four residents of this tiny village on Faroe Islands until they are planning to leave their home.

7. Motuo, China

This is the place where incredibly difficult to get to. The path to this isolated locality considered the most difficult in the world. Live here about 10,000 people.

Here no roads or communication with the outside world. To get to the mysterious (the word "Motuo" means "hidden, mysterious lotus") you need to make your way through the mountains, and the journey can take a week.

6. Norilsk, Russia

Besides the fact that Norilsk is one of coldest cities on earth, he is also one of most polluted cities on our planet.

5. Dallol, Ethiopia

This settlement can “boast” of the most high average annual temperature on Earth. Between 1960 and 1966 the highest recorded average annual temperature- 34 degrees Celsius.

In addition, Dallol - one of the most remote places on Earth. Here no roads, and to get to it, you need to use caravan routes that are aimed at collecting and delivering salt.

Nearby, below sea level, is Dallol volcano (last eruption in 1926). There are no exact statistics on how many people live here.

4. La Oroya, Peru

This city is famous mining and metallurgical industries. But these industries put the city on the list most polluted cities in the world.

Due to lead smelting, literally all residents, including children, have some degree of lead poisoning.

The average life expectancy in this city is 51 years for men and 55 years for women. It is worth noting that on average across the country, people live 20 years longer.

The main cause of death is oncology. Here it is observed many genetic deformities, because For several generations they have not left this lead shell.

3. Oymyakon, Russia

This village is known as one of the “Poles of Cold”, i.e. region where registered the most low temperature on Earth.

About 500 people live here (2012). The length of the day in Oymyakon can vary from 3 hours in December to 21 hours in the summer.

In January average monthly temperature-46.4 degrees Celsius(can sometimes drop to -50).

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happy is he who is satisfied with his place of residence. But many people don’t like something: the environment, nature, climate.

Most people live with the thoughts: “What difference does it make where, I still can’t change anything...”.

With the development of transport mobility and the Internet, people are increasingly thinking about changing their place of residence.

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Beautiful pictures beckon, stories from experienced people turn into a dream, but it often happens that moving does not help to find harmony in life.

In a new place, it turns out there are also shortcomings, difficulties and difficulties.

What to do?

• Should I put up with this or look for a new place to live?
• Spend your life searching for an ideal or create this ideal for yourself?
• Is it possible to make the place where you live source of life strength? And how to do this?

Today we'll talk about this.

It so happened that I chose life in a small village. The village is beautiful, life is wonderful, but very different from life in Big City, where I spent most of my life.

At first, I rushed between the village and the city, getting inspiration in the city. And then travel became difficult, and I became sad for my old friends and the opportunities that the Big City provided.

I realized that I have two paths - either I fall into a state of victimhood and begin to slowly hate the place that I have chosen for myself to live, or I take a different path.

I understood that the first path would lead me to the fact that I would find shortcomings anywhere in the world and would not be happy.

Therefore, I only had the second option left for execution.

I got to know the people around me, the Earth, its cycles and gifts. I started to think what I can do be useful for her, what can I do to make life here better and more harmonious.

What facets should I discover for myself in order to love and accept her unconditionally?

From that moment another life began. I gave my attention and energy to helping the Place I live in.

I scoured Google and Facebook in search of local communities. I found several interesting resources dedicated to nature, animals, plants and environmental initiatives.

I met caring, enterprising people, and finally began to feel “at ease.”

I'm on my way Guardian of the Place, deeply in love and at peace, giving and receiving energy, support and care from the Place where I live.

How to turn your place of life into a source of vitality

Step 1: Discover where you live

The first thing to do is to understand that we live here and now.

There are seven billion people on Earth. Some are in a huge city, others in a small village. Some people spend their entire lives where they were born, others travel, move and look for their place in the sun.

Some people never leave their native country, while others change countries and cities.

Perhaps someday we will have another house in another place, but for now we are where we are.

And it depends only on us whether we will feel like we are living in a boring village or in a place filled with smells, sounds and energy.

Do we spend our lives in a metropolis crowded with people and cars, or do we rejoice in the fact that this is a point of cultural and historical heritage.

Only we can decide whether a place will suck all the juice out of us in response to our dislike and indifference, or whether we will allow ourselves to be filled with its energy and power, loving it with all our hearts.

Step 2. Learn to see the beauty of a place

Beauty manifests itself in different ways: in natural phenomena, in people, in architectural monuments, in the variety of fruits on trees, in the power of rivers and mountains, in a funny drawing made on a chip of asphalt.

You just need to want to see it and manifest it in your life. Even an industrial look at sunset can be beautiful.

I suggest not only seeing beauty, but also share generously her with those around her. Sing it in any way - words, poems, photographs, paints.

Step 3: Observe and Connect with Nature

You can see beauty only by observing, only by raising your head to the sky and lowering it to the ground.

If you stop and listen, you might notice a butterfly or a snowflake, a sparrow with a crumb in its beak, or an unusual pebble.

When you allow yourself to slow down and look around, you can feel the energy present in that place.

The more such connections occur, the more of this energy you pass through yourself, the more you connect with the place in which you are.

This can be done in different ways, choose what you like:

• Plant flowers or take care of the garden;
• Grow vegetables or take care of a front garden at the entrance;
• Observe the local flora and fauna, study migratory birds or the living world living under your feet;
• Get to know wild plants - herbs and plants, including edible ones;
• Get to know the crystals and stones that are “found” nearby;
• Keep track of the planets and stars, moon changes and shifts weather conditions and seasons.

And this is just the beginning of the list!

Step 4. Show concern for the world around you

For the world to care about you, you need to take care of him.

It doesn’t matter where you live - whether in a big city or a small village, environmental pollution problems are very acute almost everywhere.

Only in some countries are the streets clean and orderly, and garbage is collected and recycled for the benefit of the planet.

In most parts of the world, municipal authorities are unable or unwilling to cope with this acute problem, and the efforts of volunteers are necessary.

Any activity that you are able to do will be accepted by Gaia with love and gratitude:

• Collecting garbage on the street near the house, in local parks and forests, separating it into recyclable waste and transferring it to special waste collection sites.
• Promoting an environmentally responsible lifestyle.
• Feeding birds and animals.
• Caring for homeless animals.
• Participation in voluntary fire fighting teams.

In the place where I live, there is a common practice of charity shops, where people bring unwanted items and books, and the volunteers working there sell them for a nominal fee and donate the proceeds to charity.

Various projects are emerging around the world whose goal is to help the local community or nature.

For example, the “Food is free” project ( Free food), in which people share their own vegetables and fruits for free.

When there is a desire to help the planet and feel unity with it, a huge field for ideas appears.

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Step 5. Give thanks to the place you live.

One of the simplest but very effective practices is gratitude to the place.

There is always a reason to be grateful for the place in which you live. For rain, for snow, for warmth, for the chirping of birds, for a generous harvest, for a ray of sunshine or for a purring cat.

Feelings of gratitude and unconditional love raise vibrations and, accordingly, change our lives.

Step 7: Get the kids involved

Children adapt and get used to a new place more easily and find friends. They also serve as a guide to new world for adults through school, kindergartens and endless walks.

Involve children in getting to know your place. They make it much more fun and interesting to search for edible herbs and watch wildlife.

In addition, they can make cards for neighbors and acquaintances for the holidays, or share fruit from the garden with friends and acquaintances.

Teenagers are quite capable of organizing a garage sale of their toys and books that they have already outgrown.

Children are happy to join in cleaning the areas, especially if they are given cute gloves.

Of course, I worry a little when my two-year-old son starts collecting broken glass from the playground to throw it in the trash, but on the other hand, I hope that this experience will instill in him the habit of cleaning up after himself and not littering.

In recent years, I have gained tremendous experience in interacting with the Earth.

I learned to identify wild edible plants and prepare them. She prayed for the forest when a huge fire was burning in the mountains before our eyes, and sent myriads of angels there to help people.

We enjoy communicating with our neighbors and exchanging harvests and various goodies; we collect garbage on the territory without any problems National Park and on nearby streets.

I don’t have any questions about why the municipality or the government doesn’t do this and that, I only have questions for myself: what do I want and can do.

I live here, my children live here, I love this place, and it accepted me.

And if in the future I want to move, I can do it with a light heart, because I know for sure that another love will be waiting for me ahead!

Warm greetings to everyone! Very often we have to witness any crimes or even car accidents, and sometimes we become participants in incidents. At such moments, it is necessary to communicate with emergency services - ambulance, police, fire. What if something happens to you or just passersby during your trip to the USA? You must be able to communicate with emergency personnel, answer their questions, or obtain necessary information from victims.

Therefore, with the help of today's audio lesson you will learn to tell in English where you work, live, what kind of exact address, and also answer the questions: “ What is the address?" - “Your address?”, “Where do you live?” - “Where do you live?”, “Where do you work?” - “Where do you work?” , and you will also repeat the material from past classes in spoken English for ordinary Americans and visiting foreigners.

Remember the useful audio lesson of spoken American Who are you? or Who are you?

In addition, along with new phrases, prepositions, verbs and nouns, today you will also learn words from a new grammatical category - English numerals - as part of the course "That's What They Say in America". Knowing the numbers is necessary in order to quickly call the police, ambulance, firefighters or emergency services. emergency service in America - 911.

Policeman: Where do you live? -Where do you live?
Paula: I live at fifty-five Georgia Street. — I live on the street. Georgia, 55
Policeman: Where do you work? - Where do you work?
Paula: I work at Jenson's. — I work at Jensons.
Policeman: What is the address? — At what address?
Paula: 307 California street. - st. California 307

Now listen to this dialogue, voiced by Voice of America radio professionals, and other vocabulary in English:

Listen carefully to the pronunciation of each sound to catch the peculiarities of American articulation and practice your own pronunciation.

Where do you live? - in English

A table with phrases in English, as well as words broken down according to their grammatical category, and with translation will help you master new vocabulary much faster.

Don't be afraid of this large quantity numerals. It is enough to learn the first 13 numbers, and then by following the pattern of their formation, it will be easy to remember all the remaining numbers. Moreover, almost everyone can count to 10 in English, even those who did not learn English at school.

Prologue

SOMETIMES IT IS USEFUL TO EISTEN

Kitty, what happened?

I shuddered. I can't stand these idiotic nicknames - cat, bunny, hedgehog. One, I remember, called me a mouse - we never got to bed with her, I said goodbye almost immediately and never called her again. Is it really true that some women associate me with these small animals, and this is due to my height?

What, you don't want me at all? - the lips are pouty, the voice is exaggeratedly childish - the little girl was offended! Maybe this happened to someone, but for me this behavior of a thirty-year-old woman caused nothing but rejection.

But that’s not even the point, I’ve already seen similar grimaces from my previous girlfriends, but I’ve never reacted like that. In the end, this is just sex, and, for me, it’s the last one before many years of celibacy. So what's the matter? Why does my body refuse to listen to the voice of reason that says - fuck her, get your pleasure, give her the usual precious trinket and leave, as I have constantly done in the last twenty years with hundreds of other women.

It's okay, it happens. Fatigue, stress. But I have a magic pill, believe me, you won’t be able to stop until the morning, it’s been tested!

And what should I answer to this? That I don't need any pill? That such help is intended for those who can’t, but I just... don’t want to! I, a young, healthy man, am in bed with a naked woman with a luxurious body and considerable experience, and I just don’t want her, because it’s... Wrong! Here it is, this word, this is the very block that prevents me from enjoying non-binding sex with a woman, who knows the rules games.

True, today I slightly deviated from my rules and brought her to the graduation ceremony - my younger brother finally graduated from school. Yes, I understand, it’s in vain, but that’s how it happened. To be honest, I just forgot about it, got busy in the hospital, handed over cases, then had several emergency operations - a bus accident, many wounded, there weren’t enough surgeons, so although I had already officially quit, I didn’t have time to leave the hospital building, so I left I just couldn’t, I got involved in the work. In the morning I collapsed on the sofa in the head doctor’s office; he also happens to be my older brother, so I had the keys.

I woke up from Isolde’s call, she happily said that she had taken a day off from work, because she knew that from today I was free, and she decided that we would spend this day together. I was sleepy, and this is the only way I can justify the fact that I completely forgot what day it was, so I automatically agreed. Besides, we had already met twice, and she made it clear that she was not at all opposed to being in bed with me, which, in fact, was my purpose in meeting her.

And so, when we had already had lunch at the luxurious restaurant that she had chosen, or rather, she had lunch and I had breakfast, and were about to go to her home, I received a call from my daughter-in-law. She asked if I remembered my graduation younger brother, because the whole family is leaving in fifteen minutes, and I’m still not there. I promised to come straight to school, I thought that I would have to postpone the planned “event” with Isolde until tomorrow, but she offered to come with me. I probably thought that by meeting my loved ones, she would take our relationship to a higher level. Naive. We sat the entire boring graduation ceremony a little away from the members of my rather large family, and then immediately left, I didn’t even introduce her to anyone, why?

And now I’m lying, naked, on a wide bed in her bedroom, and I’m thinking - what am I even doing here, and what excuse can I use to escape. Because I definitely don’t intend to swallow her miracle pills.

Sighing heavily, I opened my mouth to say something, at least something, and then run away from this house and from this woman, who was irritating me more and more every second, and at that moment salvation came to me in the form of a call to door.

“They came to you,” I chimed in, barely hiding a sigh of relief.

“I’m not waiting for anyone,” she tried to put me back down. - They will call and leave.

But the caller was persistent. The trill of the bell did not stop for about thirty seconds, then there was a knock on the door, and it was clearly a fist.

Maybe you can open it? - I suggested, because this whole situation was irritating me more and more.