[K.ice]

Yesterday I`ve known very surprising, but also terrible for me thing: I discovered that I have been living without passport for a half year!

I am twenty years old. I thought that people in Russia change their passports when they are twenty five, but I was wrong! Yesterday one of my friends sent me some money that she owed me on my Yandex-purse. With the new laws Yandex must ask me for my passport details before I get money from my purse there. I filled in my details and saw the message that my passport is outdated! It was very surprising! To tell more, I didn`t know before yesterday, who would go to Krasnodar for an exhibition, in which the organisation where I work is taking part in the end of February. What a luck that we have found another employee who could do this! I can`t even buy a ticket for a train as my passport isn`t valid!
I imagine what should I do now with horror! There will be so much fuss with documents!

@темы: my life

Comments

[Вэлли В.]

Oh, I feel sorry for you I changed passport last year and it was really awful... One good thing: the next time this horror will come only after twenty-five years, and we have time to mentally prepare.

[the unlonely god]

Hey, I changed passport a month ago and it wasn't that bad. One filled request and two weeks of waiting
(But I also changed my name, and with this I have some problems :D )
So good luck to you :3

[Фоернутый меломан]

What a horrible situation... However it's not very difficult to change documents, at least I had no problems with it.) So good luck and don't panic, everything is going to be alright!

Btw I've been in a similar position last summer. My birthday was in July, and according to the law I should have changed it in a month. So I thought that this month my old passport would be yet avaliable, but imagine my surprise when it wasn't! I was in another city and couldn't even buy a sim-card for my phone because my passport was outdated. Thanks God I've managed to buy a bus ticket to get home, but it was only because our cashiers don't look in passports at all))

[Himmelblau]

Oh wow. Good luck with those papers.

[Firesong]

something about mistakes

Yesterday I`ve known very surprising
I think it should be "to learn", not "to know". You know things you... well... already know. When you get to know something new - it's "learn".

very surprising, but also terrible for me thing:

a very surprising... (thing)

living without passport
without a passport

One of my English teachers (a native) once told me that a sure way to recognize not a native speaker - however perfect their pronunciation is - is by article usage. or, rather, a lack of it. Since then I made article watching my pet project, and it really helped me to improve in this area )
Remember: articles do run away from foreigners ))) Watch them )))

I didn`t know before yesterday, who would go to Krasnodar for an exhibition, in which the organisation where I work is taking part in the end of February.
This is the example of Runglish grammar - all words are right, but they are in wrong places for Englsih language. It's a... подстрочник with Russian word order.
I am better in noticing mistakes than in correcting them (I work with English. A lot. So thanks to lots of practice I often know when things are wrong, but I'm not always can put them right), but it should go more like this...

Before yesterday I didn't know whom my organization will send to an exhibition at Krasnodar in the end of February.

a ticket for a train
Runglish again - "билет на поезд". It would be just a "train ticket" in English.

I imagine what should I do now with horror!
And again. Phrased this way in English you've said that you will do it with horror, not imagine it with horror. I would say it as
I shudder to think what I'll have to do now,
or, to keep something about the feeling there -
I fear to imagine what I should do now...

Ah, and the next one isn't a mistake, but since you're working on your vocabulary now... in this case "Russian citizens" will look better on the exam than "people in Russia".

[Aria1985]

For the topic:
By the way, the age numbers at which you should change your passport are on the last page of every Russian passport.
And I don't know why it is so, but it seems to be a common mistake about this "changing passport when you turn 25", you're not the first person I met who thought so.

[Himmelblau]

Before yesterday I didn't know whom my organization will send to an exhibition at Krasnodar in the end of February.

Until yesterday, ... whom my organization would send, maybe?

[Alex.S]

hey, guys)
new here and have a question)
are we discussing posts or mistakes?
both are ok, just asking

concerning the post: funny thing is I have a friend who got her passport invalid just by entering it's code somewhere online, so be careful in future

[K.ice]

Thanks for all of you for your answers and countenance!

Ледяная тень, After fourty five indeed

As for the mistakes...

As for the mistakes: as far as I can remember, "to prepare mentally" - another word order

the unlonely god, Thank a lot!

Фоернутый меломан, What a horrible story! Great luck that cashier didn't look in passport!
Thank you, I wish I have no problems with it too!

As for the mistakes...

would be yet avaliable "would be still avaliable" is correct variant.

Himmelblau, Thanks!

Firesong, Thanks a lot for pointing on my mistakes! Yes, I agree with all of your corrections. I`m really grateful!

Aria1985, Yes, I know this now. Maybe it is because of the fact that sometimes people mix the ages of 20 and 45 and get 25

Himmelblau, I suppose, both variants are possible, aren`t they? But I can agree, your variant is better

Spider N., Hello! Nice to see you here!
We are discussing both posts and mistakes
Oh, what an awful situation! Thank you, I`ll be carefull!

[Вэлли В.]

K.ice,

After fourty five indeed

I meant not age, but a number of years, which will pass until the next change of the passport)

"to prepare mentally" - another word order

Adverb should be in front of the verb? Ok)

[K.ice]

Ледяная тень, No, you have put it in front of the verb, the right order is when it`s after

[faith_fatal]

K.ice, I like the idea of english diary so much!)not sure if I'm gonna do the same in my own but written language practice is so important. I hope that local grammar police won't let you down)) everything will be ok with your grammar, the more you try the better it goes

[Наэргоннен]

Well, well, well, and what about your English traning with the diary?

And how are you at all? How do you do?