Hi Markus! I'm very glad to receive and read your letter, thank you so
much for the photo, you're looking very nice! It's great that your
mood is so good

I hope next time you will tell me some more usual
things about you because I am very interested to learn more about your
work and hobbies, likes and dislikes, family and friends and just
anything you would like me to know

The weather is getting better
and better day by day here, the sun is shining and I love it even if
it's still cold outside, about -5 degrees Celsius, I bet it's much
warmer in your place

I'm sorry I didn't write you about my family
in my first letter. I've never knew my father, he was a policeman and
was killed when I was only two years old so I remember him only from
old photos and my mother was a teacher like me but she was a violin
teacher and I was her pupil for 8 years so violin is the instrument I
can play as well as piano (even if I've not done it for ages), she
died because of a breast cancer three years ago and I still miss her
very much because we were really close to each other...but this is
life and nobody can live forever...I have one sister, who is two years
older then me, her name is Tanya and she's living not so far from here
in Kazan with her husband and two sons, my lovely nephews

I'm
sending you a photo of me and her from the last New Year's Eve. Also I
have an uncle and aunt who're living in Ukraine and who ask me to come
for a visit for many years already but I still didn't manage it

To
tell you more about myself: my favorite color is yellow so my favorite
flower is yellow rose

I like sports and trying to keep my body in a
nice shape going to the gym several times a week and playing
volleyball as a captain of our school's team. I like almost all kind
of food and I cook good (at least everybody says so)

but still my
favorite is pizza

I like romantic and optimistic movies with happy
ends of course and almost all kinds of music, it depends on my mood.
It's hard to describe a person I am looking for, one thing is for
sure: I don't need a superman with BradPitt's looking and million
dollars on a bank account, I don't need a macho. I am a usual girl not
a princess at all so I am looking for a usual guy who knows what he
wants from life and who's ready to try and get it

the most two
important qualities for me are honesty and responsibility, I think
they're 90 percents of my needs in a man, do you have them both?
Well I should get back to work now and I already wrote a lot, hope you
won't be bored by reading this letter and will write me back soon. Oh
and one more thing, if you have a phone number I can call at just to
hear your voice that would be nice for me to know it, I don't have a
mobile at the moment 'cause the one I had was stolen right here in
school (yes nuts happens sometimes) but I can use a public phone for
calling you, if you want that of course! Ok I gotta go now, hope
you'll like the photo and write back soon
Katya