Synopsis
This is the second book of the series: a collection of Yahoo comments with the comments about them: Part 2. This is a Large Print Edition. The book is written to help people relax. It is a relaxation tool. In the time of the fading economy, people should find resources within themselves to be resilient. A few minutes of laughter can bring you back in a good mood, make forget about immediate preoccupations, and turn your mind in a completely different direction. The refreshed mind will function more productively in finding solutions that you could not find before. You will be surprised how much better you will feel after reading a collective mind of a few hundred Americans selected randomly among Yahoo users. The book also includes a couple of author's stories inspired by some comments. The stories are written to inform and give clarification about the cultures of which Americans usually know little. Irony and sincerity are the author's usual ways to observe and describe people and events. Zoia Sproesser has a Master's Degree in Education (Counseling for Community Colleges). She speaks three languages, and teaches two. Her students know very well that she loves laughter: the easy happy atmosphere reigns in her classrooms. One of her hobbies is to help people in need. Zoia has been in the Amazon publishing for the last two years. Her first publications appeared 16 years ago.
About the Author
Zoia Sproesser is a native Russian. She was born in Riga (Latvia) during Soviet Union, but her parents are originally from central Russia. She got a Bachelor's Degree in English and Literature from Latvia State University in 1989, and a Master's Degree in Education (Counseling Option) from California State University in San Bernardino in 2002. After her Master's Degree Zoia studied Spanish for 8 years in colleges, CalState Fullerton and online expanding her professional horizons. Zoia is an author of an autobiographical-immigrant book, the chapters of which were being published for a few years in the magazine "Nataly" in St.Petersburg (Russia), a newspaper in Riga (Latvia), and in Russian newspapers in California (West Hollywood) and Colorado, USA. Zoia's stories are being published in the online Russianwomen.com magazine, and on other sites. On Amazon.com, in 2010, Zoia republished her first book "The Girl from California", and she has published nine more books since then, most of them being dual-language Russian-English classics. For a number of years Zoia was doing evaluation and translation of Russian/Soviet educational transcripts and diplomas, providing professional language services to American Educational Research Corporation (AERC) and other business and legal organizations in the USA. Having a warm and dynamic personality, being an optimist who walks through life with a smile, a highly experienced and devoted language teacher, for many years Zoia has been appreciated by her students of Russian and English languages in Riga (Latvia), and in California, USA. Everybody who is interested in learning Russian language or/and about the richness of the Russian culture can find and contact Zoia through Community Education Department at Mount San Antonio College (Walnut, CA) or personally at zoiariga@yahoo.com. Zoia had been working for California system of education for 14 years teaching immigrants ESL (English as a Second Language) for Community Colleges and Adult Education.
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