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The giant squid.
"Kaikoura is New Zealand's most beautiful island",Jim said to the latest group of tourists. "You can often see whales here,too,swimming near the shore". Jim was a fisherman,but during the summer he gave guided tours of the island. He used to tell the tourists exciting stories about a sea monster which lived off the coast of New Zealand. Of course,he had never seen it himself and didn't really believe it existed. Still,tourists enjoyed the story,and Jim hoped this would help to improve business.
Leaving the tourists on the beach to take some photographs and have lunch,Jim set off to do some fishing on his own for an hour. He stopped at his favourite quiet spot on the other side of the island and prepared his fishing rod. He was happy to be alone for a while.
He had just cast his fishing line into the water when the boat began rocking from side to side. Jim was surprised,then frightened. Suddenly,giant tentacles curled around the sides of the boat and lifted it out of the water. "Help! A giant squid! Somebody help me!" Jim started screaming,but there was no one around.
Suddenly,a school of whales appeared in the distance. The squid let go of the boat and quickly disappeared. Jim couldn't believe what had happened. He looked at the water,then quickly started the boat engine.
When he reached the beach,he told the tourists what had happened. Everybody started laughing,expcept for a middle aged woman. "You've just met Architeuthis,the giant squid!" she said. She explained that she was a scientist who had spent most of her life in search of this squid. She was waiting for her colleagues to arrive. "Did you take any photographs?" she asked excitedly. "Of course not!" said Jim. "Who would take pictures at a time like that? I'm just glad I'm alive to tell story".
The team pf scientist searched for the giant squid for two months,but they found nothing. In the end,the only one who had beneficted from this was Jim. His guided became the most popular attraction on the island.​

my friend's birthday in the summer, just in the amusement season..I think that * the land of joy * the local amusement park would be the best place to host his birthday party, because it's exciting and he has long dreamed of it ..

As you can imagine, there is something to do in the park.We take a ride on the Ferris wheel, go to the house of horrors, and the room of crooked mirrors, as well as a cinema, cafe, water park and much more

I think that my friends and I will arrange in advance a festive view of the hall chosen for eating a delicious cake .. these will be balls, crackers ..

the choice of a gift, a crucial moment .. I know my friend very well, and therefore I will not have any problems with choosing a gift .. I know that he loves to study the stars, and I think a good book on astronomy would go to him)

you need to invite the people closest to your friend .. these are the best friends .. I would agree to meet with everyone at once, and inform about the upcoming work .. together we will be able to make this day unforgettable

Everything or almost everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. Nobody will argue with this. However, when starting to do something, we often start from the middle (or even from the end), completely forgetting about the beginning. Why?

Because, as a rule, both the beginning and the end are a ritual that carries no meaning other than symbolic. The meaning of the action usually lies in the middle. And the rest is like a wrapper, like a packaging container, so that it doesn't "break" ... We, not respecting the ritual, not seeing any benefit in it, like in a packaging container, we often go straight to the middle of the case. We believe that performing the ritual is not necessary at all.What is the ritual of the beginning and the end? This is usually: 1) greeting, 2) gratitude, 3) appeal for invisible help to the Higher powers ... Are there any more examples? These are enough for now.

You can, of course, shout from the doorway: “Give me money! (information, goods) "... And you can first ... say hello, or something. You can, having received money (information, goods), immediately run on about your business, or you can ... thank and say goodbye properly.

This is also understandable and primitive. But in fact, we often neglect even this.

We do not have time, we save time - we immediately go "to the heart of the matter." However, a proverb was created especially for such "time-saving" ones: "If you hurry, you will make people laugh!"

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