We did quite a lot of subjects at school.
They were: Physics, Mathematics, Biology, Russian Literature, Chemistry, English, History of this country and many other subjects.
It was rather difficult to go to school when a school-leaver, we had so much to do.
I know that all the subjects are important and they all must be payed much attention to, but still I didn't like exact sciences.
I spent much time on doing them at home.
However hard I tried, all those formulas and definitions were
mixed up in my head and I couldn't make it out after all.
So I had nothing to do but sit for two or three hours swotting Physics, Chemistry and Maths.
My favourite subjects were Literature, History, English.
Most of all I liked English.
I read English books, tried to translate some stories from newspapers from English into Russian and vice versa.
I had some English handbooks and they were of great help to me when I studied English Grammar and did some exercises.
At our English lessons we read quite a lot of dull texts from our textbooks.
But in my view, written texts and textbooks are not important.