American Center in Yekaterinburg hosted Discussion club for students
this week. During this meeting Club participants discussed New Year's
Resolutions in English.

Discussion club facilitator - Professor of Journalism at Ural Federal
University and FLEX alumna Elizaveta Golousova shared the history of "New Year, Clean Slate" phenomenon. It turns out Babylon citizens made promises to God to become better and pay all the depts in the coming year.

Young adults are familiar with the New Year's Resolutions due to the American movie "Bridget Jones's Diary". In the course of the meeing participants discussed their own resolutinos, and analyzed the nature of things that people would like to correct in the beginning of the New Year. Everyone shared their own "success story", recalled some interesting cases related to the "Start of New Life onthe 1st of January".