Wow, its always when something goes wrong. Earlier today a bomb went off next to a hotel in downtown Moscow. I was nowhere near it. However that being said I am ready to leave Moscow. Just a few more days. In other news, exams are coming up and I am going to have lots of fun studying for those. I have completed 99% of my Xmas shopping and ( Read more... )

I had the coolest Thanksgiving dinner ever yesterday. We had 3 turkeys, mashed potatoes, corn, peas, bread, gravy, stuffing, and a cranberry desert, fried korean style chicken, and some Italian dish but I forgot the name. We had people from Italy, France, Canada, Korea, Germany, Russia, and 5 Americans. In all about 20 people. The food was ( Read more... )

First off, I'm fine. The fire you may have heard about was not at my school and I wasn't even in Moscow when it happened. I finally made it to Kazan this weekend. It was awesome. Except for the train ride. Mike and I left on Thursday evening and found our seats on the train which turned out to be the crappiest beds on the train. I couldn't ( Read more... )

It's been awhile, eh? As if it isn't already evident I have been hanging out with the Candians alot. These crazy Canuks got the idea in their head that it would be a good idea to go to a Russian "bannya" (sauna with lots of nakedness). And for whatever reason I decided to go with them. Aside from the smell, and from the fact that I surrounded ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who sent me a happy birthday email or a message via an electronic messaging service. I would be lying if I said I had a good birthday here so I am not counting it and plan on having a redo when I return. However, I did purchase hockey skates for my birthday and I am planning on returning as a proficient ice skater. Think ( Read more... )

So when I woke up this morning I looked outside and saw about an inch of snow all over the place. Finally, I was starting to get sick of the rain. After class, I decided to go to the park and bring lunch with me to watch the snow fall. It was incredible. I went deep into the woods and sat on a rock by a semi-frozen pond and ate my lunch. In a ( Read more... )

The Russian winter is right around the corner. Snow is fore casted for tomorrow and I'm not happy about it. I'm feeling slightly under the weather and I would be severely disappointed if I could not go out and play in the snow with all the other kids. Not much has happened since the last time I updated except I got a haircut. They do it the ( Read more... )

So I've finally worked out a daily routine for myself. It's been awhile since I've updated this thing and it's because not much has really happened that I could classify as interesting. Last night we went to Karma Bar which I think so far has been the coolest bar/club/discotheque in Moscow. Today we went to Ruby Tuesdays and had a little ( Read more... )

Well after experiencing the worst class ever in which I couldn't say anything, I decided to do some intense studying. It paid off and I did awesome in class today. But anyways, thats boring, so in other news, I bought Super Troopers on dvd. It's in Russian and in English and it was only 5 bucks. I am going to start purchasing alot more dvd's so ( Read more... )

So I experienced my first Russian hockey game and it was so radical. It was so rad in fact that I am going to another game tonight at 7. Our team is called tsska. Its really hard to pronounce and so are the cheers. But I came here to learn Russian and I'm going to stick with it. It was a quality hockey game with some awesome goals. And the ( Read more... )