We are in Texas, in Wichita Falls now and we're fairly excited about moving here in the beginning of August. I like the city. It's not like the cities I'm used to in Russia - it's low and spread out. And it looks very nice  and clean, with a lot of trees. I think I will like living here ( Read more... )

It's been almost 10 days since we're here, in the US. Wonderful time! It's so interesting, everything is so different, so new, so many things to see, to learn. I'm overwhelmed with emotions and feelings. And I'm happy ( Read more... )

Russia - Netherlands

3:1

We are in a semi-final!

For the first time in the last 20 years, Russian national football (soccer) team will play in a semi-final of the European Championship.

ВПЕРЕД РОССИЯ!!!

3 weeks and 3 days to the Big Day - we're coming to America.
How do I feel? I'm excited. And I'm scared.
New life - unknown and thrilling - how will it meet me?

I have Kirez to hold my hand, to encourage, to smile :)
And I feel like a child on the Christmas Eve.

The "first ball" :) What if I do the wrong thing? How do I know what is right and what ( Read more... )

Living in the UAE, we were reading the Lonely Planet guide for Oman and all those places seemed to be great goals for travels. Then we didn't have visa (for me) and could only plan and dream, but what happened when we came to live here, in Oman? We're free now to go anywhere - Salalah, Jebel Shams, Ras Al Jins - but suddenly we didn't want this ( Read more... )

Remembering the first movie I have ever watched in English :) My friend came back from Germany and brought DVD "Moulin Rouge". DVD was bought in Germany, so it didn't have 'russian' option - either German or English. Since Tanya - the girl who brought the DVD - 'knew' only German, and we - my sister and I - only English, after short we decided to ( Read more... )

5K is a big challenge for me, and the last time it took me more than 40 minutes to complete the run, so if Kirez was to be at work on time, we had to be at the track by 5:15-5:20 a.m. Nice...

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The alarm went off at 5:00 a.m. Kirez switched it off and came back to bed. Silence...
Tiny little *hope* started raising its head - "no run, no run, no run ( Read more... )

Me:     I'm going to do a pull-up ( Read more... )

Yesterday we ran again. I couldn't believe when I saw the WOD in the morning! 5K?? Again?!?!  It was so tempting to run just 1 mile - I still didn't measure my time on this distance, but Kirez asked me to run the whole way. He was right, if I can do it, I should. I just really, really didn't want to go through all this pain again. Running days are ( Read more... )

I've just learned my double-unders on the 26th of January - less than 3 weeks ago, and I was really, really bad at them - I could do 1 DU after 4-8 singles, and after that I was landing in so deep squat that it was impossible to continue even with singles. I knew I need practice, but hey, it's so painful when you're hitting yourself with the rope! ( Read more... )