I was actually walking down nevsky after class today on my way here (the net cafe) and just had a full-on moment of "ready to go home." It's not that things aren't okay here, the people are really fun and we keep ourselves busy, but things are getting monotonous. Sure classes are challenging in their own right, but not in the intellectually ( Read more... )

laura: stalin is buried. lenin was the one they enbalmed ( Read more... )

another flight of people are headed off to moscow this evening and tomorrow ( Read more... )

don't you know that I can find this
I won't be afraid of you

don't you know it's hard to dig deep
it's hard to let go
i don't tell you
wipe your feet you've walked on my territoryas much as i feel i've learned and grown up ( Read more... )

damn you wisconsin, i'm ashamed. that marriage ban was a bad fucking plan ( Read more... )

possible near death experience?

check.

So crazy thing, on tuesday we had a halloween party and at the bar we met this american guy that cooks there. apparently he goes to lewis and clark...and knows clark. and broke his shin freshman year of college. it's crazy how small the world is sometimes. i randomly ran into some of the moscow kids at a bookstore today. it's weird. i shouldn ( Read more... )

1. the other day at tsarskoe selo, one of my friends saw/met emma watson (Hermoine). so that's pretty sweet. what the hell she's doing here I can't begin to understand ( Read more... )

bolte: i got green eggs and ham and if you give a mouse a cookie. the person i was trying to teach is still learning how to count in russian (she has problems after she gets to 6 or 7) so you can imagine how well she counts in english. It was funny though because russians have NO th in their vocabulary, nor do they their aspirate the letter t ( Read more... )

Laura- the time difference is 9 hours from the midwest, 8 from new york (i'm on moscow time here). Also, i suggest trying cloves for you then. They're stronger, but they taste really sweet. I hear people either LOVE them or hate them, and I absolutely LOVE them to pieces ( Read more... )