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yorbcbud
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Joined: 17 Feb 2006
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Location: Сорренто, Британская Колумбия, Канада
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 Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:06 am Post subject: Bryak, how's life ? |
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| Hey dude, hows the footloose and care free young Canuck makin out? You were supposed to let us know what's happenin. Keep in touch, so I can visit you when I get the time to go there. |
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bryak
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Joined: 28 Oct 2005
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Location: Edmonton, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Ah yes, of course. I apologize for being so lazy and not giving updates but I have been very busy, very drunk, and not really near a computer all that much over the past month.
Everything here is fantastic. Russia is a fascinating country, Moscow is a beautiful and exciting city, and Zelenograd is a lovely place to live. My job is going okay, tho it's a lot of work for this lazy Canadian kid. Made lots of friends from all over the world (English teachers) and of course a lot of Russians.
Seen red Square twice, made my bones tingle. Took a cruise of the Moskva river (with free food and booze and abuot 50 or 60 co-workers). A couple Russian friends took me up to the 30th floor of MOscow State University for an amazing view of the entire city, and even tho it was a cloudy day the view was incredible. Went to Gorky park, which was a disappointment, tho the fountain was cool and the rides, altho expensive, were kinda fun (and scary in a rickety, rusty kinda way).
My Russian is coming along slowly but surely. Taking lessons every Tuesday and Thursday morning and trying to talk to my Russian friends pa russky as much as possible. I can get by I suppose, buying chicken and cheese at the grocery or getting pivo at the produkty.
Don't really miss home, not yet. Too many new things to see and do and experience over here yet. Been here about a month and a half, and sometimes it feels like a lifetime, but more often it feels like I arrived yesterday.
My flat is a typical Russian flat I think, in a huge grey apartment block, 8th floor, korpus shto shest, Z-Grad, replete with cockroaches and a faulty pre-revolution refridgerator. The elevator kinda scares me...
Looking for some good Russian music still. Like Zveri, Leningrad, Mongol Shuudan; hate Dima Bilan, tho I dig his mullet. By the way, why are young Russian men so obsessed with mullets? They seem to be all the style over here. Thus I have decided to grow one of my own.
Travelling to Smolensk with a friend one weekend soon. Going to St. Petersburg with a group on the November long weekend. Otherwise I just hang around Zelenograd, go into Moscow on the weekends and ride around on the metro, see what I can see, which is a lot.
Everybody on this board should come here at least once, it's wonderful....
That's all for now, more updates to come... eventually  |
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krasatulya
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Joined: 29 May 2005
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| bryak wrote: | By the way, why are young Russian men so obsessed with mullets? They seem to be all the style over here. Thus I have decided to grow one of my own.
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Haha, that's too funny. I noticed this trend myself while I was there. My brother-in-law has a little mullet action going on, too, which my husband and I noticed he straight-irons every morning, just to make it extra special I guess  Glad to hear you're having a good time! |
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surfguy
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Joined: 13 Apr 2006
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| Sounds great and now I want to return too. Yes the mullets are rediculous. I wonder if JOE DIRT was ever shown there/ Perhaps if they play it then the Russians would realize how rediculous the style is |
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surfguy
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Actually I may be over there at the end of November...gonna be cold! |
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