On an average day I spend several hours with Russian teenagers, frequently talking about shopping malls. I don’t know if this is a Russian thing or a teenager thing but malls are big here. The topic often comes up during … Read More
It’s super nice outside today- spring!- but my mood is low. In the past three days I spent 15 hours in clinic/hospital visits before work and then to top things off, I woke up this morning with a cold. But … Read More
A look back at the colors of fall… Gagarin Park September 15, 2018 Gagarin Park September 23, 2018 First snow day October 15, 2018 A rainy weekend October 20, 2018 October 21, 2018 Birch forest on the outskirts of town … Read More
Last weekend D took a day trip to Yekaterinburg (2 hours in a bus) to attend EKB Startup Day 2019. Curious? Me too! I asked him to share a few pictures and comments about his day there… The event Yekaterinburg … Read More
Here are 4 Russian slang terms I learned recently from that entertaining and enlightening modern dictionary known as the YouTube comments section… 1. лям = one million If I understand this correctly, it’s derived from миллион → лимон → лям. … Read More
For this month’s trashy TV show, I watched an episode of Давай поженимся! (Let’s Get Married!) that featured an American man looking for his second Russian wife, requesting that she “look like a stripper”. 🤣 But it was interesting to … Read More
During the darkest part of winter, we escaped to Moscow for a few days. It was the first time we’d stayed in a hotel since arriving here. The school frowns on trips (as my coworker was told, “you came here … Read More
Welcome to the fourth edition of Russian Words! This is an occasional series that highlights interesting vocabulary in Russian. If you’re an intermediate student of Russian and hungry for new vocab (or you don’t speak the language but you have … Read More
Today was different. Instead of a suspicious glare from the охрана at the store, I got the usual glance and с праздником! Teachers carried bouquets and boxes of chocolate through the halls between classes yesterday. At the beauty salon this … Read More
This month I watched a short telenovela called Минус один. Next up? Reading a sample of The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature. We’re also getting ready to mail a box of souvenirs to some friends in Oregon… … Read More