I love Russia! I really do love it here… of course there’s a lot of things that are different, some good, some bad, some just different. Some things take time getting used to and some are sort of inconvenient especially coming from a country where we have pretty much everything at our fingertips almost the moment we want it.

And theres a lot of cultural things I still don’t understand, but i love seeing all the differences and learning. But I really do love it here! I’m not homesick, although, I do miss you all of course! Every day is an adventure! I have so many stories and I haven’t even been here a month!

It’s cold, but I’m not freezing… I LOVE the snow! Everyday that it snows, which has been a total of I think 4 since I’ve been here, I get this kind of childlike excitement that makes me stop and look excitedly out of every window we pass and then I get completely unable to sit still until I can go outside and be in the snow (like every kid in Texas that’s seeing white stuff fall from the sky for the first time). Class is brutal when I can see it snowing outside.

(posted from laureninrussia.blogspot.com)

1 comments:

Chelsea Young said…

hey lauren!!

dude, i love that you love russia so much. i am totally digging egypt. i cannot wait for you to visit!

oh yeah, i have a new friend in one of my arabic classes who is from russia. his name is vladimir. anyways, he’s real cool, so by the two russian people i know personally (my stepmom and vlad), im gonna guess that all russians are awesome 🙂

anywhos, i love you and miss you so much! keep up your blog cause i read it all the time. ill try to right a note soon of fb and ill be posting my tunisia pictures from last semester soon. AND im gonna start taking more pictures, this is gonna be a whole new semester of egypt for me!

looooove you!

February 15, 2009 5:05 AM