- On Tuesday morning the course really started. We had the first 2 pieces of 90 minutes russian language classes. The classes were unilingually (once i "invented" this word, i use it as well …) Russian, which made the first 20-30 mins unbelieveably hard, but then it was ok. In the group, there is an Austrian, a Turkish, a SShA (USA) and two Hungarians including me. The American guy sometimes breaks the unilinguallity, but we are all on a similar (very near to zero) level. The first session was about general things and colors, family, places. The second was about Yekaterinburg.
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- In the afternoon nothing actually happened, we went shopping, and we had a lengthy discussion about transport (the Lenin prospekt with the uni is 50 mins by walking, 30 by walking+bus, so it's not clear if it's worth taking the bus for 18 rubles (45 euro cents). We will most likely end up bussing in th morning and walking on the way back.
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- We did the shopping also, it is not clear if we went to the cheapest shop or not, but the prices are little bit below the Budapest average. Although eating in the street doesn't seem cheap at all, blin costs almost double of that in Izhevsk. So lunch is still an open question. Maybe we should commute to Izhevsk :)
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- The local beer is good, just like in Kazan, the difference is mostly about the number and the color of the bears: in Kazan one white, here 3 brown. Also, the all classic Baltika is available as well.
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- In the accommodation, i am in a critical phase. Now there is still relatively order in my place, but i have to be very careful now, otherwise in the weekend i will have to step over a rubbish tip.
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- We bought some Russian films, we watched one today, but there ws no English subtitle so very little was understandable.
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- As the organizers of the course are newbies, they forgot an essential part of all this kind of things: the international evening. So i started to organize, i hope i manage.
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- This post was a kind of boring a bit i guess, so i promise not to write tomorrow, and i will write about something which is not funny at all, but i try to make it that. Or somebody, e.g. the founder of the university. Or the distances in Russia (how people talk about them). And later i will wite a country-image builder post, where i will write only the nice or nothing (the post won't be empty …).
