It seems i am becoming a Russian because the 31h long train ride from Ekat to Moscow flew away very fast, a never thought about that it was too long, and even disappointed when arriving to Moscow at 6am. In Moscow i was a little but undermotivated to do anything, so i went to park Pobedy…

The appearance of this post is delayed by 24 hours to avoid congestion with the guest post.Sorry again for the huge delays of the blog, but technical problems and lack of internet cafes in Moscow were both working against me. Next time if i write travel blog i should carry (first buy) a netbook,…

I have never tried to write such kind of writings especially in English and especially for someone’s blog but everything should always happen for the first time so let the story begin. Hi, my name is Julia. I’m from Russia and live on the border of Europe and Asia. Actually borderline…

First of all i have to say N3BNHNTe (sorry) for the huge delay, there were two reasons: the extreme low internet availability (there is wifi, but i have no computer), and lack of time (that few hours spent home are just enough for sleeping and cleaning clothes for day after tomorrow…

On Friday it was the day of the big match. We decorated our jerseys with the world famous Inter Chapayeva logo (i found it out in 1 min, a capital cyrillic i in a circle). We are probably the most nature friendly team in the world because our all co2 emission is zero, we went to our only match by…

On Monday in the afternoon i went to Auchan which is "Ashan" here. There is a free bus going there from Geologicheskaya metro station (could be called "Tsirk" also) which is 20 mins walk from the student dorm. The "program" lasted for 4 hours at least, as getting there…

In this weekend actually nothing was officially organized for us, but still we did many things. On Friday evening one organizer, Dasha, and her friends were going to banja (similar to Finnish sauna). They rented the place, and invited everyone from the course, with cost sharing. It was in the…

One of the big surprises of these days was that after asking 4 people on the street, a clear 3-1 result of the answered shown that we are in Asia, not in Europe. The one was probably drunk or not local. So Yekaterinburg is in Asia. Today we went to the border between Asia and Europe, which is 14kms…

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 freaking hard to get up to catch the elektrichka on Sunday morning (departed 4:30, getting up at 3:00 after pub-tour until 2:00). But i managed, the only thing i forgot is to piss when i am near the station to some tree, because the ride is over 5 hours long and on elektrichkas there is no…