CEES honours guide - exciting times

Because it's Russia, you can receive a phone call in the morning telling you that all your classes for the day are cancelled. So I decided to check my university e-mail and found a pleasant surprise: CEES honours guide for 2012-2013!

I love CEES. I could be happy to attend all the lectures they're running next year. But fuck it unfortunately I need to choose between interesting and extremely interesting. In addition, if I will be in Poland during Semester 2, I will in fact miss all the courses focusing on the transition period. So many courses, so little time...

Meanwhile: getting ready for Lake Baikal and haf-a-Trans-Siberian

I indirectly turned down the job offer for the Nordic Ministry Council in Petrozavodsk. Haven' heard back from CIMO, I'm afraid that might have been the first and the last offer I got from them. But I'm not as bothered as I could be - aftet all, всё будет хорошо and I have firmly decided to выбирать свою судьбу and not settle for anything less that St.Petersburg. There is судьба and there is free will

Hyvää isänmaan puolustajien päivää!

I think it's fair to say I enjoy living in Russia. However, there's still one thing that annoys me more than words can express: the incapability of planning meetings.

truly impressed

I met a 23-year-old electrical engineer from St.Petersburg. I was surprised when he told me he wanted to go to the theatre (voluntarily! alone!) here in Tver'. When we met after the theatre he told me the play he went to see (a 19th-century Russian classic by Ostrovsky) was "really cool" ("крутой").

:'))))

identity crisis

Yesterday i realised i don't actually like Russian very much. i don't like speaking Russian as i enjoy speaking finnish, slovak or polish. and i don't like the way other people speak russian either, even natives. hm.

ripseni jäätyivät (en enää käytä maskaraa)

I have successfully applied to CIMO's trainee programme for the summer. If everything goes as planned, I don't have to stress about anything and I can devote my time in Tver doing what I like: playing lots of violin and piano, going to the theatre and daydreaming with Alice about St.Petersburg