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Countries hot and cold
In Russia, people would always tell me how because I’m from a hot country, my personality doesn’t suit being in a cold country like theirs. The theory goes that people from warm places are ‘warm’ people, open and friendly, while people from cold places have (you’ll never guess) ‘cold’, reserved personalities. I personally think this […]
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Breaking Rules
Ok, so I have blog guilt. Firstly because I haven’t been writing very much (all of my energy has been focused on the novel, which after a few weeks is ~25,000 words and growing quickly), and secondly because as of today there have been more than 50,000 visitors and my last post mainly objectified Argentine […]
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Suomi
I’ve been working at the camp in Finland for less than two hours, and I’ve already made a girl cry. New record? I discussed it with Michael (who I worked with in St P), and we’re putting it down to Russian mentality. This girl has “always” been in group four, but I put her into […]
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Fake Russia
It has been a crazy couple of weeks here at camp. And not the ‘fun’ type of crazy: more like the ‘fml’ kind of crazy. It’s also been very, very busy. My teaching hours are far in excess of what I was told, and it’s six days a week once more. I have afternoons free, […]
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С днём рождения
It’s my birthday today 🙂 I got up early of course, so that I could try to wrangle with Skype once more (I’ve since given up and am going to try Voxox from now on). I also checked my emails, and this was one of the first birthday messages I received: Happy Birthday!!!:) I wish […]