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Leeve in Russia.
My students have some pretty extreme difficulty in distinguishing between the sounds ‘i’ as in ‘rich’ and ‘ee’ or ‘ea’ as in ‘reach’. Thus, there are quite a few giggles—still!—when I say I’m going to give them a sheet, or talk about hitting up the beach. To my students therefore, today’s post title would sound like both […]
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В душе моей
“I don’t like Russians,” said my old house-mate Matt, what now feels like a long time ago. “They’re too.. tragic, or melancholy, or” “in love with their own sadness?” I suggested. “Yes.” I was thinking about this again as I caught the metro home from work tonight. Twice today there’s been a man playing the […]
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Yes, yes I did.
Judging from the inundation of emails asking whether I quit or not, I figured I’d better write a quick post to confirm that yes, I did in fact resign yesterday. I only resigned from one school, so will still be working three days a week, and thereby retain (a) my awesome groups and (b) my visa. […]
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Toasts
aka ‘How to drink Vodka like a Russian.’ In Russia, the traditional process for drinking vodka is as follows: The vodka should be stored in the freezer prior to serving Before drinking, everybody should stand Make a toast – it should be to something positive, and to something that is happening/has happened Shot the vodka […]
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Just too close
(the themesong for today’s post – if you, like me, consider dubstep ‘music’). “You shouldn’t drink with Russians,” said one of my adult students a few days ago. “They can’t stop, and it will be dangerous for you.” “They can’t stop drinking, or can’t stop themselves?” I asked. “Both. Actually, this is a big problem […]