Bler de derp. So much to write about! I’ve started to have experiences that are legitimately new and completely different from anything I’ve experienced in America, and a whole bunch of them happened in a pile in the last couple of days. Last Thursday, to start off, was the Day of the Institute, the birthday […]
A broad but by no means comprehensive list of things I do regularly now that I never ever did before: It takes me forever to get ready in the morning. If I hustle, I can do it in 45 minutes, but really for a proper preparation, I need 2 hours. I take showers in the […]
The pavement outside Centrin, my dorm/hotel place, was just recently repaved and is now beautiful, clean asphalt; but the sidewalk further up the street, near the Embankment, is falling apart and made out of sand and disconnected concrete blocks. That’s Russia. Arkhangelsk has made a hero out of Mikhail Lomonosov, who was born somewhere in […]
It’s 35°F here in Archangel, and everyone is talking about how warm it is. I’ve been here over a full week now, and I can no longer avoid making my first blog post from the other side! There has been a lot to adjust to, and it’s been a little overwhelming. I arrived around 8:30 […]