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5am: Wake up in disbelief at where I am. Put on my clothes over my pajamas, yet again without a shower, and met Chris J outside the language school to start our way home.
5.50am: Taxi from Yartek to Yaroslavl Glavnyi station. A hug and a kiss from the lady who made me the coffee yesterday.
7am: Train from Yaroslavl to Moscow. The only ticket I could buy was first class so I was eight carriages away from Chris, and slept through the added comfort.
11am: Arrive in Moscow and get a taxi, 40 minutes across the city to the airport.
12pm: Arrive at Domodedovo airport. Sit around for three hours.
3pm: Meet Clare, Chiara and Chris W. Chris J's bag was almost twice as heavy as is allowed so he was fined a lot of money, but the jokes at his expense helped our nerves.
5.35pm: Our flight. Three and a half ours later - and 16 hours after leaving Yaroslavl - we were in London.
I will use my five weeks at home to relax. I will give my voice a rest but improve my vocabulary and find out more about Tver - where I will find myself on February 19th.
The last four and a half months haven't always been easy but the memorable days have been incredible. I have lost my apprehension, and gained the determination to make a career out of my Russian.
It has only been the beginning.
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January 18th 2006 - Ianna (kaznacheeva@hotmail.com): god, what an exciting adventure
:) Being a Russian, it's soo interesting to read about your adventures. I currently live in London but I miss RUssia greatly (I'm from Moscow), so it's funny to see some Russian features that you mention that, being a Russia, I've never noticed :) and obviously you are very brave to go travelling on your own like that. Career out of Russian - an great prospective, but what about writing some entries IN the Russian langauge? ;)
March 6th 2006 - lexandra (hideingaway@hotmail.com): hi
Hi,i am also Russian.I too want to make a career out of my Russian.I got adopted so now I live in New York.But every summer my mom and I help out Bridge of Hope, so I still see kids from Russia.The kids come here for the summer and stays with a fammily until they have to go back to the orphanedge after the suumer and what for the family to adopte the kid.But I still miss the SNOW.I love snow.
March 6th 2006 - lexandra (hideingaway@hotmail.com): hi
Hi,i am also Russian.I too want to make a career out of my Russian.I got adopted so now I live in New York.But every summer my mom and I help out Bridge of Hope, so I still see kids from Russia.The kids come here for the summer and stays with a fammily until they have to go back to the orphanedge after the suumer and what for the family to adopte the kid.But I still miss the SNOW.I love snow.
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