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Getting Sick in Russia

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September 12th 2006
Everyone seems to be sick now. I think most people became sick after the overnight train ride. My host family seems to have very different ideas about what sick people should do than in the U.S. I've been sick since last week and every time I leave the home to go outside my host mom shakes her head and asks me why I'm going outside when I'm sick. One nice thing about being sick is that I get t ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more