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Travel Blogs from Tomsk, Russian Federation
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A.S.E.: TEACH (PART I)
This is a top pick! ... . He confidently knew he could pound any of his classmate's heads into the ground. He asked, always in Russian, if I really enjoyed traveling. I mentioned my love for Colombia. Furry Pasha mentioned, "narkotiky." Furry Pasha and ...
WINTER HAS COME
This is a top pick! ... many disappointments. I have little energy to go on. But ... I'm still going on. My time with classic Russian literature, I'm happy to say, recently yielded a golden gem. Anton Pavlovich Chexov's short story, "The Sixth Ward," is ...
TWO SCARY DDT SONGS
This is a top pick! While residing in my scary, wooden house, I hear two of DDT's Russian rock songs ringing in my mind. They're off the band's creative 1992 album, "Eto Vse". (The album's title song is probably my new favorite song.) In the third song, "Chetire ...
SCARY HOUSE
This is a top pick! ... , and - like all the previously-mentioned rooms, and the next-to-be mentioned one - no light. But, many of Tomsk's wooden houses have outdoor bathrooms, so, you see, mine is pretty good. If I were to attempt to bathe myself here rather ...
ENJOY ENGLISH SONGS
This is a top pick! ... She'd been a big participator in her class's English discussion with me, absurdly laughing at us then saying something light-spirited in Russian. She's a ninth-grader. She'd spoken almost no English when I'd seen her last, and it amazed me to ...
THE MOSCOVIAN KADRIL AND OTHER FUN DANCES
This is a top pick! ... , twirled around one another, exchanged partners as we twirled, and began anew. "Clap!" Our toes hit the floor. Quick, Russian music played. We also danced: a polka, in which we men danced with two women - one on each side - and were ...
DOCUMENT by Justin Breen
This is a top pick! ... ;\ {drawing of 80's Night} {drawing of Russia. \ arrows with question marks leading West and East from Tomsk} TOMSK! ...
... AND NEW HOPE
This is a top pick! ... my guest a good time. After all, she'd called ME, saying she wanted to come over to translate into Russian one of my stories about Tomsk, because she'd liked it so much. But, with her new relationship with Pavel secretly in the works, she closed ...
LOOKING FOR WORK IN A NEW TOWN (A MANUAL)
This is a top pick! ... trip from the Czech Republic. You saw a few countries, you changed money when you needed to, you bought a handy Russian road atlas. The hitchhiking worked well, you paused often to swim and rest when tired. The unfamiliar world was ...
A.S.E.: ICE SKATE
This is a top pick! ... ), "outside nudity", "Balderdash", "the infamous amphibious tennis-ball game" (named by Ewan "Johnny" Smith), "banya" (the Russian sauna), "practice slam dunks", "syrova omacka" (a Czech food), "foreign-language Scrabble", "snowball fight", "the ...
ALASKAN ARCHITECTURE
This is a top pick! ... record, he doesn't put the "gay" in "Sergei" - if you understand what I mean. If provoked, he'll talk in Russian all day long about how most soldiers stopped fighting the Germans during World War I because a Civil War was going on; or about putting ...
LAST NIGHT A ROCK BAR SAVED MY LIFE
This is a top pick! ... itching to leave. He also mentioned how incredible Russian girls are. American women can be incredible, too. But, Russian women: there's something amazing and strong in almost every one. In the rock bar, two curvy girls with curvy dance ...
VLYUBLYONYY
This is a top pick! ... , and snow-faded-green paint on the walls. We sat on cushions around the low table. Nastia turned on some folkloric Russian music and smiled mysteriously. We ate seaweed salad on sandwich meat on bread. Although it was late, I ...
SICK IN THE CITY
This is a top pick! ... my life, living far from the center. I get few things done; I still haven't found places to play basketball, soccer, "lapta" (Russian baseball), nor to ballroom-dance; I can't really go to nightclubs; my friends are far away. I don't think I'm ...
A NEW YEAR, ...
This is a top pick! ... 's face and who loves joking and giggling, wore a viking's bra, blond pigtails, and a viking's helmet. She played me in Russian Scrabble, while we ate. Russian tradition also states that your next year will go similarly to how you enter it. ...
A.S.E.: TEACH (PART II)
This is a top pick! ... told about it. Two young rockers proudly showed photo's of their band. Blond, plain-looking Aleksei - whose hobby is Russian baseball, "lapta" - showed a photo he'd taken with a friend, when they'd climbed a ski-jump in winter to capture their ...
A WALK AROUND TOMSK
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; This old book has drawings of 19th Century Peterburgians on its thick spine, and the square letters of the Russian alphabet are convenient for a serious and straight-forward story-telling. The novel's characters had strengths and weaknesses, ...
SAMADHI WHILE POSING FOR ARTISTS
This is a top pick! ... . Mmm. It was a calm birthday. The next day, a Saturday, after giving a private English lesson, I went to a real Russian birthday party. It took place in a small town, in a "dacha" (a small, wooden cottage, surrounded by its own garden). ...
TWO DECADES AFTER PERESTROIKA - PART II
This is a top pick! ... beautiful, if women; and, now that there's capitalism, richer. Some climb heartlessly. Those who possess a certain Russian character (usually, these are uneducated, yet sometimes they're very successful businessmen) are dark and interested only ...
HOW TO SURVIVE THE SUMMER, HOMELESS, IN RUSSIA
This is a top pick! ... things useless to a traveler; canned pig tongues and other disgusting food items; and useful things, such as a black necklace with a Russian Orthodox symbol, which I wear not for its religious meaning but to remember the people who gave it to me. I ...
A SECOND AND A THIRD WALK AROUND TOMSK
This is a top pick! ... arching, round-topped windows. I, a free spirit, rarely feel the desire to belong to something. But, Tomsk Polytechnical University has mesmerizing buildings; it's well-organized; and the students have unique personalities and energy to ...
TWO DECADES AFTER PERESTROIKA - PART I
This is a top pick! ... vy menya ne ponyal." (Obviously, you didn't understand me.) This may've been a hint at an insult, towards my not being Russian. But, I HAD understood him. I just couldn't believe him. He said I "take up space" (though I hardly ...
The Ural Mountains
This is a top pick! ... up a new memorial which the mayor was coming that day to unveil. It was for all the other poor people who died in Russian prisons. It was very interesting talking to them. We had a good walk through the forest with a bit of climbing at the end, ...
Siberia......baby!
This is a top pick! ... to look forward to, to stretch the legs, grab some food or just some fresh air. Opposite and below me was a large old Russian lady who snored like a pig who swallowed a piglet. It annoyed me the first night, but I slept more during the day (when ...
From Siberia With Love
... , but turns out it’s been around since the 1800s. There’s no excuse, LP. We enjoyed some handcrafted beers and the Russian bar snack of choice, very garlicky, deep fried bread. Nick said I still had garlic breath even after I brushed my teeth ...
Tomsk or bust
... . Not to worry. The one directly in front of us was a lot more helpful. After gesturing and using our basic Russian and writing indiscipherable hieroglyphs down on the paper, we establish that we can change our ticket for two days later at twice the ...
Tomsk, in the middle of Siberia region
... After some hours the girls throw out the boys and Antonio, Arno and Basil followed drinking and drinking vodka with other Russian guys ('malo malote' and others). Fernando decided not to drink but his room was full of drunk people ... it wasn´t the ...
All aboard the Trans-Siberian Express...
... new shapes or are backwards Roman letters. There are even two out of the 32 that have no sound! Nevertheless, the Hitch's year of Russian study in Nottingham proved that she did spend some time in the classroom as opposed to in the pub as we managed to ...
Siberia
I awoke this morning in my bed on the train to find a significant landscape change, the thicker forest has been replaced by a barren plateau covered with a brown grass and pockmarked by thin white trees, strangely reminiscent of the Australian ...
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