My mom asked me to write this so she would "have something interesting to read." A month later, I'm finally getting around to it - Happy Thanksgiving?
Summer was a bit of a whirlwind, partially because I stayed almost a week less than in the past. In trying to cram an entire year's worth of things into about 3 weeks, I managed to: go to a 4 day music festival, have overpriced brunch in Manhattan with friends from college, stay in a lake house with other college friends, see most of my friends and family, road trip down to DC with 2 hours notice, catch the Milford Oyster Fest, and eat everything on my list of foods not available in the food dessert that is Moscow.
After getting back to Russia, I still had some wanderlust to get out of my system, so I took a quick trip to Romania. Bucharest was a weird mix of classical European and super Soviet, but had great food and the world's largest Parliament building. Constanta was really beautiful, and allowed me to finally swim in the Black Sea.
Back to Russia, and work/life have been business as usual. Construction was finally finished on the square by my house, I convinced my roommate not to move away forever, and I've been SUMMONED FOR JURY DUTY AGAIN. Again. For Thanksgiving, I'm having a potluck, in which I'll try to fit way more people into my apartment than is probably advisable. What can go wrong?
Fun fact before you go: remember when Crimea started being Russia again? Remember how the west was like "Not cool bro, give it back"? It's okay if you don't, people kind of stopped mentioning it. The Levada Center mentioned it recently when it polled Russian citizens on whether they thought Crimea should be returned to Ukraine; a whole 3% said yes! How about that.
Summer was a bit of a whirlwind, partially because I stayed almost a week less than in the past. In trying to cram an entire year's worth of things into about 3 weeks, I managed to: go to a 4 day music festival, have overpriced brunch in Manhattan with friends from college, stay in a lake house with other college friends, see most of my friends and family, road trip down to DC with 2 hours notice, catch the Milford Oyster Fest, and eat everything on my list of foods not available in the food dessert that is Moscow.
After getting back to Russia, I still had some wanderlust to get out of my system, so I took a quick trip to Romania. Bucharest was a weird mix of classical European and super Soviet, but had great food and the world's largest Parliament building. Constanta was really beautiful, and allowed me to finally swim in the Black Sea.
Back to Russia, and work/life have been business as usual. Construction was finally finished on the square by my house, I convinced my roommate not to move away forever, and I've been SUMMONED FOR JURY DUTY AGAIN. Again. For Thanksgiving, I'm having a potluck, in which I'll try to fit way more people into my apartment than is probably advisable. What can go wrong?
Fun fact before you go: remember when Crimea started being Russia again? Remember how the west was like "Not cool bro, give it back"? It's okay if you don't, people kind of stopped mentioning it. The Levada Center mentioned it recently when it polled Russian citizens on whether they thought Crimea should be returned to Ukraine; a whole 3% said yes! How about that.
