speak russian

It is now in Russian. It’s a great help with remembering the alphabet.

I was born in Russia, so I can speak Russian ;-)
Will help you with this, if you need any help )

I am going to [research] house-swapping so that maybe I can stay in Russia for a semi-extended period of time, like possibly next summer, while incurring only a minor cost.

I’m thinking about moving to New York after I graduate from MD in the spring. I know a couple people who live there, a list that is soon to include my current boyfriend Ross, but I can’t stop thinking about living with one of my best best best super best friends who lives in Spanish Harlem and goes to Columbia. And is Russian. And made possible my first endeavors in the language.

How cool would that be?!

My friend Anya just took a mini-vacation in Moscow and I can read the street signs in her photographs!

In the past few days I have acquired two used books on the subject of my Russian language study. One is a 102-level textbook and the other is a tiny book of Russian jokes and anecdotes. Exciting!

I comforted a little boy named Shon at JCC today. He had woken up but wasn’t letting Martha change his diaper and wouldn’t open his eyes. In Russian I said “Let’s go with Martha” and “you’re okay” over and over again. Then I offered him milk with his snack. By the time his mom came he had stopped crying and was playing with the cars.

one more year of making this happen.

one of my favorite stories…was stationed in Berlin when the wall was still up. And was taking the duty train to Frankfurt. Russian guard was talking to some guys who were trying to speak German to him. They asked him in German where he was from. And he said, “eez keev.” The other Americans were like…Eezkeev, where is Eezkeev? And I yelled down..”He’s from Kiev.” Russian guard wandered down by me, asked if I spoke Russian. We had a nice conversation during which I asked some questions that I now realize weren’t too bright. To make a long story short, the kid (he looked like he was 14) wanted to stay in Germany while I really wanted to go home. I asked why, and he said, because here I can eat. Potomu chto zdes’ ya mogu yest’. I shut up after that.

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