Uhm i dunno even what to title this

So kids, it's been fun.  I'm finally to the point where all the odd things here seem normal, and everyone is talking about the end.  Sad face :(.  Right now I'm trying to balance finding where and how to do the final paper.  There's alot of things that will happen over the next few weeks, so I think I'm going to try to get alot of the paper done early, if this is early I dunno.  It's been cool, but I feel like I need to get some serious work done. I put up pictures of kazan on my facebook, I have alotmore than i put on there.  I've come to the realization that I wont speak Russian well while I'm here, I don't think I have enough time to do it well, but I do have a functioning mastery of it.  It's not pretty but i can get my point accross.  Well I'd better get to work. Later kids.

So here I am

So I'm with a russian family now.  My host father says i don't talk much, probably because I don't.  It's really hard to speak this language.  I can get about half of what is simply spoken to me now, but still that doesn't quite seem enough alot of the time.  I can say things in Russian now, and I can get my point across with only words if it's a simple question.  That was interesting actually, A japaneese man asked me in russian why I chose to come to nizhney novgorod to study and not moscow and I was able to understand his russian and answer him.  I was really proud of that. Good time.  The food here is good, everything is natural.  I think I'll end up eating rye bread, and drinking whole milk when i come back to the states. You never know.  Everything is cool.  There's also a niece that comes around frequently, the first three days she was here, and I think she spends the weekends here, it's a rather nice appartment.  It's really cool being here, we go to Kazan this weekend.  That'll be fun, I've been busy writing liturature papers and I need to start on my research project in earnest.  Sorry i haven't updated consistantly.

talk to you all when i got more to say... laters

can't hold me back

So this week was very interesting. I had quite alot happen. Well I had agreed to represent Gabon(some random african country) in a Model UN. I felt very underprepared, but they wanted me because I was a native English speaker and the proceedings were in english. Well I did this and it was rather interesting. Those are so professional and I felt so outclassed. Either way I participated and was invited to thier performances, so I got to see alot of traditional dances. I saw a Cossak dance, and some Caucaus region dance, it was really cool. New people moved into the profolactory and one of them was the Chechen that did most of the dances, I got a picture in his traditional uniform, it's sweet. Well other than that we met our host families. So I'm living with a 17 year old brother and a 6 year old sister. My host mom was really nice when I met her, and they spoke entirely Russian. I felt lost, but I understood about 1/4 of it. That'll be interesting. So I now have a mullet, they are totally popular around here. I'm going to have to work on the paper due next week and pack today, but I thought I'd write this now, but I know I'm not very good at keeping up with this thing...

crazyness

So last week when I forgot to write an entry not too much happened during the week. We have alot of random work, but it's not worth mentioning. Only thing that was of mention is that I cut my beard. So ever since we went to Vladimir the boys were wanting to go clubbing. So we finally went clubbing, the only issue is we got to the club at 10:45 and we got a call. So a little background info, the profolactory where we stay closes the door at 11 and will not open it untill morning, unless you have approval by higher powers. Our friends supposedly cleared it for us to return around 3. This was not so, and the Komandant was very angry we were going out. So we were presented with a situation. Party all night or run like crazy back. Myself and a couple american friends had absolutely no problem with that. A good deal of the Russians and the rest of the americans booked it back. So we spent quite some time at this tiny club, got bored, walked around the city at 3 in the morning and went back untill around 4:30. Then we went to the only place to eat that's open 24 hours in this city: a Pizza place. I dunno why they are 24 hour here, but they are the only ones. So we chilled there and ate some pizza, and came home and crashed. It was cool. They met another American friend at chruch, which I had slept through, and I got to meet her at Harley's(director) appartement, where we all spend sunday afternoon with each other and our friends that we've made. Party all night in Russia. One more off the bucket list.