I have homework from here to there. Sometimes, I wish class would go faster, because my summer class at UCLA covered so much material already, that I am a bit bored that during individual lessons we are covering genders and possessive pronouns. So to counteract

I miss having Saturday free. In Russia, we have a full day of school, where I am studying. Some other schools have half days, while others are not in session at all. So for the first time, I attended this class labeled as “Texnology”. However,

Tasha and I went to French during 5th period, where we were completing an exercise on self reflexive verbs today. (Funny that I blogged about it earlier) Even though it was 10th grade, this aspect of French grammar seemed harder than the passe-compose we studied

School has been busier, since I have homework nowadays. I spent more time with the other AFS exchange students, because we have a inter-scholastic concert on September 24th. We are singing Katuysha, a folk song about geese, and perhaps the Cheburashka Birthday song (as it

In individualized lessons, we were instructed to read a short story about a boy named Fredya Ribkin who attempted to do his homework one winter day, but was distracted by the radio. It was slightly discouraging that the verbs (glagoli) were so challenging to read;

I have nothing to complain about. The food here is good, and it is not cold. Sixty degrees weather is good in my opinion (Fahrenheit, of course). My friend back at home says if the food is good, then I should be fine for the

I noticed that I spend a lot of time in the school library. Even though there are loud school children in there from time to time, there is just a simple piece of mind and peace when I can read a small Russian picture book

It feels pretty darn awesome when I don’t need to use English. I want to rid myself of speaking English unless absolutely necessary, because I don’t want to use English as a “fall-back” language or clutch onto it. Today, we spoke to the French teacher

Today we, the three AFS students from Gymnasium 1, visited School No. 46. We’ve accomplished a big feat by guiding ourselves through the public transportation by ourselves! We knew just enough Russian to get to our school to the next by marshrupka. It was a

Downtown Cheboksary is lovely. The buildings are so pretty, and there are also many shopping centers. One of them has a big cinema, where Ira, Tasha, Nadia and I watched Apollo 13 in Russian voice-dub. It was a funny experience that the Americans were “speaking