Ten confusing facts about Russians!

I realize I've been a little absent as of lately. One of the explainations behind this "mysterious" absense is that I relocated to Russia (3000kms from my home) nearly two months ago as a volunteer. In honour of this move I've made a little list of what have confused me about Russians so far (mind you some things might be a little generalising - be not offended, I like Russians, this list is just for fun).

• They're not quite Asians, not quite Europeans - what they hell are they?
• They tend to ONLY speak Russian (east of Skt. Petersburg & Moscow).
• When celebrating nothing goes quite - everything must be larger than life!
• They tend to rely more on "that's how've always done it" than the law.
• They are extraordinarily hospitable to their guests, to a point where, sometimes, their hospitable is like taken out of a victorian novel.
• They will sometimes give you presents - just for being a foreigner!
• They will sometimes threaten or hurt you - just for being a foreigner!
• Don't think you're always the one worst off, Russians are very tough and rarely complain about pain or physical uncomfortability.
• One language, 5 different 'S' sounds - WHY!?
• 95% of buildings look almost the same (at least 15% are orthodox churches) - the remaining 5% tends to be either "polish" (catholic) churches or government buildings.

 And with that I will have to leave you - as Russians doesn't tend to smoke inside their homes (another fun fact for ya'll) I will have to jump to the other side of the door too. But if you're bored 'till the next post check out my new personal blog telling all about my crazy Russian experiences and other trivial things:  

www.glamorousretrospect.blogspot.com 

пока!

Change of heart?

Seeing as how I'm about to start a blog on my upcomming experiences as a volunteer in a foreign country I am strongly considering turning this blog into my new blog, and create a mix up of the currently writing style and the new, much more personal blog, especially seeing as how I feel the name as well as the design of the blog and the Mark Twain quote at the top is only all too fitting for the new blog as well. Hmmm, what to do, what to do??

UPDATE: (nearly 3 months later) Not gonna happen, will stay two seperate blogs -click here to check out the other one! ;)

For heaven sake, stop reading and start reading!!

Yeah, so I've been disappearing a little as of lately. The horrible truth and scary secret behind my absence lately, is first vacation, which was meant as a study break, but then turned into a whole lot of not studying. The 2nd reason is that I'm currently finding myself in the middle of my mock exams (midterm exams). Not feeling like repeating this year, leads me to be rather stressed, and short of time for blogging.

I keep finding myself reading graphicjam.com, books unrelated to school or the subtitles on tv shows that I dislike (because I put it on mute on a bad channel to encourage myself to study). My brain has some strange lack of discipline, concentration and commitment at the moment it seems.. Did anyone say procrastinating?

Wait a minute.. what the hell am I doing in here blogging at this hour?? I need to be studying!

GTG!, I'll see you on the other side of mocks.