show, slavic coffee, russia
I'm ready to go back to Russia. This summer I'm going to try to make money at any job I can find, and then I'll go back to Moscow. I've been looking at Language Link as a possible program that might allow me to earn money. Does anyone else have better ideas?
We had the last performance of my dance/theatre production on Sunday. In the end a it was successful show, although it was a lesson in just how difficult experiemental theatre can be. We started rehearsing three months ago with no script, no real idea of a final product, eleven performers of various experience levels, and two directors. Through the process we had to deal with a lot of uncertainty, but there were also incredible bursts of creativity and eventually a respectable product. It was a good first try, and I'd eventually like to do something like that again.
Timur Shaov, the visiting artist at Grinnell (a Russian bard) and guest in my senior seminar for the last few weeks, did a concert on Sunday at the annual Slavic Coffee House (Russian food, Russian talk, etc.). I'd invited Artyom and his parents, and they'd asked if they could bring a couple of friends. After the dance show ended I headed over to the Slavic Coffee House to help set up. I glanced out the window shortly after 5:00 and saw Artyom in the midste of a herd of children and parents. I think there were about 20 of them total, including about 12 Russian kids. It was fantastic, and I'm so glad we had enough food. The Grinnell Russian professors were all serving food, offering dishes to the kids in Russian. The looks on the faces of those kids when they heard an adult speaking their language and eating their national food was really heartwarming. A lot of the kids have been in the US for less than a year. After dinner, we all went into the other room for Timur's concert. Timur sings songs about whiskey, daydreaming, women, politics, love, the mafia, etc., and the kids were almost falling out of their chairs when they heard the first song. All the pieces have a lot of Russian and American cultural references. Timur wasn't expecting a group of kids to be at his concert, much less a group of kids who speak Russian, but he played it up after he realized who they were. They all got autographs afterwards.
In tutoring today we were doing vocabulary exercises, and I was asking for sentences to go with the new words. Here's what I got for "perceive" with the definition given by the teacher as "understand, introduction:" "When I first got to America, my parents didn't perceive me."
We had the last performance of my dance/theatre production on Sunday. In the end a it was successful show, although it was a lesson in just how difficult experiemental theatre can be. We started rehearsing three months ago with no script, no real idea of a final product, eleven performers of various experience levels, and two directors. Through the process we had to deal with a lot of uncertainty, but there were also incredible bursts of creativity and eventually a respectable product. It was a good first try, and I'd eventually like to do something like that again.
Timur Shaov, the visiting artist at Grinnell (a Russian bard) and guest in my senior seminar for the last few weeks, did a concert on Sunday at the annual Slavic Coffee House (Russian food, Russian talk, etc.). I'd invited Artyom and his parents, and they'd asked if they could bring a couple of friends. After the dance show ended I headed over to the Slavic Coffee House to help set up. I glanced out the window shortly after 5:00 and saw Artyom in the midste of a herd of children and parents. I think there were about 20 of them total, including about 12 Russian kids. It was fantastic, and I'm so glad we had enough food. The Grinnell Russian professors were all serving food, offering dishes to the kids in Russian. The looks on the faces of those kids when they heard an adult speaking their language and eating their national food was really heartwarming. A lot of the kids have been in the US for less than a year. After dinner, we all went into the other room for Timur's concert. Timur sings songs about whiskey, daydreaming, women, politics, love, the mafia, etc., and the kids were almost falling out of their chairs when they heard the first song. All the pieces have a lot of Russian and American cultural references. Timur wasn't expecting a group of kids to be at his concert, much less a group of kids who speak Russian, but he played it up after he realized who they were. They all got autographs afterwards.
In tutoring today we were doing vocabulary exercises, and I was asking for sentences to go with the new words. Here's what I got for "perceive" with the definition given by the teacher as "understand, introduction:" "When I first got to America, my parents didn't perceive me."