And now it's time for a new chapter to flip through: I am now a citizen of the United States living in country and....engaged!

Walking to school yesterday, I saw the older beggar man I sometimes see standing on the side of sidewalk, leaning on his cane with hand outstretched ( Read more... )

I don't really like typing here anymore.  Privacy perhaps?

My language teacher said yesterday that I shouldn't speak in Russian.  I should only speak in the local language.  That way I'll learn if faster ( Read more... )

1. If there was one place in the world you could be right now- where would it be (and who would you be with ( Read more... )

Wanna know a secret ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I visited a friend in another city to the north.  It was great to get away and feel like a tourist in the country I'm living in.  It makes things more bearable ( Read more... )

"Taxes have been part of human life since the dawn of civilization; one of the clay tablet recordings left behind by the Sumerians reads, "You can have a Lord, you can have a king, but the man to fear is the tax collector." Egyptian hieroglyphics depict tax agents from 4,000 years ago getting tough on delinquent taxpayers, and the Rosetta Stone ( Read more... )

They've started hanging posters announcing 65 years since Victory Day to celebrate the coming day next month ( Read more... )

"'It's times like this that I wish I was back in America.'
'Yeah, sometimes I wish I was in Heaven.'"