I have been without internet for a while, the home computer has a virus. I actually had to trek all the way to mcdonalds in the neighbouring city just to post this message with their wifi.
Ok, the halfway point has come and is now almost a month behind me. That felt both good and bad. Good because it means I will soon see my family and friends, but also sad because it means I will soon have to leave my family and friends here, probably forever. It is good because I can look back on all the Russian I have learned, but humbling because I still have so much more to learn. I definetly don't know Russian half as well as I want to, and my time in Russia is already more than halfway over.
Now for a grab bag of miscellaneous complaints and announcments:
1. I take Russian language classes at school with five and six year olds and they are really cute.
2.The Russian news only covers the bad stuff that is happening everywhere except Russia. --especially USA--there is always a story about some terrible thing an American did or some terrible thing that happened in America. Yesterday the news talked for twenty minutes about the American who fell down in New York City and was not offered help getting up.
3. The snow is all gone and the weather is amazing
4. I have gained over five kilos since I arrived.
5. On Sunday my host mom's car broke down in the middle of a Russian highway for about an hour. Russian highways are pretty much the scariest things ever. I am going to talk more about them later.