Archive for September, 2006
The Real World: Vladimir
“This is the true story, of seven eight strangers, picked to live work in a house, work together [all day, everyday] and have their lives taped, to find out what happens, when people stop being polite, and start getting real. The Real World.”
MTV’s next season of The Real World will take a turn for the [...]The First Day of Class
Thursday and Friday saw me teaching people in a formal setting for the first time since my 7th grade science teacher made Andrew and I teach ‘How to find specific gravity’ to our class because we had done all the work for the term. This time went way better than it did in the 7th [...]
Labor Day
Missing out on national holidays isn’t so bad when you’re a Cornell graduate. There aren’t many Russian national holiday’s that people take off, but working in the AH I’m guaranteed to get them off.
I spent Sunday in Оргтруд (Orgtrud), a small community of individual houses. From first glance it looks like a neighborhood [...]Shut your pie hole, fatty!
We’ve already covered the fact that messaging/texting/blogging on the intarweb improves our writing and strengthens our grasp on grammar, but my current occupation seems to take that learning curve and make it look like someone flat-lined.
Teaching English having only a degree in Russian and Philosophy is a lot more involved than simply being a native [...]
