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Sunday 14th October 2007 11.00am

It started snowing today and has been for at least 7 hours. Its still another 7 weeks till winter :shock:

Monday 15th October 2007

Surely things can only get better :roll:

Argh. Snow. We have tons of it here too. :shock:

Its actually all melted away now surprisingly as its officially winter. Now its very wet and dirty here in the city which doesnt make for a pretty picture.



December 7th

Learnt to ice skate the following elements:

Lantern - forwards and backwards
Snake - forwards

December 29th

I just flooded the bathroom :laugh:

LoL! How did you flood it? What happened? :shock:

It was 2am and me and my girlfriend were running around like headless chickens trying to finish of the decorating of the bathroom as my parents arrive in about 5 hours. We had to move the washing machine out to lay the lino and the plumbing system in Russia is slightly different to Uk lets say and hey presto we have our own waterpark :laugh: It proved the bathroom can withstand water anyway

Sunday 30th December.

Just finished our first day walking around Moscow with my parents and gran showing them the sites. Completely exhausted now and by the looks of everyone else they are too :lol:

Tomorrow will be busy preparing the New Year meal so no rest here right now!!!

1st January 2008

I survived my first Russian New year

Tuesday 8th January 2008

Everything is back to normal at home and feels very quiet and empty after having 5 people in a 2 room flat.

The New Year holiday went very well and my family enjoyed there time here visiting the many sites Moscow has to offer.

Sunday 13th January 2008

As my New Year resolution was to study more Russian I am now going to use this diary as a way to show my progress and use it as a studying aid also so watch this space


Today I will be learning the seasons and terms relating to the weather. I will report back here once I have memorised all the terms and can write them in Russian.

Oh wow! Good for you. happy7

Sunday 13th January 2008

Here are the words and phrases I have learnt to speak today.

I will now attempt to type the words and phrases out without any help from textbooks. They will have errors but once my teacher(girlfriend) checks it I will correct them. This is quite a challenge for me because up to now I have only been learning to speak but I have to learn it all so here goes


какая сегодня погода?
Whats the weather like today?

сегодня тепло
Today its warm

сегодня жарко
Today its hot

сегодня холодно
Today its cold

сегодня идёт дождь
Today its raining

сегодня идёт снег
Today its snowing

(Break time)

Well Done John.


Have to say Russian look complicated!!

Thanks for the words of encouragement I thought doing it in front of everyone it might motivate me a little more.

It looks complicated and it is :lol: