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As the New Year begins to slowly unravel, I am thrilled to be embarking on a unique adventure abroad. Rather than going back to school for the 2014 academic spring semester, I am going to Russia!
This plan arose quite quickly when I made the final decision of transferring to another university for Fall 2014. Thanks to my AP Scores (only now do I realize the importance of them), I calculated that I had enough credits to qualify as a Junior-level transfer student; so taking another semester of classes, I decided, would be a waste of effort, money, and time that could be spent learning in other less conventional ways. Also, due to my love for cities, I have always dreamt of living an extended period of time in one - not just visiting as a tourist. This, along with the more legitimate (and true!) reason of helping out my elderly grandmothers and evolving my Russian, brought me to the conclusion that Moscow would be a perfect alternative for the academic spring semester.
What would I do there? Where would I live? Do bears really live there? Would I be able to survive the Russian cold winter? Will I have to drink Vodka to stay warm?
So many questions....
Though I don't have the answers to all of those questions, I have some, and the rest will be figured out day by day. I'll keep you updated.
For right now, I know that I'm welcome to live in either of my two grandmothers' homes (both are in Krasnogorsk) or in my grandmother Lilia's apartment in Moscow with my cousin Ana who already lives there. I think I'd prefer to live in Moscow just because it's more urban and I'll have more freedom in the sense that I'd be living with someone close to my age who won't be trying to take care of me the whole time (I hope) - more independence that way. But I'll certainly be visiting my grandmothers often and helping them as much as they need me to.
As for what I'll be doing, that's still up in the air. To make some extra money, it would be nice to tutor English - I would probably stand out from most other tutors seeing as I am a native speaker. So hopefully I will be able to find interested students.
Otherwise, all I know is that I can't live without soccer, so something needs to be done that. Maybe there will be some indoor leagues or some of Mom's soccer friends have resources I can use. We'll see. Fingers crossed!
That's it for now. I'm excited to embark on this adventure and experience all that is to come.
Love Always,
Sasha
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