About 4 years ago, a coworker of mine reminded me of what I always need to hear; life is short and one should make as many dreams as possible come true. She encouraged me to do something I knew I wanted to do. This made me go to Saint Petersburg two times, 4 months all together, to study Russian. Now, three years since my last homecoming, I’m returning to this fantastic city once again.

Last time I was there, I started this blog to keep my friends and family up to date on my adventure, writing about the Russian culture and language. Since then, I’ve acquired many English speaking friends, leading me to restarting this blog in English this time. For those of you who are new to this blog: Welcome! Here you will learn about my experiences in Russia and about the Russian language; in every post I will provide the word of the day.

The purpose of this blog is threefold; to tell my friends and family about my life in Russia, to teach the readers about Russian culture and language and therapy for me to use the blog as my diary whilst struggling to learn Russian.

Furthermore, a few apologies are in order. First, English is not my native language and even though I will try to check my posts thoroughly before posting, I will make spelling and grammar mistakes. Second, knowing myself, I know that I will get tired of bloging as my stay in Russia progresses. The posts will be fewer and fewer as the end of my adventure approaches. Third, in accordance with one of the purposes of the blog, I will consider it my prerogative to write about whatever I want and when I want. This suggests that some days I will be in a bad mood and this may affect the post in terms of language and length.

Now, for those of you who do not know Saint Petersburg, it was founded by Peter the great in the year 1703. It is populated by around 5 million people, depending if you count the entire province of Saint Petersburg. I will live close to St. Isaac's Cathedral. My school is at the Russian Museum (to the right in the map below), near the corner of Sadovaya and Italianskaya Ulitsa (“Ulitsa” meaning “street”).

I leave on Sunday the 9^th of August and I will go home again on the 20^th of December. Hopefully I will have learned Russian by then.

Kind regards,

Anders

Word of the day: досуг (dosug) – leisure.

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