I'm currently sitting in my apartment in Saint Petersburg. It feels so good to be back, and I must say that the city is even more beautiful in summer (I've only been here in fall, winter, and spring). My apartment consists of 4 rooms, including the kitchen. This is my room:

The apartment is nice and seems to have everything. The stairwell looks a bit shady though and several steps are broken. I've noticed that it's usually like this in Russia; the stairwells are old and not renovated but once you enter the apartment, it's like another building. My flatmates seems to be out at the moment.

Tomorrow I will be at school early to do start my classes, I'm eager to start even though it will be hard. The Russian language consists of six cases which mean that nouns and substantives have different endings. Also, the verbs consist of two versions, one incomplete and one complete, they must be conjugated like in most other languages. Even though language is a challenge, I still recommend studying it, it is a very beautiful language, especially for singing. I will include youtube videos of Russian songs in my future posts.

In the mean time, good night!

Word of the day: Преодолевать/преодолеть (Preodolevat/preodolet) - To overcome. As you can see there are two versions of the verb. The latter is the complete form.

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