I'm a bit tired at the moment, but in a good mood. Yesterday I once again attended aikido class where I met with my trainer, Viktor, who will help me explore the art. We trained Bokken (with wodden swords) and it was very interesting and fun. Also, I am surprised of how much I understand from the instructions, given in Russian. Now it's just a matter of memorising everything and applying it.

Today we visited a vegetarian restaurant after class since a friend of mine here is a vegetarian, it was very good. Currently, I'm doing my homework so that I don't have to study too much during the weekend since I am going to an old Russian village called "Novgorod", which I will tell you more about after the weekend, and writing on my thesis. However, I have so many new words to learn over the weekend. This is because we watched an Russian movie from 1977 called "Служебный роман" (Sluzhebnyj raman) - "Office romance". Even though I have watched it many times, there were a lot of words that I have to look up. Here's а clip with a nice tune from the movie:

Furthermore, today I made Pelmieni once again, I guess it is obvious that I love it. I'm also enjoying a beer called "Kozel". It's actually a Czech beer that I think is quite good (I will tell you more about Russian beer in a future post). The word "Kozel" means goat, as the picture below indicates. In Russian, it's spelled "Козёл" (kazjol) and it's not a very nice thing to call a human being.

Well it seems that today's post is a bit longer than usual, I hope you enjoyed it. Увидимся (Uvidimsja) - See you!

Word of the day: учреждение (uchrezhdenie) - institution, a word that you never get tired of typing when you study political science ;)

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