For those of you who didn't know, Russia has a lot of national (or public) holidays. This year, for the first time since coming to work here, I had all of them off! This includes the two 4-day weekends in a row for May holidays. The bad news is that I caught the flu and was so sick that I ended up calling out on one of the days we DID work. The good news is that in June we had another long weekend, and I was well so I took a little England trip. The week after that was normal in terms of it being a 5-day workweek, but then I had visitors and got to show them Moscow (and hopefully leave a good impression...I think I succeeded. It mostly involved eating, shopping, and selfies, so I don't see how it could've gone wrong)! Everyone who hasn't visited, step up your game. It's been 3 years, the dollar is really strong, and I live in an amazing location.
Then there are summer holidays, or summer vacation in American - I'm coming home for a few weeks this summer to swim, sun, shop, and stuff my face. Please pencil me in.
In other news, there's no "deep" crisis, whatever that means. So everyone can calm down. Everything is casually at least twice as expensive because THERE IS NO CRISIS and everything is totally fine, in case you were wondering.
Lastly, the Guardian recently did a really well-written, interesting, and informative series about Moscow called Moscow week - I strongly urge everyone to check it out; most of what they say is really accurate and will give you a much better idea of what Moscow is actually like, in addition to maybe explaining a little why I like it here so much.
Then there are summer holidays, or summer vacation in American - I'm coming home for a few weeks this summer to swim, sun, shop, and stuff my face. Please pencil me in.
In other news, there's no "deep" crisis, whatever that means. So everyone can calm down. Everything is casually at least twice as expensive because THERE IS NO CRISIS and everything is totally fine, in case you were wondering.
Lastly, the Guardian recently did a really well-written, interesting, and informative series about Moscow called Moscow week - I strongly urge everyone to check it out; most of what they say is really accurate and will give you a much better idea of what Moscow is actually like, in addition to maybe explaining a little why I like it here so much.
