Sharing my adventures in Russian language learning
And on a somewhat related note to my last post, Russian stuff, I just came across the Facebook page for Cyrillicwear – the new and improved version of the “Kiss me I’m Russian” T-shirt, though I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a “Kiss me I’m Russian” T-shirt…
So, what do you guys think? If nothing else, it could help you learn that pesky cyrillic alphabet?
If you’re interested, you can check out their website or blog.
Today I am one step closer to being prepared for my trip to Russia because I now have the perfect “diddy bag”. (“Diddy bag” is a term that was used in my home growing up. I always thought it was annoying, but now it seems to be the best thing to call this bag.)
Anyway, I found it on ModCloth.com. They call it the “Bag in the U.S.S.R.” – cute! After I bought it, I saw that the website sells some other cool Russian stuff. Click on the photos to buy.
Okay, happy shopping!! Let me know if you try any of these items out!
I was recently contacted by Ekaterina Bychkova, a reporter from the Новое Русское Слово (The New Russian Word), a Russian-American newspaper based in New York. She was writing an article about who is studying Russian language in the United States and why.
Here is her article, published May 28, 2010. It is entitled, “Кто хранит русский язык в США?” or “Who is preserving the Russian language in the US?” And I am happy to say…I am! It was so cool to see something written about me, in Russian, that I didn’t write myself for a class or something!
Visit www.nrs.com for the full article. It’s a long article – scroll down to about 8 paragraphs from the end to get to the portion about me and the Washington Meetup Group. Look for my name written in Russian, Карин Дубравец.
For more articles by Ekaterina, check out her website.
Want to be someone who helps preserve the Russian language? I highly recommend Meetup.com. Here is a list of over 100 Russian language related Meetup groups in the US, and around the world.
When I turned 29, I started getting a little nervous about turning 30. So I decided a year ago that instead of letting 30 get me down or freak me out, I was going to take control of my own destiny and just have an awesome birthday – and that’s exactly what I did. I ended up doing a joint event with my buddy, Alex (of the blini party if you remember that one), who turned 30 a week before I did.
We had a nice dinner at the Straights of Malaya…
…followed by a private party at The Russia House – including vodka, Baltica, and dancing to my own mix of early ’00s Russian pop music.
We even rented a hotel room downtown for the weekend since we won’t be moving out of the suburbs for the next few weeks. Unfortunately, no matter how hard you party, it seems there’s always someone who partied harder than you did – like this guy, who we found asleep in the hallway of the hotel at 4am. We couldn’t decide if he was just too drunk to find his way back to his room, or if he got kicked out of some room – what do you think?
Wish I had taken more pictures, but I was too busy having my best birthday yet!
Thanks to my friends, Alex and Natasha!! Without you guys, it wouldn’t have been possible!!!
***By the way – don’t forget about the Tweetup, this Sunday May 2nd at 1pm EST!!
Well, the first Tweetup was successful enough that I’d like to make this a regular event. I’m going to try for the first Sunday of every month. So that means the next one’s comin up on Sunday, May 2nd. Like last time, it’ll be at 1:00pm EST/GMT-5. It will officially last an hour, but you can feel free to keep on tweeting as long as you want.
Here are the guidelines from the original post, Let’s tweet up.
Related post: We tweeted up