Archive for April, 2010

My birthday at the Russia House

By Karyn Dubravetz

Karyn at the Russia House

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

Blowing out the candles

…followed by a private party at The Russia House – including vodka, Baltica, and dancing to my own mix of early ’00s Russian pop music.

Reserved for Karyn and Alex

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?

Partier sleeping on hotel floor

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!!

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Let’s tweet up!…again!

By Karyn Dubravetz

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.

Russian Tweetup

Thank you to Vicki Boykis for use of this photo!

Here are the guidelines from the original post, Let’s tweet up.

  • Everyone will log on to Twitter at the same time (day and time specified above).
  • Simply tweet as you normally would, but follow each post with this hashtag: #rltu (Russian language Tweetup).
  • You will need to run a search for this hashtag to follow all the tweets. You can do this simply through Twitter, but it’s best to use an application like TweetDeck, or HootSuite.
  • The point is to practice Russian, so tweets should be in Russian.
  • It’s a good idea to have a Russian/English dictionary open at the same time in case you need help. Multitran.ru is a good one. Translit.ru is another great resource – for typing in Russian and more.
  • The Tweetup will last an hour.

Related post: We tweeted up

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