Call me crazy, but I like it: this week every day, I’ve come home tired, slightly stressed by the evening’s to-do list, sometimes sore, and sometimes cold. But unfailingly ecstatic about it. Woohoo! I even got to reorganize my desk, which means moving the once hugely useless and in-the-way computer monitor to a closet, adding [...]
Posts Tagged ‘translation’
Week 24: Good to be busy again
Posted: February 20, 2010 in Иркутск, Student LifeTags: Babr.ru, занятии, freedom, GBT, literature, schedule, teachers, translation
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Theatre: Romeo & Dzhulietta à la Russe/J.C. Superstar
Posted: December 5, 2009 in ИркутскTags: "amusing/characteristically Russian", adaptation, corruption, Romeo & Dzhulietta, Sovietism, teachers, theatre, translation
On Tuesday night, I ran into another extra-curricular “committment” to keep myself well distracted from the significant, but shrinking, pile of work I have ahead of me this weekend. Hooray! Irina Melentievna (grammar teacher), that wonderful woman, her, got her hands on tickets for the Irkutsk Dramaturgical Academy Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet for us. I [...]
English town (Russian lessons included)
Posted: October 20, 2009 in Иркутск, Student LifeTags: culture shock, English, food, friends, Russian lessons, taxi rides, translation
Speaking English in Russia is weird. I don’t do it often, namely, talking on the phone or Skype with people back home, and writing emails/blog updates. But being in the whole “immersion” experience for so long, when asked/required to switch to English, you’re really pushed off balance. A few places to watch out for. . [...]
