-Russian professors answer their phone during class not because they don't know its rude, but because there's no voicemail in Russia.
-Psychoanlysis attracts students with lip rings and unconventional hair-on-head configurations at a higher rate than other classes.
-The girl with long, braided, orange hair to my right is sketching nude, anime women right beside our professor--the director of the largest and most prestigious psychiatric hospital in Petersburg--and neither of them think anything of it.
-I am going to have to get used to being the authority on all things American.
-I can't understand what's being said. This will be my audit class.
Last night my host mother got me out of bed at 12:30 in order to serve me a comically large piece of watermelon. Both my parents absolutely insisted that I eat the whole thing so I did. Almost everybody on the program experiences this overhospitality. I'm told it came about as a reaction to psychological trauma of the Nazi blockade. I'll say more about it later.
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OK so I now am up to date and have had a good laugh at your observations. Do you find a great difference in how the older generation and younger generation view their country? I found such pride in each but from a different perspective. However, I think that you are staying up way to late. Hope your catching a nap or two during the day. Just some observations from an elderly aunt.
Sorry Jon. I have just been walking Gaga through getting a google account so she could send you a barage of commentary. She is technologically challenged so I have to make sure she doesn't have to log in each time she goes to your blog. This is a test. Gaga's barage may cause an international incident.
Gaga has failed. She is going to write you an e-mail instead this blog stuff. It's over her head. She can't seem to comprehend logging in but she will be reading every word.
I want to see your classmate's drawings.
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