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1996 42 posts

December 1996

December 4, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Well, it's the 4th of december and I've slacked off and not written for a while. It's come to my attention that there...

November 1996

November 21, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

November 20, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

So, on wednesday, I got up at about 7 am. you see, I was going to talk to 5th and 10th graders at a moscow school about...

November 18, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

well, once again, it's been several days since i last wrote....at this point, it's not laziness (really!) but lack of...

November 15, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

yep...i've been bad again...it's the 15th and the last time I wrote was the fourth...well, i've only got a month...

November 4, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

So, today in grammar class, the professor asked us why we were so nervous...i explained that for tomorrow we're to have...

November 3, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Well, on sunday, I got up at about 11 and met my friend Sara for lunch at about 1....as we had no better ideas, we ended...

November 2, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

November 2, 1996 Today, Jerry and I went to the pirate CD and CDROM market...imagine...if you can hundreds of vendors...

November 1, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

November 1, 1996 Well, today was Liz's birthday and I intended to pop off after class to get her a present...except I...

October 1996

October 31, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

October 31, 1996 Halloween. Well, happy halloween, kids. Today was a remarkably normal day...nobody came to class in...

October 30, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Well, I'm back from my trip to the baltics...got back yesterday morning in fact.....as expected, I slacked off and...

October 17, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Once again, it's two am on a school night and I'm just getting around to writing my journal entry...i should learn...

October 16, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Wow...today was certainly an action-packed day. It all started at about 9 am when I slammed the alarm clock. It started...

October 15, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Tuesday's classes started with phonetics...where I, once again, hadn't been able to memorize the story she wanted us to...

October 14, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Monday's classes proceeded without incident. After class...gosh...what did I do on monday...oh, yeah, Catherine (one of...

October 13, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

On sunday, I woke up at about 2 with the intent of meeting nancy at 5:30 to go have vietnamise food. Well, I got to the...

October 12, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

On Saturday, I rolled out of bed at about 10:25 for a 10:30 meeting with Tim O'Conner, some ACTR bigwig. He was in town...

October 11, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

On friday, we had a birthday party for Alicia between classes. Nothing special, really...just a cake. After classes, I...

October 10, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

On thursday, I visited my old Russian teacher, Olga Karp at her new school. Apparently, she's somewhere between being a...

October 9, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Wednesday October 9, 1996 Wednesday was once again excursion day. This time we took the elektrichka (electric trains to...

October 8, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Well, tuesday was a kind of blah day too. I did my laundry...that took pretty much all afternoon. It started after class...

October 7, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Monday was a pretty ordinary day....classes...george moved to a new homestay, so I've got the room to myself again....

October 6, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Sunday started at about 1 pm, as a good sunday should. I lounged around for several hours, enjoyed a scalding shower and...

October 5, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Ok, so i've lapsed..again...it's monday night and i'm just writing about saturday. Saturday started about two hours...

October 4, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Well, friday started innocently enough. I got up at about 10 in order to meet Nikita (the husband of an ACTR research...

October 3, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

October 3 I woke up at about 8:20 after about 4 hours of sleep and, in a fit of whimsy, turned on the hot water in the...

October 2, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Today, I was awakened by a knock on my door at the ungodly hour of 10:45 am. It was Jeff, the Canadian from next door...

October 1, 1996

A letter home from study abroad

Tuesday, october 10, 1996 Once again, there was no hot water...this is getting to be less than amusing...maybe tomorrow....

September 1996

September 30, 1996