Welcome to New York!

view from my room in the New Yorker hotel

my room in the New Yorker hotel

NYC subway

NYC subway



in the Zurich airport

on the flight to Zurich

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NYC Times

Well, I am here in NYC!!! It's already my second day here and it's a real pity that I haven't found a place yet to put the pics from my camera to the computer. I've already made tons of pics, something around 500, I am totally impressed with the city and everything here.
Actually I feel more strange here than I thought I would feel. Lots of black people, lots of psychos; on the other hand, everyone seems to be so welcoming and nice; yesterday while I was going through the Broadway there were about 50 people who said hi, and some of them even wished me to have a good day (here I noticed people do it all the time, even if their day is the worst possible...). Very few of them understood that I was a tourist ( I felt good about fitting into this culture), and of those people there were 2 girls who thought I came from France. I even met some Russians here, one girl named Ksenia came to me in the subway and just started asking what were my plans and also told a lot about her own trip, she said she was in NYC for already a month and during that small period of time she changed 3 jobs!
I settled down at the NewYorker Hotel (only for 2 nights though), 1 of my neighbors is from France another guy is Russian.
Even though NYC has a lot in common with Moscow it still is so different!
2 things were the most surprising for me: first is that there are so many people working in the stores who hardly speak any English, I couldn't buy a phone card because a Chinese guy didn't understand what I wanted, second is the popularity of interracial gay couples in NYC. It looks very strange.
The thing that I like a mostly about newyorkers is that no one cares about what you wear or how you behave and all people might have their own individuality (even though sometimes it looks strange).
I am right now sitting in the NYC Public Library, which is a really gorgeous place, I only have 3 minutes before my Internet access will be over, so I say hi to those who might be reading this, and I'll try to post some pics soon.

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Hello-goodbye thing

Today is the day when I say goodbye to my family, friends and the city I live in. For the next 3 months I'll be quite far from them, and I won't meet some of my friends for a longer period of time. This makes me feel a little sad.
At the same time I am saying hello to a new country, new people, new experiences and, of course, some new adventures. And this is something that makes me feel excited!
I pray that God will be an important part of my life and that I'll be always sure that He is near, even when no one else is there right next to me...

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One more day with David

Today I finally took David to the Kremlin. Finally, because he has been in Moscow for 2 years and never been inside the Kremlin wall before! We actually tried to get there one time before, but it was closed because of some important event that other day.

Well, David, now I think you may tell other people that you've seen all the important places here in Moscow!

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Settlers of Catan!

Today...we played Settlers of Catan again!!!! (me, David, Erin, Jesse and Bobbie). I recently became addicted to this game, I really adore it! But...there is something I love much more...It's our little company!!!!!!
I love you, David! I love you, Erin! I love you, Jesse! I love you, Bobbie! Thank you guys for being a part of my life! I love you!
I will miss you sooooooooooooooooooo much. Really...

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A week before my departure for the States!

It's only 7 days before my departure for USA!I will be working in Glenwood Caverns, CO in the GlenWood Caverns Adventure Park for 3 months till the very end of September.The place is really gorgeous, it's extremely beautiful and I also know that many Americans dream about visiting Colorado state. So I am really lucky one!Another thing that makes me feel excited is that I'll also spend 2 days in NYC. This will be my first time in USA, so my expectations are huge! I really want to feel the atmosphere of NYC and visit as many places there as possible.
However, there is a thing that makes me feel sad. First two weeks in America I'll be really low on my budget, because it came up that I am not getting the amount of money that I was expecting to get. It means that I won't be able to spend a lot of money in NYC. Well, ok, at least this will be a real adventure. I like adventures by the way...
I haven't even started my packing yet, so that illustrates what kind of personality I am...I am really adventurous, and often doing things at the last moment!
I guess I just wish myself good luck.

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So finally it starts...

There was a time in my life when I had no idea what a "blog" was. Then I found out and got all caught up in it! I was inspired by several blogsites that my friends held (special recognition to David and Erin James). They make it look like so much fun, so I decided to join in.
Actually, reason number 1 why I decided to start this thing is that I feel so strange right now in my life, I try to understand what I live for, what my perspectives and priorities are, and what I actually want to get from this life.
I think doing the whole blogsite thing might help me with finding answers to some of those many questions that I have.I decided to do this blog in English even though it's not my mother language. It's really funny because I was helping my friend David with learning Russian for last 2 years and now I am pretty sure that English is actually much closer to my soul.Yes, something like that...
I don't really know how it will be going, because I sometimes become so lazy that I don't even want to spend 5 minutes for doing something useful. But anyway, I think blogsite is a good invention of 20st or 21st (I am not really sure) century, and I also hope that whoever you are you'll like my blogsite (you might be my friend or just a person who by accident came to this blog).So finally it all starts...

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