Young Man's Chronicles: March 2011

My Reading

Jodi Picoult "House Rules"
Michelle Richmond "No one you know"
Dean Koontz "Mr. Murder"
John Hart "The Last Child"
Kazuo Ishiguro "When we were Orphans"
Stacey D'Erasmo "A Seahorse Year"
John Weir "What I did wrong"
Tana French "In the Woods"
Julie Powell "Julie and Julia"
Jodi Picoult "Nineteen minutes"
Nelson DeMille "The Charm School"
Jodi Picoult "My Sister's Keeper"
John Grisham "Appeal"
Stephenie Meyer "Twilight"
Jennifer Cody Epstein "The Painter from Shanghai"
Elliott Perlman "Seven Types of Ambiguity"
Michelle Richmond "The year of fog"
Amanda Eyre Ward "How to be lost"
Ted Dekker "Skin"
Ted Dekker "Th3ee"

Brothers

>> Sunday, March 27, 2011

Me and my friend Pavel in IKEA - taking some breathtaking pictures))) haha))
Notice my glasses, aren't they fun?? I bought them couple weeks ago in Amsterdam. BTW, more pics from that trip coming soon. I've just been too lazy to upload any pics on here.

Upcoming trip to Germany

>> Sunday, March 13, 2011

I still haven't had enough time to upload all the pics from the winter road-trip to Europe and share all the stories from my recent trip to Amsterdam and Dusseldorf, and another trip to Europe is already on the way)
In April me and my friend Sam are going to be participating in a 2-week international youth project in Hannover, Germany, organized and sponsored by EU. The main theme of the project will be all about how to turn your passions into smth useful, exciting and creative. 4 teams from 4 different countries [Russia, Germany, Bosnia and Spain] will be competing in creativity and completing all sorts of different tasks, most of those including outreaching to the public with certain social challenges.
Below are pics of our Russian team - we had our first preparation meeting this weekend.
Tanya, Yulia, Sam, Natasha, Valentina and me

This is where I stayed in Amsterdam

Part of the cultural experience during my trip to Amsterdam and Dusseldorf last week was staying at a real Dutch apatment with a real Dutch host - my new friend Erwin. He has a unique taste in interior design and has furnished his place all by himself - ended up being a very cozy and tasteful apartment.
An advice for future travelers - whenever traveling, it is always better and more interesting to arrange accomodation with a local, rather than just booking a hotel for a couple days. You feel like you really belong and not just visiting, plus as a bonus you get to hear a lot of amazing stories from your host about how people live and their cultural habits.