home sweet home

I've been home! In Russia! In Ekaterinburg!!! You cannot even imagine how it feels to go out of the plane after 14 months being away and to see the city that you've been living in for more than 20 years looking so familiar but already different. It seemed like I've never been away but felt so weird to be there again, to see all those buildings that I passed by 1mln times in my life. Although even after just 1 year it already felted like I don't belong there now and 3 crowns of Stadshuset seem to be more common than a star of Adminisration on 1905 square in Ekb.
Although what first really freaked me out already while changing airports in Moscow - people. Russian speaking people everywhere!:) Believe me it's amazing. Especially after crawling around Sweden, Spain, France and whatever for such time I got absolutely confused about in which language I need to talk to people. And I always noticed and turned my head automatically to ppl speaking Russian as I do in Stockholm...and they all spoke Russian..:) freaky:)
But finally I met with my dear friends and all strange things and impretions didn't matter anymore:)
Uff, it was taft. 9 days of almost constant drinking and pub-club crawling at nights and then pathetic efforts to work on 3 study projects in order not to be killed by university mates in the morning..... I managed! and must say that I really loved it!
And now after coming back to calm and clean Stockholm I must admit I miss messy, sometimes dirty but fun Russia with all it's 24 hours shops, full clubs, traffic jams even at night and...just real life! It was almost like Barcelona (which is definetely still top 1 city ever in my list) but with people that I love around...

Ganina Yama
US (me, Anka, Lelik, Julichnaya)

night city rally

By the way, what did we do there? I've been shown almost all new opened clubs and bars in the city:) Why I love Russia also is that you never have problems with moving from club to club at 4 in the morning - just go out to the street, raise your hand, cars stops and you go. Even when you're 6 drunk ppl:)

We went to Ganina Yama (thanx to Dima:) also - a place where they burned and buried the bodies of the last Russian royal family (Nicolas II and Co). Nice wooden churches but too freaky cold:P

Cinema - well, this was not that nice experience...apart fromt eh coctail in a cinema bar for the price of kafe och kanelbulle (1,5 euro). Aparently movie producers decided that they won't earn enough money in normal way and just divided the movie into 2. So after 1,5 hours, at the most interesting moment of we've seen "to be continued...". Fy fan!!!!! Apparently it's Film 1 and Film 2 will be shown in the cinemas in 3 weeks or so. Nice......

And of course I couldn't miss home-based drinking at our 33 square meters - Lelik:) Limoncello, glögg, and of course congnac:)))

I love Russia!