XXX-MAS!!!!!!! (warning, adult content)

(Per usual, this post was actually written 2 days ago)

Merry Christmas from Siberia! Well actually while everyone back home is celebrating Christmas, I am doing nothing special on this, the 25th day of December. Why is this? Well it’s because Russians celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January. Apparently they don’t understand that it is absolute, proven fact that Jesus Christ was born on the 25th! Duh, everyone knows this, just like everyone knows he shares his birthday with Santa Claus! Well actually they celebrate on the 7th because the eastern orthodox church still follows the Julian calendar in spite of the proven superiorty of the Gregorian version 2.0.  So anyways, nobody else here cares that tomorrow is the 25th of December. In fact tomorrow I’m giving a test!

But all the same the holiday spirit is alive and well here in Siberia, although it doesn’t quite compare with the orgy of consumption and christmas lights of back home. I have been invited to many new years parties and am excited to celebrate new year’s eve ala russki, because this is their most important holiday. But most of all, I’m looking forward to the 3rd of January, which is the official start to my month of travel across half of Russia to Petersburg, then on to Europe with stops in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Prague, and then to Moscow and once again into the heart of the beast called Siberia.

Some other tasty nuggets of news from siberia:

Last week our academy hosted their 9th annual “Festival of Foreign Song” which mainly  consisted of students singing along, and dancing, to American, German, and French pop songs. I contributed a song on my banjo and even sang, making my voice sound as “country” as possible in order to cover the fact that I suck at singing. The festival as a whole was a big success, and I got many compliments for my performance, (mostly praising its originality rather than its quality) . There were quite a few talented singers, but my favorite performance was by a group of students who did a live cover of the Ghostbusters theme song on guitar, bass, and accordian.

Last week Nicholas and I also hosted a Christmas party which was disguised as an English Club gathering but in reality was just a party with lots of food and wine. I made waffles, which are not the same thing as american waffles.  You make them in a wafflenitsa similar to our waffle makers, but you make them really really thin and then roll them up into little cylindrical waffly crispy guys and eat them with your fingers.  Yum!

I realized the other day just how much I miss high fives…

I will soon have pictures, and maybe even a bit of video from the music festival

Sorry about my flagrant blog negligence, I promise I’ll be better. Soon it will be a new year, and my resolution is to be a better blogger ))))))))

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