Right about... here.
It's about a 50 minute commute to my building at St. Petersburg State on Vasilevskii island, so all in all, not bad.
Nina Vasileevna is retired with the exception of taking care of me, a task to which she puts forth a great amount of attention (and I am quite thankful!). If I could find a fault with her cooking, it might be that there's always a little too much of it located in my belly, but it pleases her when I eat a lot, so i try my best :).
Vitalii Petrovich is an engineer with a construction company. If I had a similar education, I might be able to more accurately explain exactly what kind of projects his organization works on, but as of yet my understanding is still a bit dim. He's Ukranian in terms of nationality and I learn plenty of interesting colloquialisms, phrases, expressions in Russian and sometimes in Ukrainian.
Here's a picture from our dinner last night, which lasted for four hours and two bottles of cognac.
If there are any specific questions about my homestay, please send 'em my way. -Иван
5 comments:
You're looking really good, Jon! Your host family is cute too. Who's the other young fella?
Thanks for the update, also, by the way! I'm really glad it's going well for you. I hope to follow in your flagship footsteps! Do you like my alliteration there? =)
If you have time sometime, could you fill me in on what the application process was like? What was scariest? How was the phone interview?
Jonathan, it's easy to see who the Americans are -- the ones with the Big Teeth!! Hey, what are all the goodies on the table?? And the yellow stuff in the bucket? Ooo, I can see the vodka too!
p.s. gosh I miss you!!
My uneducated impression of Russian cooking provides me with images of root vegetables, meats, things with beets etc and a touch of scurvy. Let’s go ahead and presume that I am wrong. What kind of fare is consumed in the house?
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