Hi all,
i'm off to Russia once again in one month i cannot even believe it!!!
After my Volgograd trip i thought i wouldn't go to russia for at least a year since i had no money and still one year of studying to do.
I accepted messages on icq from russians though, so i could chat with them and not loose all the improvements i had made this summer.
I got a message from a girl in chelyabinsk 2 1/2 month ago(she thought i was russian, because i guess she made a search with the language parameter only, and wasn't really into meeting foreigners)
after 2 weeks of chatting, she bought a microphone...I did the same 2-3 weeks later, and then it really started.
*piece of advice : msn 6.0 with the microphone support is worth a telephone!!! Moreover if you have enough language skills to chat in russian, do it this way...actually as i said, i was not at all looking for a relationship with Russia now, but i did nothing and it seems what i had been looking for those past years just came at the most unexpected moment!*
BAsically our chats grew longer and longer, until we spent whole nights speaking with each other and laughing. We spoke about our feelings with each other and we are both amazed that we could develop sth that strong only through an internet connection.
SO you don't care about it, but it's almost so much of a miracle that i feel i have to tell it to the whole world(sorry i guess i'll never change, the head tries to be incontrol, but ohhh it's hard;))
I couldn't go there i had NO money..and 2 days after we confessed our mutual feelings, i get a job( doing all the IT system of an enterprise of consulting who employs 30 pple...so it will be great for my resume!!!) then i get a scholarship from the state of 8000$ for 8 months, a friend i hadn't seen in 6 months comes back and gives me the money he owed me, and my doctor tells me i shouldn't have problems with my knee(broke it VERY badly last winter snowboarding) for the next 3 years, as i was thinking i needed surgery in the next 2 months!!!
So in one week, i go from nothing(and less since i had my flat robbed while in Russia if you remember) and a leg that needed surgery to 13000$ for 8 months and no surgery needed, and plane ticket in the pocket...i'm on a little cloud now;)
So it appears that contrarily to my previous beliefs that if your life is going very bad at some point, it still can be very good a while later...Just at the time i had lost hope(about everything, i just thought i would have to finish my studies in a squat or sth), it gets better!!!
All of this to say i need info about chelyabinsk, mostly for accomodation, but as well i'd like to get a few tips abotu anything if someone has already been there(and yes i know i shoudln't drink water or eat shrooms or fish;))
thx for the input,
Patrick
