In the last
week I experienced a freefall in terms of motivation. In fact, I just felt that
I had enough of the irritation I feel towards certain nations I’m surrounded by
and of the fact that I couldn’t sleep well in the last few weeks. Plus on
Monday I tried to do my laundry which turned out to be a disaster. I had to
wash everything out again by hand. I’ll give it another try later on though.
Moral lesson: don’t set unknown programmes on unknown washing machines!
It is good that
it is for free. We can wash from 9-13 and 15-23 every day. You just have to be
there 10-15 minutes prior to opening, otherwise you won’t get a machine/have to
wait. And there are drying machines too. I don’t use them, because I brought a
few meters of alpinist rope, so I dry everything in the room.
I managed to
find the bright side of life again on Wednesday, when we went to the CS meeting
again, which turned out to be the loveliest one so far. We were in a Georgian
restaurant where the singer sang so unreasonably loud that we had to shout over
our foods and beer (lovely one!). It was surreal!
My circle of
acquaintances became bigger with some locals, an American, a French, a British
and German. One can find so many great people in town! Incredible!
Another
positive thing was on Wednesday that the Hungarian proofreader/teacher came to
see me. She is very nice. I’ll visit her and her family.
We are working
right now on visiting the Museum of Contemporary Belarusian Statehood (Музей
современной белорусской государственности) which can be found in the building
of the Presidential Office. I’m really looking forward to going there, but it
is a bit circumstantial. First we have to go to the Natural History Museum, if
I remember well, so that they could make a photocopy of our passports. I hope
for the best. I’ve seen some pictures on their website. The museum sounds
really promising. And the fact that it is in the building where Lukasenko
works, just makes it even more interesting!
The weekend has
arrived and with it the lovely sunny, spring weather went away. I’m writing
this post on Sunday in the study room, and in the course of 10 minutes I’ve
seen heavy snowfall, fierce wind and sunshine. Like Armageddon. I wouldn’t mind
if the snow remained, but I doubt that it’ll happen.
Due to the
rather bad weather I didn’t go anywhere this weekend. We watched together with
Mélanie and Simon some Breaking Bad episode (new addiction) and turned
Mélanie’s room into a hairdresser’s salon. It was definitely fun. We’ll
continue today with another episode, during the course of which I plane to
enjoy my delicious Belgian Peach Beer which is cooling in the fridge right now.
Now that I mentioned
beers I must take a note of yet another discovery: Белый Медведь, that is, White Bear is a beer that I
discovered and got to like here. It has a polar bear on the glass and is wheat
beer.
I told you this
already that I read a lot here (as well). Currently I’m reading the History of
Terrorism which I found very interesting. This is a topic I’m absolutely
absorbed in lately.
One last piece
of info: I have watched Django Unchained on the weekend. It was the Russian
version, which made it even better. I have to say that the Russian dubbing is
good!
Merry Christmas! It’s snowing.
Пока!
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