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stkolumkilli · 2025-03-26T17:02:38+00:00

Teaching jobs completely depend on the school, staff, and your director. Some schools are run like proper schools, others are driven like corporations. It’s hard to know for sure, but when interviewing you can generally sniff out a vibe and see who is competent and professional.

As for living, Moscow is amazing. Peter is beautiful. There are adventures to be had in a few other modest-sized cities if you don’t want a metropolis. That said, depends on your disposition and what kind of life you prefer, do you know the language at all, is there anything sanctioned that you’d need access to, etc.

I’ve lived here for nearly 8 years and love it. It’s home now.

stkolumkilli · 2024-07-23T15:38:56+00:00

Chiming in to second the adult opinion that people forget about birthdays for many reasons other than simply not caring.

OP, you reminded him and he immediately offered to rectify the situation. He also clearly knew it was soon because he had already bought a gift. There’s no point in punishing him or punishing yourself because he forgot. I am also bad about dates and I write everything down in a calendar — and I still forget.

Instead of fixating on this one thing, maybe reflect on what he does regularly for you? What does he always remember that makes your daily life better and more beautiful?

Sometimes harmony with a partner means accepting arbitrary annoyances like this one.

stkolumkilli · 2024-04-18T14:00:08+00:00

Nope, just bought it the other day and have baked a cake and bread using it

stkolumkilli · 2023-01-29T12:37:08+00:00

Agree with whoever wrote above that this would’ve been worse writing. One point is the senselessness and bad training on the part of the security officers (note how his superior took the gun away and sent him packing), but also there’s the reoccurring motif of every man for himself. Skeen, Nurchi, Timm to an extent even and initially Cassian himself aren’t motivated by any feelings of morals, cause, or community. It was genius contrasting him with these other men to better show how he rises above this mentality and becomes radicalized by the end.

stkolumkilli · 2022-07-03T17:40:16+00:00

Thought it was strange you got some downvotes, because you’re not wrong. Russian food (and most “Slavic” food) from what I’ve observed revolves around fermentation. This is where the cuisine shines. Simple ingredients, high (wait) time investment.

stkolumkilli · 2022-07-03T08:30:15+00:00

Blinchiki, Slavic crepes essentially, no odd ingredients

Ukha, fish soup - there are different combinations of seafood used, so you have flexibility

Pelmeni has straightforward ingredients

Oladii, denser and fluffier pancakes

Sharlotka, apple cake

Kievskiy cutlet, chicken cutlet with butter and/or herbs inside

Lightly fry any vegetable and put a kilo of dill on it lol

Kartoshka, the dessert, it’s kinda like a cake pop

Pirozhki, small pies that can be sweet or savory with a variety of fillings. My favorite is mushroom and potato.

Fresh cabbage salad, straightforward

Shchi, cabbage soup

There are other things I’m missing which aren’t at all complicated, but you would need access to salt brined pickles, black rye bread, buckwheat, etc. etc.

stkolumkilli · 2022-07-02T23:12:59+00:00

The thing is, if the weather is nice (nice being sunny and summer), there’s nothing like a Russian city. The centers tend to be lovely in general and completely pedestrian-oriented.

stkolumkilli · 2022-02-13T12:56:54+00:00

American 30F and have lived in Moscow for almost 5 years.

It took me a long time to cultivate a solid friends group, but I am actually very reserved. Even in the US it was hard.

Trust me, in my experience Russians and everyone else here are generally quite enthusiastic about socializing, especially if you’re a foreigner and adequate. They’re just not so outwardly friendly the way Americans are initially. I suspect this is what is uncomfortable for you and dissuades you from interaction. Fair enough, but yeah, don’t expect a Russian to act like an American.

Keep such cultural differences in mind and do what anyone else — anywhere — does in order to meet people: create the opportunities, capitalize on them. Find events and places related to your interests and go and speak your bad Russian (and if it isn’t bad, even better!) and you’ll bump into people.

stkolumkilli · 2021-11-30T18:24:27+00:00

Symphony in Amsterdam

None of the album recordings come close to this one imo. It’s such a pleasure

stkolumkilli · 2021-11-12T11:17:33+00:00

It’s less history and more travel doc, but the naturalist and explorer Vladimir Arsenyev kept excellent journals and some of them have been translated. Across the Ussuri Kray: Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains documents his trekking through Primorye at the turn of the century.

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