Friday, August 12, 2011
Should I just up and move to Russia? Will I find work? Will they kill me? Will I be a rock star?
Sometimes I feel like I've spent so many years with visitors and recent immigrants that I am one. Born and raised in the States, though. I have no Russian blood. I've been only once and loved it and wanted to stay weeks longer. I've had tons of friends from all over the fmr Sov Union... I'm conversationally fluent and can recite Pushkin by heart. I have a small vocabulary, but can read, write, speak, understand... Some parts of Russia hate hate Americans. I'm of Asian blood and some skinheads in the market hate all kinds of people and will just kill you for your jacket if you are not Russian street smart. I love Russia, the mindset, the pop music, movies old and new... the old culture, the ancient culture and the Russia of today. I love the excitement, tradition, craziness, and change... I am in technology and could probably get an IT-Related job. I have friends and acquaintances from Kaliningrad to Moscow to Rostov Na Don... Kharkov, Petropavlovsk and Vladivostok. I love blini, traditional borsh, pelmeni s smetyanoi, krasnuyu ikru... I can touch type on the computer keyboard in both languages and not necessarily "stuck" in either one culture or the other. I can float my ideas, foundations. I don't want to join the CIA or FSB, though. Should I just burn my frequent flyer miles and go and never come back?
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