fyi

I must make a correction. Sorry St. Petersburg, but I will not be visiting you, or finding my Demitri for that matter (such a shame).
I got placed in Kiev, Ukraine!
I leave sometime between January 7th-12th.
I WILL BE THERE FOR SIX MONTHS!!
CAN WORDS EVEN EXPRESS HOW ECSTATIC I AM?!
(Ahem, Mallory, I am still torn, despite my great enthusiasm. ;) I am going to definitely have some withdrawals without my lovely roommie. And no texting you every single random happening that I could ever even ramble about in a day?? What is that going to do to me psychologically??? *shudder..)

Anyway. I am going to live in a foreign country. For six months. During the coldest of absolute deathly bitter freezing months. Yikes. And do I speak a lick of Russian? Have I even figured out how to say "hello" yet??
Of course not.
It's 12 letters of the Cyrillic alphabet long. And also, Russian is not phonetic. It is not pronounced the way it is spelled. Intimidating? I think yes. But never fear. I am determined to learn this fantastic, beautiful language.
There is going to be a LOT of charades going on for those six months :)

Oh, and by the way, if you are wondering how to pronounce "Kiev,"
It is pronounced "keev" in Ukrainian, and "key-ev" in Russian. So no matter how you say it, you'll always be right! (I know you were stressing about that)

Досвидания!