minats_zone

Dear all. I must apologize for not posting to the blog for so long. I got back from the US July 17th and experienced a very strong discomfort caused by jet lag. It was worse than when I arrived to the US from Moscow. So it took me some 10 days to get used to the time and the way things happen here, in Moscow. Now, I can start telling you about my amazing summer stay at my cousin's Dmitry house in Indianapolis, state Indiana. Firstly, I was very busy every moment of my stay there. I was kept busy by my brother and his wife Elena. Secondly, the internet access there was limited as either my brother Dmitry or his wife were doing something on the Web. Anyway, I did my best to take as many photos as possible to share them with you later. Some of them are really funny and show American life from the perspective of middle class or even wealthy Americans. At the same time,some of these photos may seem very unusual for us, Russian people. If you ask me why - my answer will probably be the

Dear all. I've been so busy lately so I really had no time to post to the blog. But it doesn't mean I forgot about it or ignored the importance of taking notes on my pretty hectic but really exciting life this year, 2007. As you know, I was in the USA in December 2006 till mid January 2007. And now here I am, in America again. The decision to go there occurred to me when my brother Dimitry, who has been living in the US since 1990, called me in the late May and invited me to stay with him for a while at the beginning of July 2007. Thanks God, I have a valid visa and the only problem was to buy a ticket and to talk my husband Stanislaw into my going there alone.He didn't want to go with me as it's neither cheap nor interesting to him (but not me). And now I'm staying with my cousin's family in the best area of Indianapolis, state Indiana. The name of the area is Fishers. It is inhabited by mostly professionals and well-off people. The houses and the state of the