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Comparing

The first real day in Helsinki I didn’t have enough euros on me. I hadn’t had a chance to go to an ATM. But I was so thirsty. I was buying some water for about 1 euro. I asked if I could use my credit card. And their answer was “yes” without hesitation. In Russia, [...]

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So many things have happened to me since I have been gone, but I think it will be best to first focus on all the ways that Russia is worse than all the countries that I visited, and point out all the various reasons why I was stupid enough to pick to study abroad in [...]

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So I have been out of the country, and sadly by country I mean Russia, for while now. I went on two exciting trips. One was to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Russia with my brother and father, and the second trip was to Greece with some of my friends whom I study with here in [...]

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Sunless Days

Today I decided to talk a nice long walk to really feel the city. It was another cold and sunless day. In fact the sun has yet to show its shiny face here in st. Petersburg since I have been back to Russia. What a sad thing. But what was really funny was how many [...]

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So the other day I decided it would be culturally enriching if I went to see the zoological museum here in st. pete. I was excited. I read in my handy dandy guidebook that this museum is one of the most detailed and well stocked zoological museums in the world, and it houses the mammoth [...]

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