The Devushka Diaries
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A Canadian girl's take on life in the land of Tolstoy, troikas, and vodka while working as an ESL teacher just outside of Moscow.
tags: history, running, teaching ESL, travels
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After graduating from university, I decided to take a year off to work as an ESL teacher in Russia, a country whose history, literature, and culture I've loved from a distance! This is my take as a Canadian girl on life in the land of Tolstoy, troikas and vodka!
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New year, new country, new blog
Posted on 14/09/2011
I mentioned on a previous post that this year, I'm saying da svidanya to Russia and hello to England. If you're interested in following my UK adventures, I've got a new blog...
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Tragedy for a Hockey Town
Posted on 14/09/2011
The recent, heartbreakingly tragic plane crash that took the lives of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl KHL hockey team has been weighing on my heart. After reading about it in my local newspaper...
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Happy 450th Birthday, St. Basil's!
Posted on 12/07/2011
This is the Google header for today - the 450th birthday of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, which is the most breathtaking piece of architecture I've ever seen.Red Square from...
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Missing the Wild East
Posted on 11/07/2011
Katie the Canadian girl Katya the Russian girlI've been back in Canada for a little more than a week, and I'm just getting used to being able to go running without looking over my...
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The Land of Smiles
Posted on 30/06/2011
Quick update from Heathrow Airport.The flight from Moscow to London was very smooth and quick. The best part of it all was that I had a window seat and an unoccupied seat next to me! But...
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Farewell, Moscow
Posted on 29/06/2011
As I'm writing this, I'm sitting in the tiny, hot, stuffy flat on Dimitrovskoe Shosse in Moscow that has been my "home" for the past few days. I've got my window...
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The Beet Stops Here
Posted on 27/06/2011
A shocking confession: I am beet. Beets - my longtime love - have beat me.After eating them approximately twice a day for the last month, I don't want to see another beet for a very,...
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Things in a Russian supermarket
Posted on 15/06/2011
I was inspired today by David Lebovitz, an American chef/writer whose blog on food and life in the City of Light I like to read. He just wrote a post on "goofy things in a Paris...
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Met-iquette: the unspoken rules of the Moscow Metro
Posted on 14/06/2011
I have heard it said that it is only on the metro that you will encounter Muscovites adhering to any form of polite etiquette. In the streets, anything goes. But on the metro, you best...
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Brief sojourn in Moscow
Posted on 12/06/2011
Guess where I'm writing this from?Moscow!Nope, I didn't escape from the compound by scaling the concrete walls and hitching a ride back to the city. I'm here on a...
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