Deposits

Uh oh, opening e-mails is now starting to become a little too scary. The last e-mail was full of forms to fill in and requests for deposits. Everything is starting to become so real and so very very close.




Although, on a positive note, I felt really excited to go to Moscow for the first time in a couple of months.

Recently I've been a little scared and a little upset that I'm going to miss out on so much next year. I'm going to miss my good old English friends so much and I'm going to miss going to the pub quiz every week and bingo (not that I ever win of course) and I'm going to miss the winging about who's going to pick who up and where we're going to eat and what time we're getting to places etc.

However, looking at photos from people who are spending this year in Russia always makes me so enthusiastic, despite the worry that the accommodation won't be all that amazing.



Accommodation is certainly one of my biggest worries. Not that it's going to be uninhabitable of course, just that it's not going to be up to the standards of an English home. Like obviously Russian decoration is different and a little more rustic shall we say. I'm sure it'll be fine, it's not like Russia is some poverty stricken dump. I'm basically just really hoping that I get a hozyaika like my one from when I went in 2007, the apartment of a wealthy owner of a piping company (I think, I know it was something to do with piping, not sure if he was the owner though).

That brings up another concern as well. Having not lived away from home, I'm really looking forward to being completely independent, and I'm worried that living with a hozyaika will be as restrictive as living at home. I don't particularly want to have to get home by a certain time or not be able to have friends around whenever I want, or not to be able to cook whenever I want (probably my biggest worry). Of course, all of this is balanced out by the prospect of having someone constantly there to speak Russian to (again, hoping that they aren't like the other Russians I've met who are desperate to speak English all the time).



I suppose it's difficult to judge the situation until I'm actually there.

So, I'll address these concerns when I'm over there.