Thursday, October 16, 2008

My Old Cats Has Started Weeing

After over one month of absence I'm back! It's beautiful

Yep, I finally internet! One of the Kazak obchejitié (City U so ...) we installed it for 300 rubles (6 euros). There is no wi-fi to obchejitié and this installation was more of a DIY (crafty!) With the four ends of the cables that hung in my window than anything else!

past month he has spent a lot of things. I had time to visist some Moscow, losing myself a hundred times in a university in the titanic dimensions (at least!), To connect me every day or almost!, God is on Radio Echo of Moscow, to meet a lot of people, Russians or foreigners and four poor attempt to put words in the language of Pushkin in the conversation, partying, but I do not bump it, to work too! Ah! and I forgot to queue for three consecutive days to pay for my room (for three months!) and get my new propousk and thus be allowed to go home at night.

In the 10 commandments of life in Russia is the first one: without propousk (passes) you're nothing!


To change the subject completely, here are some photos of my wanderings dans Moscou :

Maniejnaia Plochtchad', la place juste à côté de la Place Rouge et du Kremlin.



La statue du Général Joukov, toujours sur Maniejnaia Plotchtchad'.
Le petit bâtiment avec le dôme bleu c'est le Point Zéro deMoscou.
La petite église du coin de la mythique Krasnaia Plochtchad', la Place Rouge. Basile le Bienheureux !
Balade sur la célèbre Staryii Arbat (le vieil Arbat), le quartier dissidents from Soviet times. Here, Pushkin and his wife Natalia. Re-
Staryii Arbat. Very kitschy statue, right?

Staryii Arbat Still, there is an animation for the feast of the town (of dubious taste in my humble opinion, the type chanting "Ia soldier" I am a soldier, then, as if it were a major drag argument. Given the reputation of the Russian army ... yes, well, I digress here)


In Moscow, you can not take three steps without fall on the police and guards, the OMON (riot police forces) and the military. The Day of the city, he should well be on Maniejnaia Ploshchad '50 trucks OMON breaking everything and without exaggeration, not to mention simple cops and the military. To get into college and we must show our obchejitié propousk security guards, in short, uniforms are ubiquitous in our lives! Just yesterday, when we went to the outskirts of the city there were many hundreds of military trucks and guys in camouflage on the start, in addition to the Mounties ... Truthful! and very scary. I'm not really felt the courage to leave my camera ...
View on the Moscow River, during a walk in Gorky Park.

Gorky Park.



Another view of the Moskva, always the same ride.

A statue of Lenin, near the metro station Park Kultury


Also near the Park Kultury station, and a very nice brothel architectural representative in Moscow!


Pobiedy Park, Park of Victory.

Re-Pobiedy Park.

Park Pobiedy yet.
A detail of the building.
In Victory Park, it was inevitable!
Pobiedy Park forever! One would think that it is never the same place is not it?
The beautiful church Pobiedy Park.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Cruising Sacramento Gay Spots

a visa anyway ...


Following administrative mixups that have occupied for a month from oblivion by the МГУ (pronounced emguéou) to send our letters of invitation to the anxieties associated with those dates on will not forget the problems to shift our flight, we finally got our visas! And quickly too! By 1:30 they were ready! To be honest I still can not ...


We left at 4am Fougeres to arrive on time for the opening of the consulate and be sure to pass (they can in theory you back at 11am into practice they do it at 10am and closes at noon consulate);

an image of the consulate:''bunker''rather as a style no?


We have seen a succession of a CRS pacing in front of the consulate, a police car stopped and a cop whose descended rapidly rising to the same speed, and a police car which was reluctant to stop ... Atmosphere ...














another image of the consulate. With the Russian eagle this time ... It

There were twenty people in total at the consulate at 9am. It came quickly and was selected the correct queue because after twenty minutes they were almost certain to have our visas to 10.30 ...

There were some within the Russian consulate in addition to the staff that is exclusively Russian (évidemment. ..). It was a pleasure to hear Russian and it made him want to go ...
because we were a bit chilled when even after all our misfortunes!

Finally we got our visas (the voltage is really down when they had in our hands ...). Exhausted but happy, we can finally deal quietly our suitcase and fly the mind (almost) quiet at 1st September ....

Russian visa! The famous, the one and only!


NB: for all IEPiens voulent from next year in Russia, do not take your air tickets when you receive your letters of invitation and not before, even if you press a little to the IEP to take them ... it will save you a lot of trouble ....






















Wednesday, August 27, 2008

How To Hack A Sentry Safe



s it! Finally a start date! So we take off on 1 September for the frozen steppes of the East (Moscow lol! is not really the steppe ... well I think!). Of course, we still have our visa to get to Paris. The question is: Do we want to have us give?
To be continued ...