Hello, friends!
I wasn't going to keep a blog, but my mom asked me to. This is where I will be recording whatever Russia-thoughts I would like to share with the world at large on this ten-week jaunt into the heart of the Volga region. (Personalized Russia-thoughts will be delivered to relevant parties by email, so if I promised you I'd correspond with you this summer - we're still on.)
The blog's name is "Matushka Volga" - "Mother Volga." I shamelessly stole this name for the Volga River from a song by Lubeh, Putin's favorite pop-rock group, but I'm pretty sure it's also called that by people other than sentimental/militaristic nostalgia-mongers. (I love Lubeh, actually. But sort of ironically.)
The original name was going to be "Moya Prekrasnaya Nyanya" - "My Beautiful Nanny," the title of the Russian remake of the Fran Drescher sitcom "The Nanny" (yes, really, there's a Russian remake). Alas, I decided that since I'm going to try to avoid writing about the nannying aspects of my job and my charges (henceforth the Kazan ducklings) too much, it wasn't a particularly apt name.
I leave in less than a week, so look for more posts soon!
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