http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/rss Artyomka's latest journal entries Lang-8 Inc. Thu Jun 20 02:40:35 UTC 2013 Thu Jun 20 02:40:35 UTC 2013 Lang-8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Lang-8
Ok,I also want to ask if someone knows how Muslims marry and how they find a girlfriend in Afgan?Does a bride and bribe have a little right to choose his future half or it is the 100% choice of their parents?

Also I want to tell about an interesting accident I was a witness to a few days ago. Uzbeks gathered in circle in the center of the soccer ground near my house. In the center of that circle two of them started to fight. Each of Uzbeks didn't kick the opponent but tried to throw him on the back.The champion who did it won the battle and was carried on the backs of the others who celebrated his victory vigorously. During the battle each fighter also hold the end of a scarf and they were bound together likewise. If a person lost the end of the scarf he would have lost the fight. I’m sure this is one of many eastern traditions which has deep historical roots.But it seems to me that now guys in Afgan solve their problems using AK 47))


Posted at Fri Mar 16 18:50:28 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1368016 http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1368016 Artyomka Fri Mar 16 18:50:28 UTC 2012


I want to tell you about my journey on the last weekends to Sergiev Posad. On the way to the town I turned to Pushkino (this is a little and old settlement near the Moscow) to meet an artist I had accidentally found near St.Sergiey's Lavra 3 years before. He looked unshaved and all stained with oil so it was hard to guess that he was a professional painter. But his drawing he was working on proved the opposite. So,he invited me to see his other works and to visit him. He lives now in poverty and his life was not an easy one: his father was dispossessed of all he owned by Communists and his wife broke up with him because she thought that he was not a painter at all.(At that time it was permitted to draw only about the Communist party, and all writers, poets,painters who wanted to chose another topic were accused as nonconformists and it was shame to talk,listen or live with them)But the art was everytime everything for him,so he didn't give up and even now then he is 80 and is living alone he not only draws but also helps his 90 year old neighbour who would die without his help. During his talk to him and my previous researches using Internet I found out that his teachers were the most talanted Russian painters whose works are placed in best World galleries in Russia, the USA and Europe and cost millions dollars at an auctions. And he was the only one student from an art class whom Backsheev(ingenious impressionist of all the times) said looking on his drawings:This young guy will be a real Painter. Also Evgeny Georgievich has the only one son, who became a monch bishop and now restores an ancient monastery ruined by Communists. So, during the visit he entertained me giving me some monastyr tea and honey with bread.I also looked at his paintings and may say that they seem to me like a very old and delicious French wine:from the first glance you see little but afterwards you begin to feel the beauty which shines from them. I 'm sure as it everytime happens that later his paintings will cost a very high price.(Remember Van Ghogh's painting, which was used by peasants to close the closet as a door but afterwards was sold at the price of more than 100 millions dollars).

Talking about the whole trip I may say that it was the very exciting one and much interesting was seen. And on the back way to Moscow I and Mary,my sister both accidentally saw three huge elks eating young bark from the trees in the little birch grove which grew just opposite the rode. They were scarcely visible in the thickening dusk but I could perfectly see their shapes. We stopped the car and tried to get closer to the wild animals and I may say it was a rather dangerous idea. But those beasts seemed not wanted to face any people and the stop of the car also forced them to hide farther in the forest. As I observed them moving away: legs up to the heeps stuck into snow, young hatchlings of the antlers however not so wide as they would be in the late spring\ early summer time during the mating season the idea that every second minute they would rush at us didn't leave me away. However I still managed to take a pic of them and here it is. The other thing that amazed me was how they managed to live in the place they were pasturing.

Elks were all extirpated in the vicinity and the only one place they are kept in safety is the National Elks park.Maybe they managed to run somehow from the forest reserve?


Posted at Fri Mar 16 18:48:21 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1368015 http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1368015 Artyomka Fri Mar 16 18:48:21 UTC 2012


Hey, Friend!
So, last week was called Maslenichnaya Week. Historically it was so established that people celebrated all that week eating as much pancakes (blinis) as they could, dancing, singing and drinking, sliding down the hills and skating. At the end of this week on the Forgiveness Sunday people usually ask forgiveness to everyone, to every passerby they see. This custom is very old one, it has a close link with the upcoming Great Lent.(Usually this is a month period before the Easter, when christians limit themselves in food and delights)There is also a common practice to burn a straw dummy that harks back to the old times then people worshipped pagan gods. They imagined that the winter was that dummy ,so it meant driving her away. Also panecakes were associated with the sun. Today these two Christian and pagan feasts are closely mixed and inseparable.
On the weekends I skied all the free time and also discovered a perfect skate skiing place. I'll surely show you this wonderful track next time you go skate skiing in Russia.! I had a feeling as if I was taking part in a Biathlon World Cup in Norway: the height always changed plus track had been arranged by professional snow machine. The temperature eventually rose up to -1, +1Celcium (all the time after your departure from Moscow it was -25, so you’re a lucky guy!!) Also I saw snowborders who had a great time there, jumping from the hand made springboards. On the last weekend I also celebrated the 23 d of February - the day of all men in Russia.


I’m reading now about Alexander the Great. One episope about him made me think what would have happened if the hostile warrior had killed Alexandr, and he had not been saved. No one would have known about him and his great deeds. Anyway, he was not only clever and strong but also a very fortunate guy. I think Napoleon and many other great historical personages wanted to be like him but no one succeeded. Also I know that the body of Alexandr was put in honey and likewise saved from putrefication.

Ok, dude I’ll try to call you on Skype)) Hope hear from you soon!!

Artyom


Posted at Tue Feb 28 17:34:59 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1338887 http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1338887 Artyomka Tue Feb 28 17:34:59 UTC 2012 And here comes the question, which I always raise before me and before my friends and always do so, cause it is very easy to forget an answer. How could those dull landscapes, those shallow brooks and sloppy hills so inspire the generations of artists, writers and philosophers that they couldn’t imagine anything more beautiful and priceless than autumn time ? I’ll try to give a rather unexpected supposition, which comes home to me every time I visit my village house and every time imperceptibly eludes as if it has never come.
It is written by sages that the best way to understand yourself and your heart is to be detached from other people, from towns and shops for a while. Even a minute of silence at evenings helps to allay all the storms and gales which rarely don’t occur through the day. The trip to an absolutely different place from where you live gives you this opportunity. And if you live in a big city and see thousands of people in subway, on the streets, at shops every day, it surely should be a little rest place. Buying a little country house may be the way to find this place.

P.S. I’m not talking about meditation in popular context as people understand it in India. It also has nothing common with yoga or other spiritual rituals so enjoyed and liked by a lot of people nowadays. I just wanted to say that maybe it is better to stop for a moment instead of endless running in circle, like did heroes from the famous tale about Alice in Wonderland who were trying to dry themselves.


Posted at Wed Nov 30 10:49:41 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1206403 http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1206403 Artyomka Wed Nov 30 10:49:41 UTC 2011 I hope I can some day come to place where I can find a fresh fish. (We have only frozen fish at Moscow).I always wanted to find a place where I could buy a fresh fish. But in countries where I travelled recently I couldn’t find any fresh fish.That is incredible but you can buy in Turkey and Serbia and Montenegro only a frozen fish which is imported from other countries (it costs as much as at Moscow) and at the same time there are always many fishing coracles and vessels, floating upon the horizon.
Who knows where fresh fish is sold tell me and your reward will be a free glass of vodka. (If you come to Russia and take it) I’ll be glad to receive you all, my language loving friends))


Posted at Fri Sep 23 16:51:50 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1110256 http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1110256 Artyomka Fri Sep 23 16:51:50 UTC 2011 I have seen karate contests, various examples of ammunition and arms and have trained the real field glass on the Kremlin towers!
But the most interesting thing for me was a psychological test. The task was to choose a color on the screen which you would like the most. After I had passed it they managed to describe the traits of my character, so it was quite amazing.))
And another funny episode wich has happened to me on the weekends.
I have visited the educational Japaneese site and listened to the dialogues. Well, I have never listened japanese before, except some words I was told seldom and a back speech in films. The site is great: if an accidental person who don’t know anything about Japan visit it he would be interested in that country, its customs and relationships between japanese people. As for me I was surprised of how pupils bowed then the lesson began( I saw this episode on the one of the video lessons presented), how strictly they were dressed and sat singly at the desk. I am aware that this is all because of their national peculiarities, nevertheless that is unusual and uncanny. As concerns understanding of that they say, that is easy enough because of English subtitles.


Well I need to go, that's enough for today!


Posted at Tue Sep 13 08:32:36 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1095662 http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1095662 Artyomka Tue Sep 13 08:32:36 UTC 2011
I am studying at the Finance and Credit faculty, we have subjects dedicated to the banking system, financial institutions, history of finance, marketing and management.

I am also interested in different cultures and history as like as in studying English. I think that you can study it all your life and understand nothing.

I like reading Kharuki Murakami, Jule Vern (but sometimes he dedicates to much time describing various species, geographical places and etc.), Hemingway, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Anna Sewell (the Black Beauty),Dostoevsky,Tolstoy. Now I’m reading “The tales of King Arthur”, it’s great.

I like all kinds of music, from rock to classic.

I am interested in Irish culture and music, that would be interesting to make a visit there. It would be really interesting to look at how they dance.

One of my hobbies is beekeeping! I have been keeping bees since I have read in journal about them. Thats amazing! People thing that bees always sting, that they are agressive and offensive but that is not so if you properly manage them. Bees like other pets enjoy good treatment.

I visit Public Speaking Club too,where I study how to speak right and be heard then speaking before a big audience So, thats all for now, hope finding new friends, and be corrected where I've made mistaces

Sincerely,
Artyom

Posted at Sun Sep 11 16:35:44 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1093424 http://www.lang-8.com/308996/journals/1093424 Artyomka Sun Sep 11 16:35:44 UTC 2011