Protected: The Initiation Phase
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Christmas in Russia
It’s 1.55 am Christmas morning, and I have finally wrapped all the presents and filled the stockings. I’m sure it would be a lot easier if I were just...
Rolling Stones Gather No Moss
But I wouldn’t mind gathering just a little! For a girl who spent 25 years of her life in the one house in a leafy suburb of Melbourne, moving...
My walk to uni
We are very blessed to live in a location not too far out of the city (distance-wise that is, time-wise it is a completely different matter!) that is surrounded...
Russia
Picture: “Ribena” tree. No, not like the drink in Australia, but a beautiful tree that was in full flourish when we arrived. Only a few short weeks later its...
The great Russian taboo…
Just like any country, Russia has its societal taboos. Things we’d rather not believe or admit existed, things too shameful to be talked about. I discovered a statistic that...