The last 2 weeks

My new life here in Russia started exactly fifteen days ago. It is a strange feeling to live in a place you never saw before, to call random people, you even don't knew they would exist, your new family. You don't know anybody here, you don't even know yourself. 

Of course I knew it wouldn't be easy to do this, but I never thought everything would be so different as I expected it.

You can surely imagine that the first days were very difficult because as I mentioned everything is new and I got too much impressions and information in a short time.

I started my first school day with algebra in my "official class".
My private Russian teacher introduced me to my new class. I'm a really shy guy so I didn't say anything and I sat on a chair in front of a desk. Fortunately my brother didn't let me alone and he sat next to me.
The lesson continued.
I felt how everybody was looking at me. Believe me that's just a incredibly disgusting feeling.
Ok, one deep breath and I looked towards the teacher and the black-board...
Just take into account that I don't really like math class, but what did I see on this black-board?
I just thought: "WTF!" I asked the teacher if this should be trigonometry.
"Yes" - she said.
I wrote on a piece of paper what we learned about trigonometry in Switzerland.
I showed her and she was like: "I'm sorry my dear but that's 9th class-stuff"
Some pupils stated to giggle and I just thought: Shit! What a great beginning in my new class! (Now I have to laugh about this too, because it really seems funny to me in retrospect. :-))
At this point I have to mention, that Russians are real math-beasts.
I hope that soon I will have the chance to become also a good math-student. But first I'll have to learn the Russian language.

I think that this is one of the biggest problems at the moment. I don't know my class and they don't know me and maybe they don't like me or think that I'm a unpleasant guy. It really concerns me...

Despite all the negative feelings I was happy that the teachers were so kind to me.
"We are very happy that you are here and we will do everything for you so you can enjoy your time in our school".
Wow. OK! Thank you very much! - I didn't find any other words in this moment.
My private Russian teacher showed me everything in the school and of course eeeeeveryone looked at me like I was a freakin' zombie! And the pupils still do but now they chuckle and greet me. All this kindness makes me forget the negative feelings in my head. So yeah! In school I'm a happy guy because I have my tasks to do, I meet my friends (although I don't have a lot) and hardly ever I have to bear boring minutes.

What about my family?

I have two nice parents and I really like them! Of course the same thing with my brother... He is a very good person and he has a great heart, but it bothers me a lot that he is always playing computer games. I respect him I let him do whatever he wants to do. But it makes me really sad that he does not want to communicate with me. It annoys him if I ask him something about my homework and I really don't know what to do. I feel numb. And I don't want to talk to anybody in this flat anymore. I think I'm getting a depression. I ask myself how it would be in another host family... Maybe the same, maybe not? I don't know. Maybe it's my fault?
It's really boring here. Sometimes I want to go home.
I never thought that it could be as boring as in Switzerland!
But hey... Who knows, maybe things will get better soon.


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Destiny, fortune, fate, coincidence
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A short summary:

Things I don't like about Lyantor:

- Too cold
- Bad infrastructure (no restaurants, little public transport, little leisure activities)
- Clothes of bad quality

Things I like about Lyantor:

- The mentality of people I know until now is pleasant
- Cheap taxi
- School system is better than in Switzerland
- A lot of beautiful girls :-)

During my journey

My best friends, very kind People with great hearts.