Das russische Etwas in Mir: Why? Why not!

Please notice: Before I will start telling about the current happenings in my student exchange, I want you to know some general stuff about me and this entire happening. Of Course with pleasure I accept your suggestions for my posts in the future :-)

Why a student exchange? Why Russia? Why Lyantor?

A lot of people asked me exacltly these three questions.
I guess the most people who read this are from Europe and live in a typical routine.
Mine was:

Get up at 7:15
Be at school at 8:00 (yes I like to sleep a lot ;-))
From 8:05 until 12:00 the usual school routine + do homework during the big break
12:00 until 13:35 is the best part of the day in my opinion. Have lunch with friends.
13:45 until end of schoolday (depending on day, obviously) more boring school
Arrive at home at around 17:00 (in average)
Eat something then do homework, learn, sit in front of my computer or go to the gym until 20:00
Eat again, maybe play on the piano, again sit in front of the computer and finally sleep.

If this doesn't seem boring to you then I'll show you how I lived to see this routine:

- Go to school

- Study

- Sleep

So that's it! And at weekends if there was time of course have fun with friends or just sleep all day and all night. I don't know if you enjoy your routine, but if you ask me someday it just gets boring. While I was learning, while I woke up, while I was taking a shower, while I was in class I thought: There's more in life, there is more in our world than THIS. There were some phases when I kinda got some little depressions. I started to loose sight of myself. Who am I? What's my match by doing all this?

The keyword is distance.

(In my last post I mentioned that also here everything is getting boring, but hey at least it is another kind of boredom than in Switzerland and I make a totally new experience.)

Everyone will arrive at the point when distance gets as important as closeness. The greatest part of people get the distance when they become old and they retire. They finally can start to see things in another way.

But the varietal of distance I needed was just distance of my own life and everything that was in relation with it. My family, my friends, my school, my home, Switzerland, Europe. I mean just everything!

You may think I'm a pessimistic person but I'm just a deep thinker, I have a wide vision to see things and I'm just curious. You can call me crazy, OK. I tell you it's nothing more than matter of opinion.

This exchange will help me to be acquainted with myself. This experience here will help me for my future. And of course don't forget: I will learn the russian language! ...well... I hope so. :-)

This was the response to the question: Why a stundent exchange?
I think now you see that it is a really tricky question to answer to, but I hope you got an idea of my wannabe phylosophic explanation. :-P

The other way to explain it would just be: Why not! There's more in russia than just Vodka and Putin!
Beginning with this setence I'll try to answer the question: Why Russia?
The biggest part of exchange students want to go to the USA, Costa Rica, Spain, Italy, Canada... But who on earth goes to Russia? Let's try to do a little experiment:

What do you as a European know about Russia?
Hmm? Not really a lot don't you?

Russia is the biggest country of our entire earth and I don't know anything about this country, so let's go there! This will be fun and interesting! - I thought.
And it really is interesting. I can't tell you a lot about Russia yet, but I hope I will be able to tell you more about Russia soon...

And finally why did I want to go to Lyantor, this cold place where it is always boring as hell?

Well... I didn't.
I just wanted to go to Russia. I was sent to a random city and in my case it is Lyantor.
Am I happy to be here?
I think yes...
Do I want to go somwhere else?
I don't know...
I'll try to make the best of this situation.

To finish this post I want to say that today in the morning my mood was really, really bad but now I feel better because I have some good and funny friends ;-) (remember the last foto in my post of yesterday)

До следующего раза!