russian class is one of the funnest and greatest projects i have had since my move to armenia. for $20 a month I get 3 classes a week... and after my fourth class i am proud to report that i have a vocabulary of over 300 and can have very light conversation with someone who has just walked in the door, or someone on the street who knows what the street name is, or someone with a watch, or someone whose name i do not know. it is fantastic. arthur is annoyed as hell as i keep asking his name over and over but i am learning... and that is what matters.
the real shocker came last night. our usual and main fight has to do with tv cruising. when cruising the channels, he sticks too long to the russian channels and i get upset because i do not understand anything. i call him selfish, he tries to explain the program and why it is soo important that he watch it... and we get grumpy. well last night while we were waiting for alla the massage lady... we were watching tv... and he did it again. stuck too long to the russian channel. but this time i watched and tried to listen so hard... and heard pronouns, words, verbs and phrases that i knew... it was soo exciting. i was floored. after ten minutes we realized that we had not had our usual fight and arthur turned to me and said ya tsibia lublu maya jena (i love you my wife) to which i replied... ya tsibia lublu dozha, moi muzh (i love you too my husband)... now i do not know if this is the start of eternal marital bliss... but i do know my grandma's favorite saying... inch kan lezu gides, ayd kan mard es (the more languages you know, the more person you are).
the massage lady came and started on arthur while i started my painful exercises to straighten the slight scoliosis that was never cured by geeky braces which would have resorted to junior high school ridicule. the exercises are painful and i am a bit sore... but the massage makes up for it.
arthur leaves for USA in less than a week and between massages, russian classes, elections, plays, friends, work, and family... i am happy to say... i have a full schedule to get me through the week. although he will be missed i hope to make it. don't newlyweds make you sick.
the real shocker came last night. our usual and main fight has to do with tv cruising. when cruising the channels, he sticks too long to the russian channels and i get upset because i do not understand anything. i call him selfish, he tries to explain the program and why it is soo important that he watch it... and we get grumpy. well last night while we were waiting for alla the massage lady... we were watching tv... and he did it again. stuck too long to the russian channel. but this time i watched and tried to listen so hard... and heard pronouns, words, verbs and phrases that i knew... it was soo exciting. i was floored. after ten minutes we realized that we had not had our usual fight and arthur turned to me and said ya tsibia lublu maya jena (i love you my wife) to which i replied... ya tsibia lublu dozha, moi muzh (i love you too my husband)... now i do not know if this is the start of eternal marital bliss... but i do know my grandma's favorite saying... inch kan lezu gides, ayd kan mard es (the more languages you know, the more person you are).
the massage lady came and started on arthur while i started my painful exercises to straighten the slight scoliosis that was never cured by geeky braces which would have resorted to junior high school ridicule. the exercises are painful and i am a bit sore... but the massage makes up for it.
arthur leaves for USA in less than a week and between massages, russian classes, elections, plays, friends, work, and family... i am happy to say... i have a full schedule to get me through the week. although he will be missed i hope to make it. don't newlyweds make you sick.
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