This weekend we went to Boarders bookstore to pick up a russian-english pocket dictionary to take with us to Kaz. As we were picking up books and making a choice Sandy picked up a book and much to her/our shock it had every 4 letter swear word you could possibly think of in russian!!! Turns out it was a russian phrase book for dating?!?!?, seems to be more suited to being a phrase book for driving in Almaty from what we've heard. No No we didn't buy it we ended up buying the Berlitz Russian phrase book and dictionary no naughty words in this book ;-) lots of color coded pages with everything from food, eating out, accommodations, renting and more, words and phrases to help with each situation. This should come in handy and fit easily in my back pocket. I've been trying to learn more russian but it will help to have a cheat sheet in my pocket. I've been looking into electronic talking translators but some of the better ones cost as much as a laptop. I'm still checking out E-bay for a good deal.
We just found out today 2 more families will be traveling later this month to the Almaty region so we should be moving up the list. We figure if we had asked for a boy we probably would have traveled in Nov.-Dec. the only good thing about waiting is that we can learn more Russian and not have to worry about a Pennsylvania ice storm like we are having tonight delay a flight if we were to have traveled in Jan-Feb or early March.
Well that's all for now time to study more Russian.
To the traveling families we hope for a safe and wonderful trip.
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Make sure you learn how to say "excuse me" because you WILL have someone standing in a doorway in your way and they will NOT simply move out of the way even though they see you and know you need to get through. I don't have enough fingers to count how many times that happened to us!
Do you have an exact travel date? We are also in PA and can relate to the cold cold winters. We are so excited for your both...It seems like the waiting is endless... But learning about family's traveling certainly helps the process... We will keep checking back to learn how your travel plans are going!!
Danny and Kari Harmon :)
Do you have an exact travel date? We are also in PA and can relate to the cold cold winters. We are so excited for your both...It seems like the waiting is endless... But learning about family's traveling certainly helps the process... We will keep checking back to learn how your travel plans are going!!
Danny and Kari Harmon :)
Do you have an exact travel date? We are also in PA and can relate to the cold cold winters. We are so excited for your both...It seems like the waiting is endless... But learning about family's traveling certainly helps the process... We will keep checking back to learn how your travel plans are going!!
Danny and Kari Harmon :)
Hello, its the Harmons again.
I just ran across this website and thought I'd pass it on. I think I'll be adding it to our blog.
Thanks Kari
http://www.russianlessons.net/lessons/lesson1_main.php
Okay enough fooling around here. You need your LOI. I'm ready for you to travel. I've been ready for a while but you need it this week.
Okay enough fooling around here. You need your LOI. I'm ready for you to travel. I've been ready for a while but you need it this week.
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