yes, but can you wear a tie in that sport?

All right. So guess what. Well. For one thing, i am on a terrible keyboard again. suffer, people. suffer. an for another thing--it snowed last night! i know! it's really hard to express excitement without capital letters, but oh well!
i was (am, really) just over the moon about it. we got this little frosting of snow that's burned off by now (about six o clock in the evening) and it was so beautiful, and i got to see it falling, and was so happy i couldn't stop smiling. my host family found this very amusing. it's so beautiful! i'm so happy! snow!
here's the news on Russian weather--apparently, the first snow is always very light, and burns off very soon. this year's snow was unusually late (can you believe it?). a month after the first snow, winter begins, and i think that a few days after the first snow it snows again.
so it was cold today. oy oy oy. my ears! my hands! i trotted straight to a store after school and got myself a scarf, which has kept me fairly toasty. i'm quite warm as long as i'm walking.
russian lessons have started too! every day i have a russian lesson now, for an hour and a half or more after school. they're quite interesting, and keep me on my toes, but it's all material i've covered already, so i think we'll finish the text book by the end of next week, and we can get on to more complex stuff. i'm so excited.
snow!
what else to tell you? hm...i had fish for dinner last night. it was very tasty. um...oh, here, you'll love this! I'm often in my host mum's restaurant, which is modeled after an english pub. they're always playing sports, so i get to see the live sports coverage in russia--and you're going to love this, american academy (and dad)--they had live coverage of a chess game on the sports channel. they do so regularly. except the name is cooler here--it's "shakhMAtih." sweet.
oh, and there was so much else i wanted to tell you and forgot all about!
whenever my parents are in novosibirsk on business, i...dang it. got to run. sorry, i'll right more later! i know this post is all over the place, but i haven't got time to clean it up. cheers!