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		<title>Burnt by the Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 8 or 10 years ago my sister was in a used movie and cd store near downtown Dayton, Ohio, where we are from. She was scanning through all of the movies which lined the walls there, mostly stocked at that time with VHS, DVD having not yet rendered them obsolete. She would in that patrol [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=851710&amp;post=44&amp;subd=goodbyebabylenin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few reflections on Russia and America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As there are almost infinite things I could write about from the past year, I&#8217;ll just talk about something off the top of my head. It&#8217;s futile to try to summarize at this point. Russia&#8230; I love it and I hate it. I scoff at it and I revere it. I want to stay and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=851710&amp;post=39&amp;subd=goodbyebabylenin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m still here, barely</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am rather sure that no one reads this anymore and with good reason. In recent years I&#8217;ve had various blogs, all of which I haven&#8217;t really kept up well, with the exception of the blog I keep in Russian at livejournal. Of course, to most people who know me this is pretty worthless because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=851710&amp;post=37&amp;subd=goodbyebabylenin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Russian Soul and an update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upthera44</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone in my Fulbright group sent out a link to this amazing, funny website &#8211; Big Russian Soul - which I wanted to pass along. Other than my recent post of a poem by Aleksandr Blok, I haven&#8217;t written anything on this blog during my time in Russia, which is now approaching a full 4 months. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=851710&amp;post=34&amp;subd=goodbyebabylenin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Petrograd Sky Was Blurred by Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recommended this Blok poem to me recently and last night I translated it into English. Really beautiful. Translation feedback is welcome.   Петроградское небо мутилось дождем&#8230; Петроградское небо мутилось дождем, На войну уходил эшелон. Без конца &#8211; взвод за взводом и штык за штыком Наполнял за вагоном вагон. В этом поезде тысячью жизней цвели Боль [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=851710&amp;post=31&amp;subd=goodbyebabylenin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching English to Russian College Students</title>
		<link>http://goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/teaching-english-to-russian-college-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upthera44</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past month I&#8217;ve compiled a short list of teaching ideas that I will try to implement come September when I start teaching English at Novosibirsk State Technical University. This is what I&#8217;ve come up with so far, but I&#8217;m looking to improve upon, eliminate, and add teaching ideas&#8230; 1. On the first day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=851710&amp;post=29&amp;subd=goodbyebabylenin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give me your hand comrade, friend. Let&#8217;s forget ourselves again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upthera44</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great poem by Aleksandr Blok. I attempted to translate it below, but had some trouble, feedback appreciated. Миры летят. Года летят. Пустая Вселенная глядит в нас мраком глаз. А ты, душа, усталая, глухая, О счастии твердишь, &#8211; который раз? Что&#8217; счастие? Вечерние прохлады В темнеющем саду, в лесной глуши? Иль мрачные, порочные [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=851710&amp;post=27&amp;subd=goodbyebabylenin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian words and phrases</title>
		<link>http://goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/russian-words-and-phrases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upthera44</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of Russian words and phrases I&#8217;ve picked up over the last few months for anyone looking to improve their Russian vocabulary. надменный &#8211; arrogant эгоистичный &#8211; egotistical начальник &#8211; boss спаржа &#8211; asparagus глубокий &#8211; deep чужой &#8211; foreign (other, different) так себе &#8211; so-so сотрудник &#8211; employee коллега &#8211; co-worker [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=851710&amp;post=11&amp;subd=goodbyebabylenin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Limbo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 19:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upthera44</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My time left in America is steadily ticking away. It is May 14, I leave July 30th or 31st. 77 days left. I&#8217;ve got a little over a month left of work in Cincinnati&#8211;I am really looking forward to the end of 2.5 hours of driving a day. At the end of June I&#8217;m going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=851710&amp;post=8&amp;subd=goodbyebabylenin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fulbright and other ways to Russia</title>
		<link>http://goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/fulbright-and-other-ways-to-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upthera44</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russian culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many Russian enthusiasts at some point wish to live in Russia. The question is how. For students at the undergraduate and masters levels, there are several options worth exploring. I have been occupied with the questions of how best to move to Russia and in what program to participate off and on for the past [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbyebabylenin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=851710&amp;post=6&amp;subd=goodbyebabylenin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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