Well February sure did go by fast. For the past two weeks it has been snowing all the time. It never amounted to anything huge, but I would say that there is about half a foot of snow on the ground now. Because of the snow, road conditions have been poorer than usual. As I told you before, Chernivtsi seems to use the time method of snow removal. This means that they just wait until the snow goes away on its own. Last week on my way to cross the street to get on the bus, I was almost hit by a car. It was no fault of my own, I hadn't even started to cross the street yet. Out of nowhere this car comes at me. It is literally spinning out of control and stopped spinning about a foot from where I was standing. I didn't see my whole life flash before my eyes, so I guess it wasn't really a near death experience.
Anyway, my classes are going well. I have Russian language, Russian history, and Ukrainian Government. You may think that that sounds boring, but I like all of them. I have a second teacher for Russian this semester, and she has been really good so far. She has me doing Russian tongue twisters, which she seems to find hilarious. I can't remember if I've ever talked about Russian. I'll do that now. I think that I can sum it up with one word; hard. That's really all that needs to be said about it. It is really hard and frustrating, but at the same time very rewarding to study. We move so fast through the language that I can never seem to get my mind wrapped around what it is that I just learned. As soon as I think that I have a grip on the language, 10 more things are added that make it harder than ever before. You see in English we have a strict word order, but in Russian they use the case system. This means that sentences can appear in any order, because the endings of words will tell you where they correspond in the sentence. It's really hard to explain in text so I'm just going to stop. All that you really need to know is that Russian has 33 letters, six different case endings, and most people, even native speakers, will consider you crazy for trying to learn it.
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