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2008-10-15T05:00:00.000-07:00

A picture from August. It takes too long to upload pictures... they must be too big to do so...

2008-09-25T17:38:00.000-07:00

This was few weeks ago. One fine day berry-picking day.

2008-09-17T21:28:00.000-07:00

I've just edited my blog. It's nice to have a blog... Today is the 18th of September, 2008. What am I doing now? These days I'm job hunting mainly... I am thinking about China and I think I'm not really there in mind and that's why I'm still home, in Yakutsk, in Russia... Probably I am not ready to go there again. China, China, China, China...

my little dragon :)

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2007-09-09T20:09:00.000-07:00

Today is the 10th of September, 2007. Monday. I went to apply for visa to China. These days I've been thinking and thinking and thinking mostly about what is out there - tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, next week, next month... Yesterday there was a short film about Yakutsk. They showed Yakutsk in winter and I thought that winter in Yakutsk is something I hate to expereince. I really hope that I leave Yakutsk for good.
Right now I'm going to post pictures from my trip again. Just to finish the story. :)

September 2007

2007-09-09T19:46:00.000-07:00

leasure time :)

2007-07-10T01:11:00.000-07:00

Look at these radiant faces! I must tell you the water is very cold... brrr... :)

what did we do every day?

2007-07-10T00:42:00.000-07:00

so, what did we do every day? here are some pictures for you:)
they are very industrious, aren't they? :)

2007-07-04T07:59:00.000-07:00

process of learning: Dima and Masha diligently memorisig a quotation. I wonder if they could remember the quotations now a year later... hope so...

2007-07-04T07:49:00.000-07:00

Here is Vitalka happily leaving a village where I stayed for the rest of the month with his uncle, aunt and 3 kids.

and here they are, I mean 3 kids, Masha, Vlasik and Dima (you see them with a little flying squirrel) and the next day we started our classes with a book... I think it was "Breezes of confirmation" ... or... don't remember well... anyways I was surprised on how fast they could memorise quotations!

Vlasik and his farther Aleksey with Shram. That was the day when Shram was sold to others and Vlasik and Aleksey took the last picture.

I'm back to life :)

2007-07-04T07:37:00.000-07:00

Hope to finish my last year story (sigh) its nice to be back and I'm positive :)
So, I left the camp on a rainy day, got soaked and I was sad cause I couldn't continue a real nomadic life (though you saw me smilling in a previous pic).

2007-01-02T04:56:00.000-08:00

... and here I am... leaving the camp... the day was rainy... it's July, the... don't remember the exact date... I was escorted by two reindeer and Vitalka, who was asking me to mount a reindeer, but I coudn't... cause earlier I fall from one... twice... and hurt my neck... anyways, next time I'll do better. :)

some more pics

2007-01-02T04:46:00.000-08:00

Life at the reindeer camp.

2006-10-22T23:11:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since my last post and since I'm home all the time while recovering from cold I decided to get back to my story. So here we go: Life at the reindeer camp. A usual day in our small reindeer camp would start by awakening... in a cold tent and putting all available clothes on. Somebody would heat up the oven, believe me it's not an easy thing to do, and because we had to be very careful in using matches (the nearest shop was couple of thousands km away from us) , I was the last person whom they would ask to make fire - hahaha, - once I used the whole box with matches up and couldn't make fire... Again I'm putting up some pics from that life:

These children are amazing! Please meet Sergey Pogodaev (13). Every summer he spends with his uncles helping them in their work with reindeer. He just loves it.

In this pic you see Vitaliy (14). Getting ready to catch a reindeer for riding.He looks awsome here and he catches one very quickly.
Here you see me Maxim and Diana (11). She is amazing! I can't help of prasing her because she is amazing! Let me tell you she is the one who takes care of her two cousens and her uncle: she cooks basically everything, she makes bread, she helps with herding when it is needed and she finds time to play in the forest with little ones... and she is only 11!!! A-MA-ZING!!!

2006-09-25T04:48:00.000-07:00

soon after the counting (it was midnight) we were on our way to the camp... since I never rode a reindeer in my life I had to walk there, it was 5 km away from Eyume and it took us 2 hours... when I came there I saw 3 tents, a new looking one was for us.

a view from inside

2006-09-25T04:37:00.000-07:00

This is the first time in my entire life when I saw reindeer with my own eyes! and a little Bamby was there too. :)

This is the way they count reindeer, it was not easy I should say...

2006-09-25T04:11:00.000-07:00

These are the children who helped me understand the importance of children and junior youth classes. I have never met such children in my life and I miss them a lot now when I'm so far from them. Hope that they remember the quotations and prayers we memorised together... :)
Please meet Dima (11), Maxim (6) and Masha (8).
Here you see Vlasik(10), Dima, Maxim, Kirill (10), Masha and Edik (8).

Here you see the traditional way of introducing newcomers to the place: each one of us brought a small piece of cloth that was tied to the main cloth and the whole thing was tied to the tree.

2006-09-14T06:11:00.000-07:00

This is a very small village called Eyume, there are not more then 5 houses and it serves as a base for several reindeer herders' camps. In these houses they keep their food and other stuff.
We arrived on the 24th of Julyand on the 25th it snowed and you can see snow covered mountains in the background. It was cold!!! Brrrrrr!!!
The pic was taken on the third day after our arrival (I couldn't do anything at least for 3 days after 10 hours horse-riding...) :)

2006-09-14T05:24:00.000-07:00

We are on our way again.

A mother and a child.

On our way we had a short stop over at another reindeer herders' camp. Here you see people who lived all their lives in taiga and tundra. The woman is making a cradle for a baby. By the way, it was raining but they remained outside next to the fire. In the background you see a tent - a common living facility in taiga and tundra.

2006-09-14T05:07:00.000-07:00

Kiril and Maxim are very happy... they don't know how many hours does it take to get to the camp...

but they made it!

These horses were waiting for us to take us to the camp.

Good bye Road and thank you...

2006-09-13T07:06:00.000-07:00

...and here is what was ahead of us... chains of montains and snow-white clouds on a blue sky... the wheather was just fine! :)

my road to the reindeer herders camp

2006-09-13T06:24:00.000-07:00

Actually, I was not the only traveller. There were 5 of us: me, Lena and her two sons and their friend. Here is a pic of our team, I'm not there cause I was taking it. First of all we had to cross Lena river, in the pics u c a boat that took us across the river.

my trip to the reindeer herders camp

2006-09-12T06:55:00.000-07:00

this is a pic from my recent trip to the reindeer herders camp. Almost everything was for the first time in my life. So, riding a horse was for the first time in my life... and horseriding for 10 hours (!!!) was for the first time in my life...

StarTing...

2006-09-12T06:44:00.000-07:00

here i am, just to get it done cause there was an idea to create one for all my friends out there.
So, i'm in Yakutsk which is a capital city of the Sakha Republic (North Far East of Russia) and will be staying here for one year at least. If anyone would like to come and visit Yakutsk, you are welcome! :)

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