Ok so Nika told me to blog some things about Belarus so I'd better start. First off well...


I'M GETTING MARRIED

It's scary and it was more we decided to marry than me doing some great things to impress Nika to convince her to be with me. I suppose I've never been traditional but hey!
So I'm now rushing round Belarus doing many things while still trying to teach people English and find a new place to go after this contract finishes. It's a pretty intense world now and I don't things are going to stop spinning for a while but we're so happy together that we're ready to go through the process and we also have fun planning everything together and looking at where to have the venue etc.

Soo what can I say about Belarus well.......it's clearly a socialist country that sort of ignored the Berlin wall falling down and just carried on the same way. Some things have changed but in reality everyone just prefers to carry on living the same way they did before. I'm not sure if I really fit into the place and I think I'm more a unique flair to the classroom and my job than an integrated member of society in Belarus.

I think we're both fed up of the cold now as it never seems to stop and I feel ill today so I've decided to stay off sick and recover before I organise a quiz for my students in one of the few 'Western style' pubs in Minsk. My part of the organisation seems to be to produce a music round with a few different tracks. I'm thinking of adding a few popular (and unpopular) classics instead of delving into my more unique music collection.

What else can I say? This is the start of a big change for me and Nika and we're starting to plan as quickly as possible. It's more a case of quickly finding places and getting everything organised than creating a magical dream day that could be reproduced as a movie in hollywood. If a film was ever made about our lives then I'd intend for the wedding part to be a 10 second clip with maybe some nice picture rather than one of those long drawn out parts of the movie.

Well I'm promising myself I'm going to write more here so I can look back in the future maybe and see how things were going at this time. I'm guessing this is one of the key times in my life.