A few more days pass like this, my godmother took me shopping, I saw my friends, I had to blatantly lie here that everything was just fine with me. Christmas has come, in America we celebrated it, but in Russia the majority celebrates it on January 7 according to the Julian calendar. This means that you need to call your mother again and congratulate her, and in the end you need to turn on the phone and find out what is happening in my life across the ocean. Mom picks up on the third ring, great.

- Hi Ma, Merry Christmas! How are you? I try to speak as casually...