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mstislavlHi, Nathalie
thank you for your letters and a e-card.
I had fabulous Christmas Holidays. Buckie's family was very wellcoming and it was interesting to see a real Scottish Ch. - presents under the Ch. Tree, smoked salmon, turkey with boiled vegetables (well, they had potato gratine and now this is my favorite way of cooking popatos) and s a home-made trifle. The family lives in a cottage and one can see sea from the kitchen window.
Vadim did make it to Aberdeen. But he had adventures getting his visa in Paris: 3 hours on the street under rain to get into the Embassy, 3 hours in the Embassy and then he sweared that he is not going to stay in UK after Ch. He had adventures in London: it was the Boxing Day and there were neither trains nor buses to Luton, so in the end some Spanish-speaking students that wanted to get to Luton too stopped a car and went to the airport taking Vadim and a Taiwanese student along. He had adventures on his way back looking for the British Museum for 40 minutes.
We spent a good time in Aberdeen sleeping 12 hours a day, waching DVD on Vadim's notebook and doing nothing. We bought an Indian takeaway and a pineapple for the New Year celebration and I was absolutely happy not cooking anything.
> Oh, btw, will you need an invitation to travel to
> Lux?
thank you, but I'll try to get the French visa. it is valid for all Shengen States and luckily Lux is among them.
> As for myself, I went home to Lux, Mike went home to
> Folkestone. People
> think it's weird that we have never spent X-mas
> together, but I am so used
> to it now. I see him just about every day, so X-mas
> doesn't have that same
> significance to me. It was still nice to get back
> yesterday. Not so nice
> being at work today, but I'll muddle through. At
> least (and I probably
> shouldn't say this) it's rather quiet today.
> Right, better go, there's a lot of e-mails to catch
> up on...
>
> Nats
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Viktoria Doronina
> [mailto:vadoronina@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: 19 December 2002 12:31
> > To: Junker, Nathalie
> > Subject: Re: Have you received your notebook?
> >
> >
> > Hi Nathalie
> >
> > I received your e-mail on Tuesday but decided to
> reply
> > later and on Wednesday morning I received my
> priceless
> > notebook. Thank you again.
> >
> > People are taking it easy in the Institute. There
> was
> > a Institute lunch yesterday so most of my
> colleagues
> > went to it and never come back. The building was
> empty
> > in the morning - they've started arriving after
> 10.
> > Today we are having two seminars (= pointless
> > discussions),they will last 3 hours in total and
> > tomorrow our group has our separate Christmas
> lunch
> > continuing in a pub crawl.
> >
> > I've been invited to spend this Christmas in the
> > family of a PhD student from our group in the
> village
> > called Buckie, which is even further north than
> > Aberdeen.
> >
> > I still don't know whether Vadim is coming because
> he
> > is applying to the visa on Friday. If he doesn't
> come
> > I don't know what to do until 6.01 so your short
> 10
> > days in Luxem. will be 10 endless days in
> Aberdeen.
> >
> > > Is he gonna work on his English while still at
> > > Nancy?
> > believe it or not but he is working on it. he
> watches
> > movies in English with French subtitles. I know
> this
> > is quite useful for studying a language.
> > I think my English is improving as well 'cos new
> > people keep asking me whether I am from Germany
> or
> > Holland and Germans generally have a better
> command of
> > English than Russians... On the other hand, may be
> I
> > am too far North so people there simply never met
> > Russians.
> >
> >
> > How come that I never asked your about the
> language
> > course your are doing?
> >
> > > I was thinking: London is kinda 1/2 way between
> > > VAdim and you, so if you
> > > guys wanna meet up in London, you could always
> stay
> > > at ours.
> > this is so nice of you! thank you! remembering my
> > failure to meet him in your old flat 2 years ago I
> > didn't even try to ask you about it. but who knows
> may
> > be one day...
thank you for your letters and a e-card.
I had fabulous Christmas Holidays. Buckie's family was very wellcoming and it was interesting to see a real Scottish Ch. - presents under the Ch. Tree, smoked salmon, turkey with boiled vegetables (well, they had potato gratine and now this is my favorite way of cooking popatos) and s a home-made trifle. The family lives in a cottage and one can see sea from the kitchen window.
Vadim did make it to Aberdeen. But he had adventures getting his visa in Paris: 3 hours on the street under rain to get into the Embassy, 3 hours in the Embassy and then he sweared that he is not going to stay in UK after Ch. He had adventures in London: it was the Boxing Day and there were neither trains nor buses to Luton, so in the end some Spanish-speaking students that wanted to get to Luton too stopped a car and went to the airport taking Vadim and a Taiwanese student along. He had adventures on his way back looking for the British Museum for 40 minutes.
We spent a good time in Aberdeen sleeping 12 hours a day, waching DVD on Vadim's notebook and doing nothing. We bought an Indian takeaway and a pineapple for the New Year celebration and I was absolutely happy not cooking anything.
> Oh, btw, will you need an invitation to travel to
> Lux?
thank you, but I'll try to get the French visa. it is valid for all Shengen States and luckily Lux is among them.
> As for myself, I went home to Lux, Mike went home to
> Folkestone. People
> think it's weird that we have never spent X-mas
> together, but I am so used
> to it now. I see him just about every day, so X-mas
> doesn't have that same
> significance to me. It was still nice to get back
> yesterday. Not so nice
> being at work today, but I'll muddle through. At
> least (and I probably
> shouldn't say this) it's rather quiet today.
> Right, better go, there's a lot of e-mails to catch
> up on...
>
> Nats
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Viktoria Doronina
> [mailto:vadoronina@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: 19 December 2002 12:31
> > To: Junker, Nathalie
> > Subject: Re: Have you received your notebook?
> >
> >
> > Hi Nathalie
> >
> > I received your e-mail on Tuesday but decided to
> reply
> > later and on Wednesday morning I received my
> priceless
> > notebook. Thank you again.
> >
> > People are taking it easy in the Institute. There
> was
> > a Institute lunch yesterday so most of my
> colleagues
> > went to it and never come back. The building was
> empty
> > in the morning - they've started arriving after
> 10.
> > Today we are having two seminars (= pointless
> > discussions),they will last 3 hours in total and
> > tomorrow our group has our separate Christmas
> lunch
> > continuing in a pub crawl.
> >
> > I've been invited to spend this Christmas in the
> > family of a PhD student from our group in the
> village
> > called Buckie, which is even further north than
> > Aberdeen.
> >
> > I still don't know whether Vadim is coming because
> he
> > is applying to the visa on Friday. If he doesn't
> come
> > I don't know what to do until 6.01 so your short
> 10
> > days in Luxem. will be 10 endless days in
> Aberdeen.
> >
> > > Is he gonna work on his English while still at
> > > Nancy?
> > believe it or not but he is working on it. he
> watches
> > movies in English with French subtitles. I know
> this
> > is quite useful for studying a language.
> > I think my English is improving as well 'cos new
> > people keep asking me whether I am from Germany
> or
> > Holland and Germans generally have a better
> command of
> > English than Russians... On the other hand, may be
> I
> > am too far North so people there simply never met
> > Russians.
> >
> >
> > How come that I never asked your about the
> language
> > course your are doing?
> >
> > > I was thinking: London is kinda 1/2 way between
> > > VAdim and you, so if you
> > > guys wanna meet up in London, you could always
> stay
> > > at ours.
> > this is so nice of you! thank you! remembering my
> > failure to meet him in your old flat 2 years ago I
> > didn't even try to ask you about it. but who knows
> may
> > be one day...
