A couple of Russian woman in my neighborhood, Tatiana and Alysia, have taken to walking the streets at night. This mother-daughter duo invited me to come along last month. Now, this is NOT what you think. I am referring to their exercise program, which I affectionately call Russki Boot Camp. They walk 10, 000 steps every day and I joined them. Many times I walk with only Tatiana, the matriarch of the two.
Now that the holidays are behind us, we are committed to sticking with the program. This takes up a good 1.5 hours a day and is a partly responsible for me taking a break from reviewing audio books and engaging in ‘social networking’.
One of the benefits is that I am now learning Russian and as you can tell from my first words, our conversations run the gamut of food, relationships, and politics. My first vocabulary words are as follows:
bystryee – faster
zavtra – tomorrow
dieta – diet
yeda – food
politika – politics
Ded – grandfather
YA tebya lyublyu – I love you
If you are following my MBA program, you can see how I am finding creative ways to get educated! However, I have continued to listen to books and I am committed to reviewing some of my recent ‘listens’ in the coming weeks: Three Cups of Tea, A Whole New Mind, Outliers, Younger Next Year, an The Knack.
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