Saint Petersburg//Strasbourg

西湖 (West Lake) and Mao (at Yuquan Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou)

a group of elderly people playing cards

a goldern orb (it's a v fancy hotel in the business sector of hangzhou)

the opening ceremony for zhejiang university! there was singing and dancing and this rockstar violinist called scherzo who is apparently a huge deal?? and man like three hours of speeches so that was a helluva lot of fun

南华圆 (nan hua yuan garden), zijingang campus, zhejiang university, hangzhou, china

i'm in china! it is so hot that i have sweated my sins away but on the other hand the food is super good and super cheap!

goodbye ssees! thanks for being my home for four years. i'm setting off to china tomorrow!

studying languages and sinning are two of my favourite activities anyway just a quick update: i’m moving to china in september! i got a scholarship for a masters in china studies so i’ll be studying there for a year, it’s in equal parts exciting and terrifying. hope all you followers are doing well, take care of yourselves!

михаил: девушки, что вы думаете?... мальчики, что вы думаете?... али, что вы думаете?

"Послушайте, вы, - сказал Ревкин, - вам надо срочно обратиться к врачу, вы больны, у вас не все дома" "Listen, you," said Revkin, "you should see a doctor immediately, you're a sick man, you're not all there" from The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin ("Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина") by Vladimir Voinovich (Владимир Войнович)  

движуха - a lively party сачок - (literally) net; (slang) truant, lazybones, loafer, skiver сачковать - to skive, play truant хам - brute, lout

пень - stump, stub; blockhead спирать/спереть (сопру/сопрёшь, спёр/ла) - to steal плевать/плюхнуть - to spit; not care (for) - ему плевать на всё, он плюёт на всё - he doesn't give a damn отвратительно - disgusting вон (отсюда)! пошёл вон! - go away! get out (of here)! саднить/за- - to sting, smart чинить, починять/починить - to fix up бездельник - slacker, bum, layabout утончённый - subtle, refined, sophisticated клинок - blade, sword дурачиться/по- - to fool around дёргать/дёрнуть - to pull, tug; to harass, pester (coll.)