The Far-Eastern Russia and the Northern China Hello, my friends! I would like to continue my previous note about my home town, Khabarovsk. It is very far from Moscow, and it takes about 8 hours by plane or 6 days by train to get there. Can you imagine? My town stands on a very beautiful place on the cost of Amur river, and it surrounded by mountains. Amur river is included in TOP-10 of the biggest and longest rivers in the world. It's so wide and sometime visitors of my town decide that it's not a river but a sea. Also there are a lot of rare and valusble salmon species of fish in it, and in autumn there is a season of fishing and red caviar salting. Khabarovsk stands so close to the board with China, and many chinese people live there and do business. We can get to China by ship for 1-2 hours. We don't need visa for short visit to China. Of course I visited in Northern China to go shopping and to eat that tasty and delicious chinese food. I love this cuisine and miss it in Moscow :-( Chinese in my region speak russian very well, but I can't speak chinese unfortunately, it's very hard language for me. When you want to buy something at chinese market they adore to haggle and you can decrease the price to half and less. They will respect you if you're good in haggling :-) So, my dear friends, I've got a lot of stories and if you like it I can write it later. If you would like to be my partner in studying English and Russian, you are welcome! Anastasia

Eastern Russia Hello everybody! My name is Anastasia I'm from Moscow. Before I moved to Moscow, I have been living in Khabarovsk since I was born. This city placed on the east of Russia. Officially we call this region "Far East", because it's even farther than Syberian region. There are very severe winters with low temperatures about minus 30-35 degrees (celssus) in December in January. Winters also very windy and snowy, and sometimes drivers can't start their cars in the morning :-( But (maybe you will be surprised) we have very hot summer with temperatures about plus 30 degrees (celsius) and high humidity of air. It seems like you're in tropical town (of course we don't have palms there:) Easten Russia is very rich with it's nature. There are the huge forest (that called "taiga") with animal and plants you'll never meet in other places of the word. Maybe you know about our Amur tigers and leopards and asiatic black bears. Unfortunately most of them are endangered with extintion. There are lot of things I want to tell you about my home region. Help me to correct my mistakes, please. Also I'm looking for friend to practice English and Russian together. If you like to practice your Russian with me please be my partner! With best regards, Anastasia