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Ira

After more than a few “Who’s Ira/Hanna/Sharma/etc.?” e-mails, that I think it’s time to make some weblog postings. :) Therefore, this will be the first in a multi-part series dedicated to each of my Russian buddies.

Ira “ee-rah”, short for Irina “ee-reena”, was one of the first people I met here in Saint-Petersburg. She works as a waitress at my favorite restauraunt, Patio Pizza. We hang out all the time and practice my Russian and her English, although, I more than happy to speak only English. She studies English at her University here and is really really good.

I spend a few days every week or two at her grandmother’s house in the country. The design and feel of this “dahcha” (country house) is very similar to my family’s cabin in Wyoming, including the trademark of all Russian dacha’s, the toilet is hole in the ground a few meters away from the house.

I am going to attach a few pictures here too:

1) A series of goofy pictures of Ira at one of our favorite coffee spots, the “Eedalnaya Chashka” (The Ideal Coffee Cup)

2) Ira in front of the Dacha

3) A wider view of the Dacha (that’s Ira’s brother Kiril (Keereel) watering the garden)