Aw man I just wrote a long post and the Internet went out.

Basically, what I like about this place is: fresh goat's milk every day (I milked Korotka the goat twice already), fresh eggs from our chickens, fresh vegetables, fresh honey, really really healthy food all the time. Everything smells amazing, like hay and flowers. I get up around 8am, go to sleep around 10pm. Everyone I meet is friendly and interesting. Everyone here sings, and most people have some kind of art they are really good at. Painting or sculpting, etc. The people are youthful and glowing with health.

I met a bunch of young people randomly when I was hanging around the playground.

Professor Tittler, you HAVE to move here. You would fit in perfectly with the people here, they remind me of you. A friend, Julia, gave me gooseberries and I thought of you.

I visited the ancient city of Pereslavl'-Zalessky where Alexander Nevsky was born.

On Monday I am going to go to the children's camp nearby because they are only allowed to speak English that day so I am going to help.

I have met 2 people in this teeny tiny village of friends who speak English, and sometimes it's hard when I don't understand what people are saying in Russian, but most of the time it is easy to have interesting conversations with everyone. I had one choir rehearsal. We are singing a lot of folk songs in the choir, very exciting!

I still don't know how to post pictures. Peter, I met Vova. Didn't get to hang out much yet but I'm sure we will!