As we wrote in our first blog, one of the big areas of our preparation for moving to Kyrgyzstan is to learn Russian - well, at least making a good start. There are 33 letters in the Russian alphabet, and so the first task was to learn those; for Rosie this has meant a daily Russian lesson on her Ready Brek! To start with we felt quite illiterate when faced with our Russian books, but now feel that we can at least read it - and even if we don't know what it means we can find our way around a Russian dictionary! But it will be a lot of work, time and breakfasts before we are reasonably fluent!
Nevertheless, it will be great to arrive and live in a Russian speaking context - but it will definitely be quite a challenge and will no doubt cause a few raised eyebrows and smirks. Hopefully we will not end up saying anything too rude or offensive by accident...!