It’s been almost 6 months I live in Tyumen City. The first
day when I came here, it was October, the temperature was 0oC, and I
was like: “What the heck! Zero degree! Am I living inside the refrigator???".
I really wanted to find a genie and ask him to transform me into a bear so I could
hibernate and sleep during the terrible winter. But then, I realized something,
0oC is not that cold, in January and February the temperature was about
-30oC until -45oC. Yeah, minus, I ain’t kidding. It’s
just like a greeting from Russia, “Welcome to Siberia!”.
Spring finally came in March. In the end of February, we did
a Russian folk tradition, we was burn a beautiful doll called “Maslenitsa”. We
sang, we danced, we prayed, and we ate traditional foods. Russian do this
tradition as the farewell for Winter and the welcome greeting for Spring. Yeah,
finally, Spring!
After that time, I really hope that our “ritual” will work,
and the snow will stop haunting us. But no, our relationship with snow has not
finished yet. In the end of March and early April, they came again. They even
came with the larger number of armies! The streets and trees became snowy
again. I hate this, because in the next days, it would be muddy, muddy, and
muddy everywhere! My friend once said to me that in Russia, winter will be 9
months, and the 3 months will be summer. I believe it now.