Posted by
Caleb on Sep 14, 2009 in
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My first week ended with an invitation to Ester’s Dacha, a country house <pronounced dah-cha where ‘ch’ sound is like in chair>. These are cottages within train distance of Moscow that the Moscovites own and use when they want to get away from the city/smoke/pollution/asphalt/cement etc. Apparently, the more expensive ones are closer to Moscow, which somehow doesn’t make sense to me as I would think the farther away from the city, the cleaner the air and overall atmosphere, at least that’s what it felt like to me as we traveled there (yes I know if the dacha is closer it takes less time to get there and since it’s closer to Moscow the real estate value might be higher, but still…) So anyway, this weekend I really got to see how beautiful Russia really is. Between rolling hills, small rivers, forests, and the clean country air, it was dachtastic! (a new word composed from the words ‘dacha’ and fantastic, with the definition as ‘as fantastic as being at a dacha’) This word might be used throughout this post so it’s important to know its meaning. Another phrase spontaneously created is ‘dached out’ used to express when ‘one has had too much of a dacha. However, a more general meaning has been proposed to include when one has had too much of something, usually a situation, location, or hang-out spot.’ An example is: After spending the entire month in the country side we were all dached out and ready to return to the bustling city life we had previously left behind. We met Ester at the northeastern side of the city after the afternoon classes at Komsomolskaya station to change from the metro to the train. We took a commuter train to her dacha which is in between Moscow and Tver. It was a comfortable ride that took about...