Spring has finally sprung here, birds are chirping, grass is growing and, despite our Russian teacher's prophesies that there will be snow soon, it looks like summer's on its way. With it comes the end of term and a 3000 word essay in Russian that is the biggest thing we have had to do all year and is just hanging over our heads. At the moment I am firmly in denial (not just a river in Egypt!) and plan on staying here, the food is good!

I've just signed a contract with Ernst and Young for the summer, as of the 19th of June I will be an intern in their tax department, human capital section. It kind of sounds like slave trading but I don't think it is. In my contract it specifies that business trips are an integral part of my job, I hope they send me to Siberia!

I'm going to be inheriting a goldfish soon from my friend Alesia who is abandoning me and going back to New York. She never actually named the poor thing so I have to christen it soon. Suggestions for names are welcome, leave them as a comment. I'll have a pic of him soon, he wasn't in a posing mood the other day, he was having a fat day.