By Peter, on September 20th, 2006
This morning on the way out the door to school Richard picked a rose from the vase near the front door and proudly said that he will take it to school (it is pretty normal to take flowers to shcool for various occassions although today wasnt one of them).
With this Babuliya asked ‘will you give it to Katiya?’ [the girl that sits next to him in class]. Without saying a word Richard shoved the rose back in the vase with fantastic negative emotion and left the apartment. Actions speak a thousand words!
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By Peter, on September 15th, 2006
Apart from the story below being grizly in itself the picture that went with it just makes the reality all the more apparent. I don’t think you would see such an image in the Australian media but here in Russia it is common place.
By Valeria Korchagina and Maria Levitov
Staff Writers
Mikhail Fomichyov / Itar-Tass
Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov leading Cabinet ministers in a moment of
silence for Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov on
Thursday.
Andrei Kozlov, who had spearheaded the campaign against fraudulent banks
and money laundering as the No. 2 official at the Central Bank, died of
gunshot wounds early Thursday.
Kozlov, 41, the bank’s first deputy head, and his driver, Alexander
Semyonov, 54, were shot by two gunmen with automatic pistols Wednesday
evening as Kozlov was exiting the Spartak sports complex.
Kozlov had been at the Continue reading Central Banker Andrei Kozlov Shot Dead
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By Peter, on September 11th, 2006
Well it has started early. As Richard’s milk teeth have been dropping they have been replaced by not only game boy games from the tooth fairy but also crooked shiny new big teeth. On a recent visit to the dentist we were advised to start using an appliance called a T4k Trainer.
As advised we started out slowly for an hour a day and stayed that way! While it is in he can’t talk so while he is doing homework is a great time. The other good time is before bed while being read to. Tonight we all thought that it was the first time he had actually fallen asleep with it in (as he is supposed to do when it gets comfortable) but alas we were wrong. He had actually managed to sneak downstairs from his top level bunk and put the trainer back in it’s box!
Kid wins again.
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By Peter, on September 11th, 2006
I found this very interesing excercise book the other day when shopping for Richards new school books. Amongst the covers of racing cars and nice garden settings I found a new fad in animal covers. One part of the animal is made from material that feels like the animal. There were rabit ones that felt like rabbits, cats like cats, dogs like dogs ect, and then this one. . .
Now we wonder why kids today have bad attitudes?
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