About a year ago I already wrote a post about how I settled in here. Here come some updates. Nothing radically new, as it seems at first glance.
Updated local documents, got legal residency, now I have a bit more options - easier, traveling the continent, opening bank accounts and doing all sorts of legal stuff. On the other hand, traveling with my family this summer was failed - local customs do not believe in old birth certificates and minors with anyone are unable to travel in just in case. That is, the child can not leave the country. And nothing can be done about it yet - we make a new birth certificate and wait for delivery. I hope after this little hell will end.
I work now on a mac (here unfortunately without alternatives) - a little suffering getting used to the new keyboard shortcuts and UI. My personal experience is far from the praise of mac-lovers that everything is perfect there. Maybe I'll go to Cyprus again, maybe I'll visit Kazakhstan again.
Got a half-wall TV at home to soak up the language with local news as a family. Got my achieves in duolingo for a year+ of continuous practice, getting a bit of speaking and understanding. Any academically correct understanding of the language is shattered by fluency, slang and other differences, so nothing replaces live communication.
Traveled to the old neighboring town of Colonia del Sacramento, looked at all sorts of things - museums, forts, historical sites. You should check it out too, it's beautiful and peaceful.
Fountainhead propaganda
Ancient part of the fortress and a lighthouse that you can climb up to
This and the next picture are the dimensions of the first city of the fortress here
Here you can see a stone wall that served as a defense against anything above ground
This road right here is 200+ years old. Might still be here someday, but definitely not for 2 days. 3-4 hours would be quite enough time to see almost everything.
But I found my alter ego here.
And on this occasion he closed his eyes.
News from russia are not surprising me anymore, apparently this is the very normalization of insanity. Journalists' opinions and news headlines are certainly not real life, but even the craziest ones are not written from scratch.