After last year's relatively mild winter (if you can ever consider winter in Russia mild...), this year, winter is back with a vengeance! Cold wind and moody skies have persisted for days, and suddenly... Snow!

You know, there was a time when I used to enjoy the sight of snow.

Not anymore!

Here are some pictures taken around our hostel.





Poor little man foraging through the dumpster looking for anything useful...



And now I've got a big problem. Now that winter is here, my window's going to freeze up. And due to the confined space in my room, the only place left to place my television is by the window sill. Yet winter means the whole winter sill area will be... close to 0 degrees? Probably negative sometimes. And of course the television will spoil. Gotta find a new place to put my television now. Sigh!