I am …

… curious about the U.S. election results!

… awaiting them desperately!

… commenting again!

For the last 30 minutes I have been wondering who would be the new president of the U.S.

either

… the attractive young man with the black skin, the nice smile and the nice wife, who is seamingly the better choice for America, at least from the Austrian point of view

or

… the elderly man with the wrinkly and scarved skin, the pretended smile and the wife with the dyed sheer-blonde hair, who is seamingly the better choice for America, at least from some Russians point of view.

This was just about appearance, stereotypes and fun. It’s not really fair to judge people by these things but isn’t it actually how THEY (the politicians) really want us to judge THEM. Aren’t they just acting all the time, because they want people to vote for them. I think yes! And I know, I am totally speaking AGAINGST my own business now. I think this hokeyness is the reason for so many people being sick of politics. I don’t think, no actually I know, that people are rumbling their acting.

But who really cares about my opinion? Is there actually any point in talking about it now? Time will bring the answer, I think, no actually I know.

(carina)

Running to Observe the Crises

few words in advance: I know that this following blog entry isnt’t at all perfect – especially not in a journalistic way. Still I want to post it. Take it as a motiviation to comment and to talk about the observations about the “financial crises” in your surroundings. I think it is a great opportunity since people from (many) different nationalities are reading this blog. It would be really interesting (for me) to hear/read about it!

Construction site in St. Petersburg's city centre, seen from top of Saint Isaac's Cathedral.

A few days ago I watched a newscast on ORF (on-demand) about the financial crises and how it hit(s) Russia. The next day I was jogging in my neighbourhood and since the Austrian newscast talked about “Russian construction sites having a break lately because of the financial crises”, I was really amazed that the construction sites in my neighbourhood were still lively. The following day, I passed this place again and workers were even working at night (or at least when it was already dark). Another day I was doing a little bit of sightseeing in the city center and see there, on top of the Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, you could see a lot of construction sites, where people were still working.

Another thing mentioned in the newscast: Some shops in Moskow were offering fewer products and some products were even already sold out. To be honest, I haven’t really noticed that in St. Petersburg yet (actually not even yet, about two weeks after the mentioned newscast).

People’s feeling
People I talked to about the crises don’t feel any impact on their daily life yet but they think that they will feel an impact in the upcoming months.

In one of our lectures called Russian Political System we also talked about the crisis and its impact on Russians. Our professor said that “normal” people hadn’t yet realized the consequences. But when he had been to Moskow about two weeks ago, he had had the feeling that “nice restaurants” hadn’t anymore been as crambed as they had used to be about two months ago. He said that this was already a sign that wealther people had already started changing their consumer behaviour.

(carina)

Waiting for …

… better times!

No not really, just for the first results of U.S. elections.

You wouldn’t think that it is that hard to wait some more 30 minutes for some stupid results of some stupid elections. Some information that we get from the www. Some information that we rely on, even though it is transmitted electronically – maybe we even rely on it more because of the FACT that it was spread electronically and NOT personally.

Alright … I will keep posting now till I hear some first results. Write to you soon … (carina)

P.S. I nearly forgot to tell: That’s the first time I think the time difference is stupid because in Austria it’s still two hours earlier.