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Dima on the screen
Sunday, November 6th, 2011 at 7:00 pm by Viktor IvanovichFour years of this blog today. When I started the counter, I did not believe in it; now it shows 6,400 visits (some are mine, I admit).
News from Novosibirsk: Dima passed the first term. He lives in a student dormitory with three boys from Tyumen and Surgut, in a room "the size of our balcony". The food is bad, so Lyudmila sends him a parcel by the train: pickles, dried apricots, the sweater that she knitted. He says the Siberian winter is minus 30 and the people there do not notice it. I told him: dress like a refinery worker, in layers, and put paper under the socks.
We talk on Skype on Sundays. I still shout into the microphone, because I think the voice must travel far.