Прибыте/Arrival

As promised...here is a travel blog about my year in St. Petersburg! To distinguish my posts here from my natterings on Facebook, I'll keep this place more polished and succinct. I'm also working with (extremely low quality) video set to music to give a "Maya's eye view" of my experience.

Here is one I've made about my arduous plane journey/glorious arrival. The song, "Different Names for the Same Thing," by Death Cab For Cutie is one I've long associated in my mind with Petersburg, which has changed its name three times in the last hundred years (same goes for many streets and squares). There is a certain sadness and longing in the song at first, from which rises hope and joy -- I think this encapsulates something of both Russia and myself.