Someday,Somehow, Somwhere between Winter and Autmn in Siberia

 

Love+ Lada+Birch...Russia

 

 

Russia after one Month

Song zum Text
Pictures out of Tomsk, special the beloved wooden houses

Here were 2 Week break. 2 Weeks in which I runes to university and made always the same ways...at home reading something, working something or just be lost in the internet. To be bored by himself can be anyway helpful, its the emotion which can push you in the end forward. I can remember that it was same in Estonia, so restart SIBERIA.

Do I have already a deeper look into the country? Hard to say, still what I hear in the Homemedia about Russia is scares me and I try to compare with my reality here. Putinism is in fact a real existing lost Soviet-republic with the Tradition of orthodox church and Russian Empire. Bringing together these contrasts together makes me some headache I have to say.
You can feel it when you go to post, to public administration, train stations or when you want to pay your rent and you have to go to 3 different persons until you can give your money away. Everything run very slow, hierarchic and with a lot of staff.
On the other hand the stories of empty shops are not true, but true is that is comparing with wages in Russia and prices in Germany its fucking expansive.
What is interesting too is that nobody of the professors I met was defending the Government, maybe thats the Reason why they teach in Siberia and not in St.Petersburg and Moskva :-). More I hear critic on system, connected with a "but thats Russia" and the fear what comes after Putin? Nobody knows, so People stay silent, thats my first impression. But wasent the powerlessness often the beginning of Uprises?

The other big Move is that September is gone and with the September the last late Sommer and Autumn Days yesterday everything is snow covered and it give me a peaceful feeling, like it would cover my worries and invite me to break out of my integrationphase into a Discoveringperiode.

In the Blog Part 3

I already wrote two posts in Estonia and in Poland to my Life in the Panelhouse....So also these time pictures about how I live here in Tomsk...Really nice is the view out of the window, it shows the beautiful River, a lot of trees, some smaller houses, some out of wood and these big flatbuilding, its very wide view on some days.
link Estonia flat
Link Poland Flat

Also here some first picture how it looks around me:)

River Tom

Lada, Birches+ wooden House, more than a sterotype

The Last point for today... should like in the blogs before the picture of me in through the stations abroad, so beginning of Estonia, beginning of  Poland and now the Beginning of Siberia...

SIBERIA

St.Petersburg

St.Petersburg

Its one year ago that I started with these Blog and it need it all this time till it made since to wrote again.

First Post described a inner struggle which brings me in different way forward, forward into the east…

And now in September 2014 after living in Poland and Estonia I’m in Siberia.

How more far East can you go?

Between these Post is one year of study Master in Chemnitz. It was a interesting year. In the beginning I had nothing, was unsure about my future, so I was hiking the summer and thought about steps in the past and future steps .

Then Chemnitz: Studies were really amazing for me, I had a lot of interesting Lectures and met interesting people. I lived first in a Hostel, which was still in a socialistic 1975 style. I dont know why, but when I look back I really liked to live their, it was living like in a Museum :-)

I was focused on studies and traveling in Saxonia and happy with that. The 2nd Semester changed a lot, I changed in the Student-Dormitory, get Part of the Buddy-Program for ERASMUS Students and cared about two estonian Girls. One of these Girls became soon my Girlfriend and so the focus in Life changed in these Semester a lot.

So these time was the first time that I was going abroad, but I had a unclear feeling about and not the need to change something in Life. And thanks to Ukraine-crise I had absolute fears to go in a authorian State which have a  (how to call it???) offensive Minority Protection, which we used in Germany in the 30s too ;). We know where it can end.

St.Petersburg and me

typical Tomsk

So but now about my Stay… Yes anyway I was going and I was starting pretty interesting going by Bus to Saint Petersburg, stay there with my Girlfriend two day and then flying to Novosibirsk and then with Bus to Tomsk, my Place of Study for the next Months. It was very impressive, Saint Petersburg is still baltic  and fits in a collection of Capitals like Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, its european and its very touristic too. I had a first impression of uniforms everywhere and state which is still so big like to socialistic times. For example sits a woman on the endless long electric Stairs in Metro the whole day in a little box and watch, everywhere is security and in Petersburg I have seen a lot of soldiers, but it seems more their were their for fun or representative duties. Nevertheless Petersburg is really beautiful, with many Rivers and beautiful Architecture and its very heterogene too. I was with Maria in a orthodox church, but also in german protestant, roman-catholic, roman-orthodox and even a Synagogue and a estonian Church we found. Specially Synagogue was very bright and beautiful. But of course it was then also a time of Goodbye and a start in new.

So I stepped into a plane at 9 in the evening and after 3 hours time change and 4 hours fly I’m in Siberia. Novosibirsk was a clear contrast of what I have seen in Petersburg. I stepped out and it was noisy and dirty, I had 30 Kilos on my back but I havent find any

Marshrutka to Tomsk

one of few highlights in Novosibirsk

Locker. Soon I find the Busstop but it was just the Stop for city buses. So I went back to the centre and sit in cafe searched for the right place to go in internet again. The City seemed to be 95 % in socialistic style+ a crazy traffic, with a lot of trucks and old ladas. In these moment I expected the worst for my stay. i saw that it dont made sence to wait and running arround, so I were just going to the Busstop and was surrender to the next marshrutka, so a small bus with mysterous persons inside. I was quite unsure if I will ever reach Tomsk, because I was waiting one Hour before the Bus was full and it was starting...5 Hours jumping on siberian Streets I was in Tomsk(its no fun if you have to go to Toilet!! :-P). It was unbelievable contrast between the Town and the Nature….Birches everywhere and lakes, Beauty everywhere, just few Villages with wooden style houses, but behind these big black socialistic hole. Tomsk in the End was a positive surprise. Its a nice combination of a big wild river in the middle, a lot of trees and the Buildings are mixed, but they have a lot of wooden houses in different  styles. The size is not to big , not to small how I like it before also in Bremen, Tallinn,Wroclaw, Chemnitz, all quite same size…
About Tomsk more in the next Posts.

Link wiki Synagogue Petersburg

step1 Go East

The wind is blowing, its cold and wet. In front of me are trees. birch, white Trees, they are standing in two lines, right and left from the street. I go on this street, see the long street and see the long way I gone through the the last years. This kind of trees, mixed with the cold whether and the warming memories....oh its so home, its so east.
And yes I´m home, its my old german hometown, its the way to the castle of my hometown, a way gone very often. Its like to meet your own past, like a old friend and the old friend, a little boy, is asking you: "What have you done in the last year since you have been here?"
 Oh I was in poland you know, I worked with kids, I find a lot of friends, we had a lot of fun...I learned a lot about other cultures and
 I met a Girl, but she...
 The little boy was listing but now he see that I became silent. "What happen, what have you done?"
 I ansewer : She is gone.
The little boy looks to me and I cant answer, he dosent understand and I probably also dont understand.
The streets came to a end I see a old man going through the autum, totally alone...may be he have also a meeting with the past. The forest which is now in front of me is so colourful and full of life, but the sky is grey and angry, autum is a time of contrasts. The fight in nature is coming to our hearts and souls and become our fights, but every dieing is the beginning of renewing. The little boy begins to run...he screams "dont think so much, catch me if you can." I look to the right and look to the left... Nobody is here..so I run, I follow to a hill, finally catch him and see where I´m now. In front of me the boy is playing with my grandparents, playing in the wind, playing in the autum, in the leaves. Grandfather says "The Wind is going to east follow boy" The boy try to controll the kite in the wind, after a while he just lay down in the grass and see in the sky, dreams away, Grandfather controlls the kite now...I look to him and think:" I dont wonder about anything when I see this boy..."I go forward until the top of the hill beautiful proud trees on the right side, but then a gap, somebody cut my childhood, a street in the middle of a hill, a street in the middle of my childhood. How I can come back to the other side. I cant jump so far and I cant fly, so I stand their and wonder. Just the words of of Grandfather in the ears "The wind goes to east, follow!"