A Welcome Greeting From Siberia

It was 26 October 2016, the first day when I came to Russia (Tyumen city exactly), the temperature was 0^oC, and I was like: “What the hell! Zero degree! Am I living inside the refrigerator???". I really wanted to find a genie and ask him to transform me into a bear so I could hibernate and sleep during the terrible winter. But then, I realized something, 0^oC is not that cold, in January and February the temperature was about -30^oC until -45^oC. Yeah, minus, I ain’t kidding. It’s just like a greeting from Russia, “Welcome to Siberia!”.

water in the pipe turn into ice

Spring finally almost came in March. In the end of February, we did a Russian folk tradition, we was burned a beautiful doll called “Maslenitsa”. We sang, we danced, we prayed, and we ate traditional foods. Russian do this tradition as the farewell for Winter and the welcome greeting for Spring. Yeah, finally, Spring!

oooh what poor burnt maslenitsa doll

After that time, I really hope that our “ritual” will work, and the snow will stop haunting us. But no, our relationship with snow has not finished yet. In the end of March and early April, they came again. They even came with the larger number of armies! The streets and trees became snowy again. I hate this, because in the next days, it would be muddy, muddy, and muddy everywhere! My friend once said to me that in Russia, winter will be 9 months, and the 3 months will be summer. I believe it now.

For me, who was born and raised in the country which crossed by the equator line, the weather here is quite turtorous. Several places in my country may have a very cold weather, but it just in the mountainous areas, and of course it will never touch minus degrees. In the city the weather will be like 28^oC until 36^oC. And again, my friend told me that in the summer, the temperature will reach 40^oC. Thanks!

Of course not everything in winter is bad. I like some winter things, such as ice skating, skiis (even though I am not good enough for this), live without mosquito (yeah its freaking great!), and sometimes I like to look how the snow fall from the sky. Maybe I felt really cold just because it’s my first winter.

And the thing I really hate from winter is….. I NEED TO WEAR A LOT AND MULTILAYERS CLOTHES TO FEEL WARM. I guess that I will gain weight about 3 kg everytime i wear my winter suit. Don’t believe it? Just try to watch this video:

By the way, now I am living in Tomsk city. another city in Siberia. This city isn't bigger than Tyumen. Overall the circumstances in Tomsk and Tyumen are very different. But there is a similarity between them, THE COLDNESS!