Kazan — summer 2014

Exhaustion. The next days will be non-stop. Part of my responsibilities is conducting interviews to estimate oral proficiency skills (non-official), and it looks like I'll have to do that via Skype for our 15 students in Batumi as well. That will be tuckering.

And, dammit, I've been asked to do a TV interview, so tomorrow I'll write up my thoughts and try to practice them in advance so I don't come off like a total idiot.

Saturday I head home. They'll pick me up from my apartment at 12:30 a.m. Saturday. The plane will depart at 3:40 a.m. I'll arrive in Phoenix at 8:30 p.m., and probably spending the night at my mother's place, say around 9:30 p.m. So, from leaving my apartment in Kazan to arriving at a place with a bed in Phoenix will be twenty-one hours by the clock and then eleven hours of time difference, so thirty-two hours of traveling. Whew.