... of russia, of rocking out and of shopping without the money

It's been a day of more stress - who knew trying to arrange a language course over the summer would be so DIFFICULT? Essentially, I'm going to St Petersburg through my university but have had about as much information as you would get out of a brick. Now I have three weeks to the day until I leave, and as yet, no visa, no flights, no accommodation and still very little idea of what I'm doing there. Oh boy.

Music festival (Rockness) coming up next weekend... and I really want to go shopping. Extreme shopping.

In other news, where's the good weather gone? We were in a heatwave last week, now it's back to typical Scotland. Well. It can only get better now, I guess. Although I've probably jinxed it now!

Hi / czesc / привет / salut

It's always the first post that's the hardest, isn't it?

Well, here's to introductions. I'm Masha. I'm 19 and I'm Scottish when asked, British by citizenship.

There's nothing that makes my day more than some chilling out in the park with my friends, preferably with a coffee in one hand, a cigarette in the other; followed by an evening with my boyfriend. I’m the kind of girl who loves random graffiti, mesmerising screensavers, squirrels, dancing around my room toute seule, randomly changing language mid sentence, toffee nut lattés … and ski-ing. But not that kind.

I can’t type the word ‘September’, I would rather sleep for an extra half hour than have a hot shower and I almost ALWAYS have a camera on me.

So bienvenue to my blog. Goodness knows what will go here - but enjoy.