Welcome Back to a New Semester!

Привет Русский Клуб! (Hello Russian Club!)

How are you? I hope everyone had a relaxing winter break and has acclimitized to the new semester well!
Our first meeting of the semester is February 8th at 11:30 at the Inner Bean Coffee Shop; I hope to see you all there! If we haven't yet met - just look for the girl with short blonde hair reading a russian newspaper...it's likely I'll be the only one LOL

Attached you will find a flyer with some info on it for our next meeting ~ feel free to post it on facebook or forward to friends who might be interested :)

For your convenience, our meeting times for the entire semester are as follows: (alternating Thurs/Fri for best accessibility by all - this way you can come to a meeting a week, or at least every other week as fits with your schedule.)

Feb 8, 11:30am
Feb 14, 5:30pm
Feb 22, 11:30am
Feb 28, 5:30pm
Mar 8, 11:30am
Mar 14, 5:30pm
Mar 22, 11:30am
Mar 28, 5:30pm
Apr 5, 11:30am
Apr 11, 5:30pm
Apr 19, 11:30am
Apr 25, 5:30pm
May 3, 11:30am

I hope to see you all on the 8th! Topics will be: Community Service, Movie night, the International Food Festival, and Club elections!

Poems! (поэмя или стихотворения)

Hello Russian Club!

I know it has been a hectic time for all, myself certainly not excluded; we've decided to meet tomorrow at 2:15pm at Java Cat. Come join us if you can! We'll do some planning and some conversational practice.

In the mean time, I believe I owe you all some poems!

Tonight - Alexander Blok, a great and reknowned poet.

Turning Red, Temple Stairs are Fading.

Translated from Russian by Alec Vagapov

Turning red, temple  stairs  are fading. Did you tell me you"d keep  the date? At the entrance to eventide  praying I have opened my heart.  I will wait.   I don"t know my intent and desire. I may die of relief and delight. All aflame in the evening fire, I will bring you to flaring light.   Scarlet  flame engulfs the environs Dreams  have come, unexpectedly, true  You are coming. There"s  infinite  highness Over me, and the temple, and you.   December 25th, 1902 And in the original Russian: Покраснели и гаснут ступени. Ты сказала сама: "Приду". У входа в сумрак молений Я открыл мое сердце. - Жду-   Что скажу я тебе - не знаю. Может быть, от счастья умру. Но, огнем вечерним сгорая, Привлеку и тебя к костру.   Расцветает красное пламя. Неожиданно сны сбылись. Ты идешь. Над храмом, над нами - Беззакатная глубь и высь.   25 декабря 1902    Read more of his works here!

Yearbook Photo

Привет Русский Клуб!

Come join us for a yearbook photo and be a part of the FIRST EVER Russian Club yearbook presence! Our club is just really getting underway now and we have grand plans for our future!

Even if you've never been to a meeting yet, but are interested in taking part in our movie night next semester or helping us in our community service efforts to send clothes and art supplies to orphanages in Russia, or simply want to come join us for conversational practice - don't be shy!

Come to our meeting today at 7pm at the Inner Bean! We'll practice some basic conversation and then go get our photo taken at 7:30 in the memorial union's preston family room!

See you then, or, Увидимся!

Hello All,
I'm not feeling well and will not be at the meeting tonight, however please do not let that stop you from meeting!

A few notes: 1) on the 13th of Nov I'll read the poem "Russian -American Romance" at the International Education Festival. 2) Shirts will be done soon, if you brought one tonight, just bring it by the Center for Student Involvement - say it's for me, and someone at the front desk will put it on my desk and I'll get the emblem on it or we can all schedule a time to do our shirts together :) 3) As to the movie night, may I suggest Russian Arc? Talk about what you'd like and just get back to me whenever!

I posted up some Russian language things a few posts back, that's your homework to practice and study tonight. Sorry to miss two weeks in a row, but am really not feeling well tonight.

Have a great meeting! I look forward to hearing from you all on thoughts about movie, shirts, and your vision for the club!

Clara

No meeting tonight due to Halloween! Everything Stephanie talked about we'll be doing next week! Sorry for the late notice; Happy Halloween!!

Сегодня вечером в российском Клубе

A brief synopsis on our Russian club meeting :

     -  International Culture Show - Tuesday November 13 our amazing Russian club president will read a poem in Russian and English.

     -  Our Russian club t-shirts will look AMAZING! See previous post for the design.  Bring your shirt with you next week.  Light colours work best.

     -  Next week we will work on a display board to get word out about Russian club.  

     -  We will also be picking a date for the bake sale and movie night.  Please come with a couple choices of movies you would like to see from previous posts.

     -  Later on this week, there will be a post of other Russian words that we will practice together next week.

Looking forward to seeing you there!
Stephanie

PS - I have probably embarrassed myself with trying to translate the title, but that is why I still claim to be a student of the Russian language!

Helpful Links for Practice

Hello Everyone! Look for Stephanie's post soon about what we've got coming up!

For now, I leave you with some Russian practice :)

to practice prununciation of the alphabet: http://masterrussian.com/blalphabet.shtml
About gender and word endings: http://masterrussian.com/nounsandcases/gender_and_number.htm
1000 common Russian words! http://masterrussian.com/vocabulary/most_common_words.htm

See you all next week! Watch for Stephanie's post all about our coming events and such!

Клара