Oh, hi! Look, I've made a blog, isn't that neat? It's just a shame I'm not interesting enough for it to be worth reading! (I hear self-deprication is in these days. Almost as much as being self-referential, ironic, and ironically self-referential.)
For those who stumble across this accidentally, first of all: Hello, it's nice to meet you! Secondly, where the heck did your inspiration to search for "Russki P-Daddy" on Blogspot come from?! Did Lucy send you? Or perhaps you've been sent by Lynne Attwood?
Either way, welcome to my little (first ever) blog! I'm Joseph Golding, studying German, Russian and a wee bit of Japanese at University of Manchester and this is where I will (hopefully) be posting about all my misadventures in the wonderful land of Russia over the next year or so (and there WILL be misadventures. From what I hear, you can't take 5 steps in Russia without bumping right into some form of wacky hijink (I don't think there's a singular form for hijinx, so I've just created one now. (Brackets within brackets is a central theme of my writing style, get used to it.)))
If you want to know more about me, look in the "About me" section, which I presume this site will have somewhere, I dunno, I've been fiddling with it for about half a minute and have been unceremoniously thrust into writing my first blog post. I've managed to maintain my English, so overall I'd say it's going swimmingly so far!
As for now, I've still got about a month until I actually have to set off to Russia, so...Erm...I guess I might update you with things like the Visa application process (I hear it's a fun little song and dance for which the rhythm is inconsistent and the moves are changed every few minutes.) But until then, my dear friends,
Farewell!
Joe
