9/7/10, 12:03 am

Привет, all you new Russian Club members. We hope you're getting acclimated to MSU and all it has to offer (for those who are new), or settling back into your old routines and school life (those, like us, who've been around for a while). Since the year has already kicked off, we have some business to get down to. It'll be brief. Promise.

First off, our weekly happenings will be starting up this week, so you better make sure your schedules are clear:
–Speaking hours are at 6 pm every Sunday in the Owen Hall basement (those of you who are having some trouble in class and/or want to work on conversational fluency are especially encouraged to come).
–Weekly meetings are now at 6 pm on Tuesdays in C211 Wells Hall. Our topics are virtually endless, so if there's something you specifically want to do/talk about, just bring it up.
–International coffee hours are Friday afternoons at 4 in the room just off the International Center food court. This is a great opportunity to meet some of the international TAs (including a number of Russians) and pick their brains about teaching, where they come from, really anything.

Secondly, we have some good events coming up in this month, so make sure you check back regularly for more details. We'll be having our semi-annual/whenever-we-feel-like-it Russian Club party later this month, and early in October we'll be heading to The Fiddler restaurant in West Bloomfield for as good a Russian meal as you can get outside Zarema's house. Keep your calendars clear, because you don't want to miss these. Trust us.


It's gonna be a great year, and we hope you guys have as much fun as we do. За русский клуб!