Circus, Ballet, and Adventure.

Moscow is finally showing its true colors! Or at least it's magical Autumn colors :)

The weather went from pretty darn cold, to leather jacket weather

                                   

Exploring the woods NEVER gets old. There is so much to find and enjoy.

Like this random sketchy latter

 There are loads of parks too

filled with artistic stuff like this bench.

(I'm not sure what I'm doing)

 And this Magical cube of mirrors!

 And whatever the heck these things are.

 Also I found my new home. Fairies might live there too...

 Russia celebrates Teachers Day! They gave us all these beautiful flowers and had a huge performance.

It. Was. Awesome. :)

After about a week or so, My host mom gave my roses a bath

It's made them last SO much longer

She's a magician

 The Russian Circus was sooo cool! 

AND it was my first Circus ever. I wish I would have seen one when I was younger so I could have become an Acrobat and fly through the air with only a piece of fabris to hold me up!

 And this could have been me.

They also had people on huge Pogo sticks flung into the air and doing backflips!

Madness 

 One day Brooklyn and I decided to go and find this huge red bridge that she had seen in pictures. We could see it from her window on the 15th floor of her apartment building so we figured it wouldn't be that far....

Solid Logic

 After stumbling around the forest for two and a half hours, we could see the Bridge!

There was a small walkway on the highway that we decided would be the best route....

Little did we know, it wasn't actually a walkway at all and crazy Russian drivers would zoom past inches from us and we had nowhere to go but to continue on. 

I was hyper ventilating in no time.

 At one point, Our protective red wall stopped and there was a huge drop but luckily we found this grey grating that we thought if we shimmied onto... we would find our way down. 

 Turns out this was a worse Idea. The bars would shake as the cars zoomed past and we felt very vulnerable. So we climbed back to our sketchy walkway and eventually found an actual walkway right to our desired red bridge.

 Terrifying experience, but an adventure none the less. 

 That night we climbed a huge ski hill where we could see the gorgeous city lights surrounding us. 

City life has it's perks :)

 We've now had the chance to see the Russian Ballet perform "The Nutcracker" and "Sleeping Beauty" 

I never knew how much I love Ballet

It makes me so happy to see because ballet is the same in every Language

And no matter how confused I am everywhere else in this country,

I understand the Ballet as much as the Russian sitting next to me. 

I love all these adorable Russian kids and how wild and crazy they are. 

This has been a whirlwind of an experience and I've loved every second. 

Until next time.

With Love,

Nesha

Dreads!

 So I've thought long and hard about dreadlocks. Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I practically obsessed over them for the past two years. Doing double takes of those brave souls walking down the streets.
I've thought of the consequences:
 1. everyone automatically assumes that your a pothead (I've never smoked and never plan on it.)
 2. People think your dirty and don't wash your hair. (dreadlocks actually look better faster if you wash them as regularly as your regular hair :)
 3. It may be difficult to find a job

Well, those are the things I considered and knew to expect (along with other thing) BUT I also thought of all the reasons I wanted them.
 1. To me, dreadlocks represent a sense of freedom. A person who wears them is freed from the constant nagging of trying to be like everyone else. dreadlocks are obviously not the norm and if you wear them, it's because you don't care about being in "the norm". They have a courage to be different that I admire deeply.
 2.  having dreads calls for a more natural lifestyle. Although you of course still wash your hair, you use shampoos that don't leave chemicals and all that other junk, Just squeaky clean hair :)
 3. It fits my personality, It sounds super lame, but now that I finally have them, I feel like I was putting of a part of myself. It feel RIGHT to have them and although I don't plan on having them forever, it was the right decision for now :)

SOO onto the process!

 I called in a favor

And my wonderful friends Kaity, Alex, and Brooklyn helped me do the deed. 

What troopers

Thanks guys :)

I showed them how to do it and they started dreading away

It probably only took about 3-4 hours, which is surprising cuz usually it takes a lot longer

But with two or three people working at all times...plus Kaity had done someone's dreads before

So they did the bottom half in about an hour and a half and then we all got tired

We went to the Russian Ballet the next day (the nutcracker!) and a girl sitting in front of me had the most beautiful, long, neat dreads I've ever seen tied up in a really pretty bun. It was a sign! haha So when we got home we busted out the rest of my dreads.

            

 

So on the left are my brand spankin new dreads...Like a lions main eh?

And on the right after I tamed them a bit :) 

The ends were super hard to dread so we kinda just left them wispy.

I kinda like it more natural looking 

 Before and after. Viola

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Its like my dream to tie my hair up without any hair ties

Don't ask me why

I have no clue

But guess what!!! No hair ties 

"We must take Adventures to know where we truly belong"

With Love,

Nesha