Night in my hometown Sterlitamak (Russia)
I live in Australia, but I was born in a country town of Russia. It is called Sterlitamak. I have many memories about my home town when I was a kid. It is pretty called in winter, compare to Australia. The temperature can get to -40 outside. I remember when it happened the school got closed and all the students had to stay home. But no one really did that, we all went outside and slid down the show hill. Sterlitamak is not a very rich town; I believe because of corruption in general therefore small pathways for pedestrians could be covered in snow very high and people had difficulties walking through in the morning. But for children it was a really fun thing when we had to wade through the snow hills that could reach our bum. We were never scared of cold. My brother fell through the ice when he went to feed ducks once. He was 7, but he managed to get out of the river, get home and kept in secret for a bit what happened to him. I was proud of him.
