Stereotypes about Russia (part 1) Hello,everyone! So today I finally decided to write my 1st notebook entry. I genuinely wanted to write it in Spanish, the language that I’m trying to learn now, but my knowledge of it is at a really low level and I don’t want to write something very simple and primitive. So my first entry here is going to be in English which is also far from being perfect so you are all very welcome to improve and correct it. Also due to the fact that the number of symbols in the notebook is limited I would have to separate my entry into 2 parts, I hope it wouldn’t be inconvenient but I can’t write shortly! I have stream of consciousness here! Though my entry is in English it’s going to be about Russia,my wonderful native country. The thing that I want to discuss,(yes, discuss, because I hope you will answer to me ) is ‘Stereotypes about Russia’. People just love to stereotype and put labels on everything, I believe we all do it in some way and there are no exceptions. Before writing this mini-article I googled some stereotypes about Russia and Russian people. Some of them I knew, some of them surprised me. But today I want to write about the most common ones. Here we go: 1. Russia is very cold. Well, partially maybe it’s true in comparison with some other hot sun-shining-all-the-time countries. But basically many people think (I hope you are not one of them) that it’s snowing here all the time and we wear this fur coats and fur caps with red star on it 24/7. No,it’s not!!! Russia is the biggest country of the world!! It has 12 time zones! In general we have cold summers and hot-warm summers, which is similar to Canada or Northern part of the USA btw. 2. Vodka. Some foreign people think that all Russians drink vodka. I don’t agree I know many people who can’t stand this particular drink (including myself). Of course there are some men or women who abuse it,but not everyone!!! Moreover, I don’t think that Russian people drink more than the rest of the world. If there would be some kind of International Alcohol Association, I believe Russia wouldn’t be the President of it! (The continuation is in the 2nd part)…