Max: Hello, friends! Julia: Hello everyone! Max: You are on the “Russian with Max” channel.
This is a channel for those who study Russian. This is a dialogue, friends. Today we have a dialogue.
And in this dialogue, Yulia, my wife and I will talk about our life in the city of Neuquen, Argentina. Yes, yes, if you are not in the context, then we already had a video about why we decided to live in Neuquen after Buenos Aires. Yes, Julia?
Julia: Yes. Max: In that video we were just discussing why we want to live in another city. Julia, let's talk about our experience of living in Neuquen.
Julia: In Patagonia. Max: In Patagonia, yes. Tell me, how long have we been in Patagonia?
Yulia: Well, a month and a half. Max: Yeah, a month and a half. Yes, about a month and a half.
What, let’s say, did you manage to do during these month and a half, here in Neuquen? Yulia: During these month and a half, I managed to enroll in a kayaking school. And I even went to classes two or three times, I don’t remember.
And this is very cool, because Neuquen is located on two rivers. True, we’re only skating one at a time, but it’s very cool, very beautiful. Because on a kayak you can find yourself in places where you can’t get to on foot.
Max: Yes, that's true. Yulia: Unfortunately, as part of the lesson you cannot go ashore or take a walk there. Well, we have never had anything like this before.
Max: I also go to the same kayaking classes, and we have already gone out at least three times on different islands and walked. Here. Here are some photos that I took on one of the islands.
Overall, very cool. Julia: I haven’t done it yet, but maybe in the next lesson we’ll get somewhere. Max: What else?
Julia: We also go for walks quite a lot here in an area called bardas. It's kind of like. .
. Max: Well, I had a video about bardas, let's make a reference to that video. Yulia: Yes, these are hills in the desert, in the steppe.
Max: Along the steppe. Yulia: In the steppe, yes. It's very cool because it's a 5 minute walk from our house.
You don’t need to go anywhere, you just crossed the road and went into the steppe. Max: Gone to the steppe. Julia: Do you like it, Max?
Max: Yes, moreover, even now we are sitting, and I see the endless distance, I see the horizon line. I see very, very far there, into the distance. Therefore, it really attracts your eye.
I really like sitting and working at the computer. You turn your head and you see, here. .
. Julia: Steppe. Max: Yes, endless steppe and small mountains.
Here. It's all very, very beautiful. Very beautiful.
What's wrong with Sabrina? Julia: Sabrina went to kindergarten! Max: Yes, Sabrina went to kindergarten.
For the first time in her life, Sabrina goes to kindergarten. It's amazing, it's amazing what worked for her. Julia: Yes, she likes it.
She's clearly happy with what's going on there. And she loves to play with other children, she loves when there are a lot of interesting activities. She's very extroverted, it just so happens.
So now she goes to kindergarten for three hours a day and so far everything is going well. Max: Everything is going great! She leaves, comes, she takes the bus.
No, Sabrina is one and seven months old, so no. Of course, we take her to kindergarten. By the way, this is some interesting vocabulary, right?
Take your child to kindergarten. Julia: And pick up the child. Max: And pick up the child from kindergarten.
Who takes Sabrina to kindergarten? Julia: Me or you. Max: Yes.
Sometimes me, sometimes Julia. More often than not, Julia takes Sabrina to kindergarten. Well, I don’t think I took it, or only took it once.
Julia: Probably once. Max: In general, Yulia is taking Sabrina to kindergarten and picking her up too. Okay, Julia, the question is this.
What did we manage to implement here in Neuquen that we wanted? That is, we had expectations. We were recording a video in Buenos Aires.
And we said there: “Ahh, we want this, this, this and this from Neuken. ” And what did we succeed or fail to implement? Which expectations were met and which were not?
Come on, first: spend more time in nature. Yulia: It seems to me that it was justified, because Neuquen is simply located in such a way, and we live in the very north of the city, so it is very easy for us to get to some natural places. Max: What do you mean Neuquen is in the north?
Does North mean nature? Yulia: No, I said that we live in the north of the city, close to the steppe. Max: Yes, yes.
We need to clarify. Yulia: We don’t need to go, yes, to the steppe, we can go there for a walk. And one of the rivers is also close, we can walk there.
It takes twenty minutes to get to the second one by bus. Max: Well, in short, indeed, nature is close to our home. I had a video, I showed there, this is where the house is, where nature begins.
So we spend more time in nature? Julia: In nature, definitely. Max: Okay, but I heard you say that I walk less here than in Buenos Aires.
Is that so? Julia: It seems to me that this is so, because in Buenos Aires I felt very comfortable walking around the city. Here, walking around the city is, well, firstly, less comfortable if you are walking with a stroller.
Max: With a baby stroller. Julia: With a baby stroller. Because the city, one way or another, is located on the hills, so there are steps, somewhere the road ends, and there you need to, I don’t know, walk along the roadway.
And walking with a baby stroller is not very convenient. Plus, in general, the city is quite small, and there probably aren’t any attractions in the city. Buenos Aires has many attractions, parks, some historical architecture, and it is quite interesting to walk there.
Here, in the city itself, it’s probably a little less interesting for me to walk, and that’s why I have. . .
Max: A little less interesting. How politically correct. A little.
. . I'm a little less interested.
And I just know Yulia, Yulia is like: “Damn, I don’t like walking here! Here. .
. " Julia: Well, that's not true! What do you mean I don't like walking?
It's just. . .
Max: Well, just a little less interesting. That is, this is super interesting, yes, here is Bayres (Buenos Aires), and here is Neuquen “a little less interesting. ” Like this.
I would say like this. Julia: Well, I don’t agree, I don’t know. But yes, for two reasons: there are not many places in the city where it is interesting to walk, plus there is not a convenient infrastructure everywhere for walking with a stroller.
I feel like I move less here. Max: Okay. Accepted.
Julia: What is your impression? Do you move more or less here? Max: Probably more.
Although I can't say for sure yet. Well, that is, probably more. Yes, I definitely spend more time in nature.
Overall, I still think that I don’t move enough and that I don’t do enough sports and exercise. But I still have no fucking idea how to implement a healthy lifestyle, work efficiently, take care of a child, and so on. Living in another country and doing all this like this is very, very effective, very good.
Julia: Productive. Max: Productive, be successful. No, sometimes you want to have a beer because you're stressed and you're like, "Damn it, I need a can of beer.
" Sometimes you just want to lie down and die, lying on the bed like that. That is, in fact. .
. Julia: How sad. Max: Well, who is sad, but I.
. . well, I want to be honest with myself and with the audience.
Well, indeed, everything is going differently, so I can’t say that moving to Neuquén solved any number of problems, well, not problems, difficulties. I can’t say that moving solved a number of difficulties, but we didn’t even think about it. .
. That is, we already understand that moving never solves any internal difficulties, right? What is hard, morally, there is stress and so on.
Well, but. . .
Now I'll finish quickly. Soon, or rather, I’ll finish soon. But the fact is that yes, I think my mental health has improved in general.
Well, that is, in Buenos Aires there was often just, how to put it, hopelessness. Such a feeling of hopelessness. Do you remember when I just went to the couch, turned on some video and just watched it like that?
There is no such thing here. There is a little bit of chaos and stress. Now here, now here, one thing, another, but there is no such hopelessness.
Here. Julia: I see. Max: Well, you see, you decided to be politically correct in this video, and I decided, as we say, to cut the truth.
Julia: Yes, I don’t know what to chop. I said everything as I think. Max: Well, you see, you.
. . Maybe you just think like that, well, of course, it’s politically correct in quotes, but I mean like this, expressing yourself: “a little less.
. . ” And I prefer to say it like this today.
I'm in that mood. To cut down the truth. This is such an expression, friends.
Here. Julia, there is one more point that I would like to discuss. We thought that there would be more practice of Spanish here, since here we do not have friends, our social circle.
Julia: We have no friends! Max: Well, here in Neuquen, right? Please tell me what's going on with your Spanish practice?
Julia: I think there is more Spanish practice here, because at least. . .
Max: We have more Spanish practice here, right? Julia: We have more Spanish practice here. We go to a kayaking school, all our classmates there are Argentinians, and we communicate with them one way or another in Spanish.
Max: You also go to yoga. Julia: I went twice. Yes, I go to yoga.
All the guys there are from here too. Kindergarten. And when we were looking for a kindergarten, we went and met the directors, yes, we went on excursions, also everything was in Spanish.
I don’t know, usually some conversations that start on the street, they are also longer here, because as soon as you say that you came from Russia, everyone is very surprised, because, well, here. . .
there are Russians here, but there are very few of them. And there are few tourists here, and for many it is surprising how you came from such a distant country, why you are here, why Neuquen. And so, yes, you practice Spanish.
Max: What’s also funny is that people are very surprised when you say that, “Well, I came here because it’s nature. ” Julia: They are very surprised. Max: People are like, “What?
What nature? There’s desert here, steppe all around. ” Yulia: Yes, drive four hours - there are the Andes.
There, probably, no one will be surprised by the phrase that I moved here because of nature. And we have to explain that, well, Buenos Aires is a metropolis, there are no natural places around, but here there are rivers, there are steppes, there are small forests. And this is the practice of Spanish.
Max: Yes, yes, it's true, it's true. Well, overall, how would you rate. .
. what would you say about this move? Rather, did he meet your expectations, whatever they were, or did he not?
Yulia: More likely justified. In general, we were in Neuquen before moving here, so we understood exactly, well, what this city looks like, yes, what is here, what is not here, and it seems to me that the expectations are the same. It's still winter.
She's quite warm. But I think that in the spring it will generally be very beautiful here, because some trees are already blooming, and in the spring everything will become greener, more blooming, more sunny, although there is already plenty of sun. Max: Yes, it's sunny here every day.
These are the first days when it rains at all. Yulia: Well, in general, the move lived up to expectations, and I think it’s cool here. What do you think, are your expectations justified?
Max: I agree, yes. I guess I understand that in the future, when we will be more selective in choosing a city to live in, I understand that, of course, the city should be larger so that both you and I can feel comfortable in life. But it's an interesting experience.
Julia: Very much. Max: There is nature here, and in general, well, it’s cool that we moved here, that we see a different life in Argentina. Yulia: Yes, that was probably the main expectation, right?
The main… the main goal is to see, among other things, another Argentina, not just the capital. Max: Yes, friends, well, this is how our life flows. See you in the next video.
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Julia: Bye everyone!
