As you know, I’ll be living in Kazan, Russia for six weeks. Here is pretty much everything I know about Kazan from Google and Wikipedia:
- It is about half Muslim and half Christian, and is said to be very accepting of all religions. They have some really nice mosques. They also have and LDS branch, yay!
- It is in the republic of Tatarstan, which makes the city half Tatar and half Russian. Everyone pretty much speaks Russian, but the street signs are in Tatar and Russian.
- They are the “third capital of Russia”, whatever that means.
- They are a big sporting city, and will be hosting some big sporting events in the near future (I think the World Cup??)
- The city does have a metro, with eight whole stops! I think I’ll mostly be using the busses and trams.
Thats pretty much all I know about my host city. Should be fun!
Culture Shock 