About me

My name is Masha (which is a short version of Maria in russian), I was born and lived 30 years of my life live in Moscow, Russia. In 2012 I've married to an austrian and in 2013 after we've succeeded with all paperwork I've moved to live in Austria. We live in Vorarlberg, which is a austrian region located just at the border with Switzerland. We literally go for a walk to Switzerland and even can reach it swimming in an old Rhein:) Vorarlberg is a beautiful place to live and after I've recovered a bit from my cultural schock I've fallen in love with the place.
Not to confuse anybody - right at the moment I'm writing this we don't live in Austria. In summer 2013 my husband got transferred to his company's mother-company to USA, California. That's why you may expect to read a lot about California for the whole next year beginning from now (August 2013).
My husband's name is Johannes and probably he will also post somethings here from time to time.

The main goal of this blog is to keep in touch with our non-russian speaking friends and let them share our expatriation experience.

I write of course much more in my russian blog which is augenblick.livejournal.com which I've started in 2007 but I hope that I'll be able to fill this one with the interesting information as well.

P.S. The name of both my blogs "augenblick" means "a moment" in german. With this I mean that the blog is mostly dedicated to the moments of my life, to say in other words, it's a diary which represents my day-to-day life, experiences, thoughts, joys and worries.