Sort of like "America" and not "Mininisota".
Russia is a big country. The largest actually. With
the expected multible biomes and land froms.
A quick glace at a world map shows that the southern
most portion of Russia has roughly the same latitude
as Virgina. (the black sea region, I think it is
classified as a "cool mediterianian" climate)
Then you have to take into account air currents, ocean
currents, and relative altitude of each region...
Your teacher was probally from the region West of the
Urals (where most of the population is) in the
relativly mild weathered agricultural region south
east of Poland. The weather there (estimating wildly)
is somewhere between Iowa and New York.
--- Brian Haas <bhaas_at_netexpress.net> wrote:
> At 02:15 PM 2/12/03 -0800, Bob Sinclair wrote:
> >I've been reading all these messages about
> cold...freezing cold.
> >They make me wonder once again why anyone would
> choose
> >to live in such places.
>
> Here's one for you -
>
> I'm from Wisconsin, my piano teacher's from Russia.
> So today he says to
> me, "What in the world posessed your ancestors to
> settle HERE of all
> places? The weather is HORRIBLE!"
>
> The guy says he's from Russia. What kind of a wimpy
> Russian is he anyway?
>
> Travis Haas
> Hazel Green, WI
> (home from college for the weekend)
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