November Update

I am back in Canada after being in Russia for September and October.

Story Update: I had made the decision to pause writing, as every time I approached this, I broke down. Things are better now, but not perfect. I will hopefully resume working on this project after I finish writing my travel journal. My plan is to redo the beginning of the story, with images. I had talked to people in order to edit the story, and realized that the visual details were in the images, and feel very bizarre for me to put in writing. I have also been told there are issues with the Sergei / Jennifer dialogs. I had never intended to get to a professional writing level with my writing from the beginning, but it would be helpful to improve things.

Travel Journals: I was in Russia again, and I still have not finished my documentation from the previous year. I do want to write something up to finish this, as well as talk about what occurred more recently. I doubt the order will be chronological, especially since I have forgotten many of the details from the older trip.

Personal Update: I have been dealing with certain issues since I got back from Russia, which I don't completely understand.
As far as I can tell, this issue is this:
   a) I was in Russia, and it feels more comfortable for me to be in Russia. I it is difficult for me to explain this, not because I don't have words to describe this, but because people feel the need to criticize how I describe this, which triggers the sense of alienation all over again.
   b) When I got back, I basically needed to "debrief" from the trip, put my thoughts together and figure out what I need to do. In order to do this, I needed to talk to people, but I had nobody to talk to who wouldn't instinctively attack me on what I had to say. Yes, that is a simplification, but it is also the truth of the situation.