asked me: "what has your last year been like?"
"Friggin' awesome" would be too short for an answer, so here are some details: I started learning Vietnamese about two years ago and visited Vietnam (mostly Hanoi actually) previous autumn. I can't imagine any place more beautiful than that city and right now I really want to go back. Apart from culture and amazing people, Hanoi has an atmosphere of pure comfort, like everything around you exists just to make you happy. Er, of course, there were problems and bad days, but in general it was so good that me and my group were yelling "Arrgh!" in airport when going back to Moscow.
Before that I had a wonderful experience of Italy where my mother and I went on a summer vacation. We decided to be grown-up girls and go all by ourselves without guides and tours. Because with people telling you what to do and see it's really boring. Like in Disney's "Mulan": "We feel a lot like cattle".
Italy is one happy country, very sunny, very noisy, like festival all year. And VERY delicious food. I mean, it's like you can swallow your tongue along with it, it's that good. And I'm in love with Florence and Venice. Because I'm boring.
Rome is huge and ancient, but Florence is cozy and Venice has something watercolor in it. They have more story than history and Rome is the opposite. I love history, it's just too much of it.
Annddd! We managed to visit Ischia! It's an island in Italy, several little towns on a seaside and in the mountains. Oooh, the mountains.
Apart from being crazy traveler, I had university 24/7. I'm on a faculty of Oriental studies and it's amusing, but too tiring. Too. Much. Information. For this one little head.
So, something like that.

Questions are still welcome.