Belarus Two - Text
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I'm from Polotsk, Belarus. It's a town of about 200,000 people, um...I think it's third largest in the country. Belarus, as you probably know, is a...it's former Soviet Republic with Latvia, then it separated and all that stuff. Anyway, like my town Polotsk, we have uh... uh, there's cathedrals, only three in the world, and one of them is in my town. The cathedral is around 1400 years old, and it's been--like, the wall's I think about...15 meters of brick and cement walls, so all the wars, everything still stands to this day. Um...we have a river that goes to the Baltic Sea...and um, me and my friends once tried to go to for a journey, but we, we only could take on the water about three hours, 'cause the boat was from like wo-wood...wood stuff, we just didn't have anything, and uh, like a pirate ship, a mini pirate ship. But yeah, we didn't make it, far *laughs* we made it to the next town, almost drowned in the process, so we just decided not to do it anymore. And what else can I say? The food um, the food is great I think. Everyone likes it because it's similar Canadian food and American food um, a lot of fat, lot of carbohydrates--a lot of good stuff basically. Um, I've been in Canada for about uh...5 years straight, since I was 13-18, and the on and off for about 2 more years. So I've been speaking English for five years straight, and then like drastic change between those dates.