Dari Utara untuk Jakarta, Surat Rindu untuk Vina

In the morning, I see the sunrise and I wish "Vina, more than thousands of miles we are apart, but I know you are always with me". At 15.00 I come back to see the sunset and I wish "I talk to you, please tell her if here I miss her so much" When you close your eyes, I am there with you, I never go.

Vina, I spend many times to go out alone, I visit some another wonderful place here like what we did in Jakarta and I wish you are here. I went to the biggest library and I like when I was sitting and the view is frozen river Dvina, that's so beautiful, just like you. The tallest building in Arkhangelsk is called Высотка (Visodka), I am often around there because, that's center of the city, which located Почта России (the Russian post office), you must be here! 

Very interesting, the bookstore that makes a crazy, museum, old city Чумбарова-Лучинского and of course my favorite place traditional market. Arkhangelsk has many beautiful places to take photographs especially sunrise, sunset, and snow. I hope one day we can spend a day off, even only one day to complete my journey. I am without you is meaningless.

Vina, I will not go home this summer, sorry. I am going to Riga to attend summer school which organized by Triba University. You know I will learn the Latvian language! My first Baltic language, I am so excited! after coming back I'll start my master's degree and I plan to take place to participate in a student exchange to Tromso university and of course I will be a volunteer. 

I really want to see a red square and Hermitaze (Госуда́рственный Эрмита́ж), I hope I can go there this summer. But, I have bird of happiness (пти́ца сча́стья), a symbol of Arkhangelsk, I'll ask it to send my soul to you, please accept and keep it.

Vina, tell me everything about you, write and send to me. I don't mind how long I receive the letter a thousand year or even a century, I want to know about you. I can do everything here, but without you is like a sailing ship in the big ocean without a captain. 

I know my home and I will come back to you as soon as I finish my study. If you miss me, just tell the moon in the midnight, I will know it will tell me directly about your feeling and I will send my hand by wind then when you wake up in the morning, just breath the oxygen, it must be me.

I and Vina. Dokpri

Lomonosov and St. Michael

Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great

Bird of happiness. Source: stranamam.ru

Sunset in Dvina