Video of Hometown

[peacetraveler22]

It finally happened! Someone posted a video of my hometown on YouTube this week. :) The quality isn't great but maybe you'll enjoy it. Or at least like the REAL country music playing in the background. I don't know the name of the singer. Many fun memories flashing on the video, including the roller skating rink, bowling alley and water park I frequently visited as a child. And you will see a shot of "Emmanuel Baptist Church." This is the school I went to from 5th - 12th grade. The one that made me agnostic. The nice shots of the fields at the end are from the Manassas Battlefield. I'll have to do a post on it sometime.

And if you haven't done so, check out my post "Home is Where the Heart Is" where I write about my hometown.

One reader was kind enough to take the time to drive around and make a video of his hometown for me. Really interesting to see!

I wish everyone a pleasant weekend.

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[dubai100.livejournal.com]

It is nice! Have a good weekend!

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[fesma94.livejournal.com]

I wish I could live there

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

You do not like life in Israel?

[notabler.livejournal.com]

Lovely little town! Just dream place to live for me. Much more spacious as the similar size towns in UK, wider roads, not so many cars parked along all the roads. And your house isn't so small for UK standard: we couldn't even put a diner table into our kitchen Many here have no diner tables and have to eat on their laps. I admired your beautiful family and wish all of them the very best. My husband would be so happy to have the garage your Dad has - he loves his tools as well and can fix everything, too

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the nice words. In America, we're spoiled with lots of space. Huge roads, homes and even most apartments are quite large compared to European standards. I've been to the UK several times and love the smaller towns, especially Bath.

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

Not only apartments but doors, refrigerators, washing machines ... almost everything is bigger or wider.
That's funny.

And also I've heard, true or not, that Americans travelling to Europe feel uncomfortable when temperature changes.
In America air conditioners are everywhere and all tuned to 70 F :)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Yes, we must have cool spaces! :) I cannot stand being hot. Even when I was in Russia in February, I had to open the window because my friend's apartment was so hot and there was no way to individually control the temperature. My apartment thermostat is set at 68F in summertime and in winter I never cut on the heat.

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

That always wondered my friends in London when being there I complained about their wet and foggy winter, single-glazed windows and insufficient heating.
They thought that Russians should endure winters better that British.
But that was a wrong assumption because you can endure 5 or 10 C, close the door, put on a sweater and wait for better times.
But when it's -20C around you'll just die with this strategy :)
So in Russia we do not endure winters, we have good heating instead.
25C or so :)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

This is too warm for inside, I feel like I'm suffocating. Are all apartment temperatures regulated in Russia? I know it's uncommon for apartment complexes to have air-conditioners. But you cannot control your own temperature at all in winter? Or maybe it was just his place.

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

Theoretically, you can if you have regulators installed.

I have regulators on my heat radiators.
They can open or close hot water flow inside.
Chief engineer of the house said "don't touch them as they are not guaranteed to work" :) but anyway I could change to the new ones which will work, if I wanted to.

But I have no intention to do it because, first, the water temperature is regulated by the automatics for the whole house according to the temperature outside.
It's almost never too hot (for me).
And second, everybody pays fixed price for heating so it's wiser to open the window and get more fresh air if it is hotter than desired.

It is a very centralized system, anyway.
All houses get this overheated water (or even steam) directly from electric power stations through underground pipes.
The whole system turns on around the first of October and turns off around the first of May.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

This system would not work for me. I like to be in control of my surroundings, and not have someone else determining house temperatures, etc. I didn't know that everyone pays fixed pricing there. Russian winters, they are beautiful! I wish we had them in Virginia.

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

BTW you felt suffocation not only because of high temperature but also because outside air is very dry in winters and feels even more dry when heated.
In such a case you can buy a humidifier.

[dodger-37.livejournal.com]

tell us about your city, make a series of photographs

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I did :) - http://peacetraveler22.livejournal.com/20517.html. The first part is about my childhood home and family, but the last part is about the town. I'll try to write about other places in Manassas in the future. I lived there most of my life.

[mybathroom.livejournal.com]

I liked this video a lot! I like cozy towns like this one. I wish I would live in this town.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to have seen the video of your town as well. Of course, there are many entertaining YouTube videos from Russia, but more are of scary drivers or drunk gopniks. :) Yours was more pleasant.

[mybathroom.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Shannon.

Video of Hometown.

[alex1506.livejournal.com]

Это твой родной городокъ?

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[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Привет! Да.

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[alex1506.livejournal.com]

Ты знаешь русскій?

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[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Да, я говорю и понимаю немного русский.

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[alex1506.livejournal.com]

Ты русская?

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[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Нет, я американец. :)

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[alex1506.livejournal.com]

Гдѣ русскій учила?

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[nar-row.livejournal.com]

"Американец" is masculine gender.
Feminine gender is "американка". :)

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[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Thanks for correction. I'm always confused with the gender thing in Russian language.

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[nar-row.livejournal.com]

You just need a little practice. :)

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

NIce.
When in America I always tuned my car radio to a country music station and my TV to CMT.
Love it.

[asharky.livejournal.com]

Cute town!
But this is not a video, but a set of photos, collected together )

Симпатичный город!
Но это не видео, а набор фотографий, собранных воедино )

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I became so excited to see my hometown on YouTube that I didn't even notice it was photos. Спасибо! :)

[asharky.livejournal.com]

Another slide film on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et7hjJmaN8I (Old town estates views)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKdPvWqMkso - 150th Anniversary Civil War Parade - July 22nd, 2011

Fine city! Beautiful people!

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I've seen these Civil War reenactments. The people are amazing, in their wool suits in the middle of very hot and humid Virginia summers. There's a lot of history here, so it's a cool area in which to live.

[rider3099.livejournal.com]

It is early nice place - homey and quiet.
Have a nice Sunday :)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Thanks, you too! And if you're ever in the DC or Northern VA area write me and we can meet. :)

[rider3099.livejournal.com]

Sure! Thank you!

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

Off:

Somebody in the past discussions said that he does not want Russia to be like Iran.
But what do we know about the REAL Iran?

www. militaryphotos. net/forums/showthread.php?136875-The-real-Iran-may-different-from-what-you-see-in-the-media/page38

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Haha. Just amazing photos.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I only see photos of beautiful Iranian women here. Nothing to do with military. :)

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

In "fundamentalist religious" Iran young people express their sexuality much stronger than I ever saw in the US :)

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

There are plenty of sluts running around America also, "expressing" themselves at every opportunity. I guess the amount varies in each State.

[mujlan01.livejournal.com]

Cute little town :)) and a historical place as far as I understood.
I wonder what people do for a living? I mean is there «real» local buseness, or some of them can get job not far from city?

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

It's quite historical in the Civil War context. A lot of people commute to DC for work, but it's a real hellish drive. About two hours in rush hour traffic each way. I used to drive it everyday, but then moved to Arlington, Virginia to be closer to the city. On weekends when there's no traffic, it's only about 1/2 hour ride to DC.

[mujlan01.livejournal.com]

Holy shit....4 hours every day driving sounds like Moscow :))

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

DC area has the worst traffic in America. Very few people actually live in the city, so everyone commutes from the suburbs of Virginia and Maryland. I sat in Moscow traffic and it's similar. :)

[direkt-mashin.livejournal.com]

"This is the school I went to from 5th - 12th grade. The one that made me agnostic.".

I profess Christian religion Orthodox Church. but I in the childhood studied in an atheistic school.. so we have just the opposite happened

your city is the right size. seen live poryadochnym hard-working people. no one just up the street drunk not goes . everything is so clean.. America , especially provincial, beautiful country. good people.. respect that America. and the MegaCities I don't like. .you know.. well in school in you childhood priests explained the Babylon.. Babylon don't like.
like Blues and country

God bless this land

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I do not like big cities either. I'm a small town girl. :)