news from turkmenistan

so, about a month ago, i received at my house a letter from this girl in turkmenistan. since i wasn't there to read it, my family/friends became a bit intrigued. as did i, but i totally forgot about it. so i'm going through my mail and see this letter written in english-russian. hrm... so i open it. lo and behold... it's in russian. awesome. my russian is about 3 stages past rusty. i can read, "hello zac. how are you? and something like how is your mom?" then it's all downhill. excellent, out comes the russian dictionary, more later.