The Texification of Evgeny

Evgeny Zakov is a young lawyer from Russia who is working with El Jefe for a year in the Houston office of El Jefe's law firm before returning to Moscow to work in their Moscow office. He is here to get experience with the US capital markets and stock and bond offerings and then will be working with the firm's oil and gas clients who are exploring and drilling in Russia.

He is blogging periodically about his experiences in Texas. You will be charmed by the way he describes getting settled in Houston, going to the Houston Rodeo, visiting the Gulf of Mexico, getting his first car ("because Texas is larger than France") and his first cowboy hat. That's the picture I posted here from his blog of him with "Jack", the good ol' boy who sold him the hat. His post about his conversation with Jack is priceless. Here's the link.

Evgeny, we have a saying down here: You may not have been born in Texas--but you got here as fast as you could! Now that you have a Cowboy Hat and a car you're a Texan now. Keep blogging, and we hope you will have many fond memories of your year with us.