2-17-07

2-17-07

Kofe Haus again. For some reason Word opened up in only 74% of its normal window size, so from a distance I guess you can’t really tell if I’m writing in Cyrillic or English. Despite this, I’m sure it’s still painfully obvious I’m an American.

Yesterday after a less-excruciating Civiliaztion Class, I met up with Hillary and Becky at the bookstore Bukvoed and we used the WiFi and Becky’s laptop there to nail down final plans and costs for travel week. But because we’re not purchasing the tickets til next week and I’m a crazy person terrified of jinxing things, I’m not going to discuss our plans until tickets are in hand, and hostel reservations are made.

After that, the three of us went out to an Italian restaurant near my apartment, Mama Roma. Very, very tasty, and also not expensive. Plus, they have free WiFi, though we didn’t use it. Just going to remember it in the future. Our waiter did get kind of obnoxious by the end of the night, though. I think it’s mostly because he was being mercilessly teased by the female staff for waiting on the 3 American girls in the restaurant

Wow, note to self: Kofe Haus has good ice cream.

Today I met up with Hannah, Kate, Mattison, Rachel Eve, Katie, and Katie’s Welsh roommate Beatrice and we shopped for a bit. It doesn’t sound like it would be a long activity, but it was. We were mostly souvenir shopping, but without the intention to buy, only to gauge prices. This does not please the owners of the souvenir stalls with their memorized English phrases. “Original watercolors!” “Matryoshka! There are pieces inside! Funny ones, Harry Potter, Putin!”

So then I came home, read for a bit, hand dinner and then came here. There’s talk of going to some kind of jazz club later tonight, I’ll see what kind of mood I’m in. For now, I’m going to finish this ice cream and enjoy my hour online.