4-21-07

4-21-07

As I’m now past the halfway point of April, I just have one question to ask--What the hell happened to March? No, really. I mean, a week and a half of it was spent outside the city, so there’s a reason that it went so fast. But really. I know things happened in March that weren’t in Moscow or in travel week, it seems like it was compressed or something. I don’t know. Moving on.

The reason that this is the first post I’ve written in a while is because nothing much of note happened this week. Monday I stayed after school and used the WiFi to post my last post, then just went home. Tuesday, a bunch of us went to Subway. After that we could’ve gone to a museum, but we know it was the last day of nice weather for a while, so we just took a book of crossword puzzles to Art Square and worked on those by the statue of Pushkin and chased pigeons around.

Wednesday, I wandered over to Cafe Max after school to get online because I didn’t bring my laptop to school. On a whim as I was heading back home, I stopped in the DVD store Titanic (Its main rival is named Iceberg). I didn’t have a whole lot of hope of finding Last of the Mohicans, but I figured it was worth a shot. I found a lot of copies of Last Action Hero, and then BAM! Last of the Mohicans. Got it, watched it, cried for the last 20 minutes of it. It is now making the rounds because, unfortunately, the sound is very quiet such that it’s only really possible to watch it on a laptop with headphones, so we can’t have one big watching party. That’s okay, though. Mission accomplished.

Thursday, Kate, Hillary, Becky, and I hit up the new Teremok on Nevsky for a late lunch. Earlier in the day, Katie gave me an invitation to a concert that the orchestra she’s in (The St. Petersburg State University Orchestra) was putting on. It was invitation only, you see. So after Teremok, I ran home, dropped off my bag, and then went back into the center for the concert. The concert is part of a festival honoring St. Petersburg’s outstanding citizens. Thursday night they honored the president of St. Petersburg State University, hence the reason the university orchestra was playing. So there I was, in my brown waffle shirt and jeans, hanging out with the high fallutin’ crowd of St. Petersburg society. The concert was really great, and I got to see Katie’s crazy conductor in action.

Last night we went back to Lider, the gigantic bar with all the pool tables. It’s a great place to hang out. Hillary and Lael joined us last night, so I was giving them the grand tour when we discovered something that I hadn’t seen the first time we were there--they have LASER TAG! Yes! Yeah, we’re totally going to do that. We’re also going to see if we can just make it some kind of CIEE event. Or at the very least, suggest it for future CIEE groups.

Today, in an hour and a half, some of us are joining Hannah and her parents (They’ve been in town this week) at Teremok for lunch. I think after that I’m going to go to Quo Vadis to post this and maybe some pictures as well. Tonight, I’m going to see Three Sisters again. CIEE’s paying the majority of the ticket price, so there are a bunch of students going as well. Plus, Marina’s going. The other night she was like, “You’re going? I’m going as well. We can have dinner here and then go together.” It’s a date! No idea what tomorrow holds, but I really think it’s going to depend on the weather. Crappy days are perfect museum days, and on nice days I just want to wander around.

There’s really not much time left, it’s kind of crazy. This might be the fastest a semester has ever gone in my life. I should point out, that since there’s so little time left, from this point on, you really shouldn’t send me anything, because odds are it won’t get here while I’m still here. That means you, Emily and Maggie. Everyone here is jealous of your postcards, just so you know.