Around the World...and then some

Отличные дни

Things that have made me smile in the past 48 hours:

- Linguistics! My class called “Theory of Spoken Communication” and a super nice teacher who hands out lecture notes (lecture notes = me understanding!).

- Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. Yesterday, we took a tour of Красный Октябрь, a chocolate factory in the middle of Moscow. The guide took us around the factory and literally picked up chocolates off the conveyer belt for us to try. And then they gave us even more chocolate at the end. It was fabulous.

- Finding my favorite spot in all of Moscow and just standing there for 20 minutes, looking. It’s a bridge in front of the Cathedral Храм Христа Спасителя. You’re standing over the Moscow River, with one of the most gorgeous cathedrals in the world on one side, and a perfect view of the Kremlin on another. It’s amazing. Pictures, by the way, will be updated this weekend. :)

- Finding my second favorite spot in all of Moscow, Tsaritsyno Park and walking around all afternoon with Kathy and Drew (other students in the Midd program).

- Did I mention we ate a lot of chocolate yesterday?

- Beautiful, gorgeous, amazing weather! Not a cloud in the sky, and in the 70s. The weather hasn’t been that wonderful since we got here.

- Watching LOST in Russian, even though I don’t understand a lot of it (Becca Steinberg and I have already planned an English LOST party for next summer for anyone who’s interested).

- Dancing. This doesn’t count as the past 48 hours, but oh well. It feels so good to be dancing again with real classes and real teachers. I really missed it.

- Two truly wonderful days. I mean, I've had good days and fun days and days that make me smile, but the past two have just been wonderful. It's finally made me feel as though I really can do this all semester, and maybe I'll even have a little bit of fun with it too...

posted by Becky @ 3:06 AM