So I've been super tired all day because we only really had a one-day-weekend, since we had class on Saturday. On Saturday night we went out to celebrate Cheryl's 23rd birthday at an American restaurant/bar, The Other Side. It was supposed to be a surprise, but I'm pretty sure she had a good idea that we were planning something. I bought her a birthday crown from Dom Knigi and some birthday candles - my host mother was making me feel really guilty because I wasn't planning on getting her an official gift. I told her that we'd probably just pay for her dinner and drinks and such, and she kept saying that that stuff should go without saying and, if it's her birthday, you have to give her something. But she seemed satisfied when I told her later that I got her the crown and candles.
On Sunday, I went to mass and then bought an umbrella, because it was raining! It's finally starting to warm up a little bit, which is exciting, but with that comes this mondo-city-meltdown. One of my friends compared walking around in Piter to walking around in a mud-flavored slurpee. Yum yum. Definitely need to buy some boots ASAP - this morning my host mother picked up my knee-high boots (which were not made for a Russian winter) with all their holes and said, "You need to throw these away." Lol. I said, "Yes, I agree."
Brittany and I also bought tickets to go see Alice in Wonderland on Thursday - it actually comes out in Russia a day before it comes out in America! I'm stoked. Then I went home and played some games with the girls, talked to my parents, and finished up my homework. Then I went out to meet my tutor at 9 pm at the bar where she DJs, Dacha. That totally made my day. We just sat and talked for an hour about random topics (my banya experience, American TV shows, music, torrenting, age differences, etc.) until her shift started. Then she introduced me to some of her friends that were my age that come to Dacha a lot. One of her friends, Anya, took me under her wing and talked with me for the entire night, introducing me to all of their friends and such. She was also really cool - she's studying German and English (kind of like a Russian version of what I'm doing) at a small university right now and she's half Armenian. She told me that she would invite me to come play poker with her group of friends if I was interested, so I was excited. Then when it got to be 12 and I had to catch the metro, Sasha (my tutor) had her two of her guy friends escort me to the metro, even though it was super close. I didn't get back home till around 12:30 and I was pretty sleepy in the morning, but it was absolutely worth it!
Today was a really long day because we had to make up a class that our teacher had cancelled last week today after the normal class day. Then right after that I found out that I had to meet with the people at the film company where I'm going to work for my internship! They are organizing a film festival for the summer and they put on old American movies with Russian subtitles at in Indie theater every week. It looks like we're (my friend Max is also interning with me) probably going to be working on Mondays and Fridays, editing English translations of things and such for now, but if we get to stay for the summer we'll get to do a lot of really cool stuff since that's when the festival is held :-).
Now I'm SUPER tired, so I'm going to sign off for tonight - probably next time, I'll be writing about the Russian hockey game we are going to on Wednesday!
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