I believe that Ludmila thinks our class is sufficiently insane after today's class. She asked us to come up with advice for foreigners in Russia and in the US (in Russian of course), and we came up with some weird things. Actually we spent most of our time explaining US cultural norms to her in Russian and how to apply/why we chose the advice we did. Needless to say, hilarity ensued. Oh well! All in the name of maintaining sanity during our last week in Russia!
Today our list of things to do was short and sweet, just the way the Moscow weather likes it! We rode the metro over to Pushkinskaya to see Pushkin Square (Пушкинская Площадь) and the very regal monument to the Russian poet himself. It's a popular meeting place in Moscow and people still leave flowers at the base of the monument to show their continuing appreciation for the great writer. A quick but beautiful sight!
After this we headed over to Leninskii Prospekt to check out the infamous ever-huge monument to the first Russian cosmonaut,Yuri Gagarin. We came up from the metro so that we had a lovely view of the monument's back. After several minutes of debating and staring at the giant traffic circle/highway between us and the statue, we decided that seeing the monument from the back was awesome enough and to locate some (what else) ice cream. So here's a picture of what the statue looks like from the front that I pulled from the web:
The weekend us upon us again, which here in Russia usually means drinking and sightseeing really cool old buildings. Tomorrow we're going to a palace within the limits of Moscow. But before then and before the evening festitivies begin dinner is to be made and laundry is to be done! So farewell from the motherland for now!
Love and hugs to all! xoxo
P.S. And out of the millions of people (11,514,300 as of 2010) living in Moscow right now, who else do we see on the metro but one of our fellow Americans, Atticus. After an American exchange in the metro and lots of staring, calculate the odds of that!
P.P.S. I got carded again today. American documents to the rescue! I like to think our super nice demeanor and constant "спасибоs" endeared us to the poor cashier who had to read my English language passport. Heh.
(7 full days left in Russia!)
Today our list of things to do was short and sweet, just the way the Moscow weather likes it! We rode the metro over to Pushkinskaya to see Pushkin Square (Пушкинская Площадь) and the very regal monument to the Russian poet himself. It's a popular meeting place in Moscow and people still leave flowers at the base of the monument to show their continuing appreciation for the great writer. A quick but beautiful sight!
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| Hannah chillin' in Pushkin Square |
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| Monument to A. Pushkin |
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| Me taking a break at a beautiful fountain in the Square |
After this we headed over to Leninskii Prospekt to check out the infamous ever-huge monument to the first Russian cosmonaut,Yuri Gagarin. We came up from the metro so that we had a lovely view of the monument's back. After several minutes of debating and staring at the giant traffic circle/highway between us and the statue, we decided that seeing the monument from the back was awesome enough and to locate some (what else) ice cream. So here's a picture of what the statue looks like from the front that I pulled from the web:
The weekend us upon us again, which here in Russia usually means drinking and sightseeing really cool old buildings. Tomorrow we're going to a palace within the limits of Moscow. But before then and before the evening festitivies begin dinner is to be made and laundry is to be done! So farewell from the motherland for now!
Love and hugs to all! xoxo
P.S. And out of the millions of people (11,514,300 as of 2010) living in Moscow right now, who else do we see on the metro but one of our fellow Americans, Atticus. After an American exchange in the metro and lots of staring, calculate the odds of that!
P.P.S. I got carded again today. American documents to the rescue! I like to think our super nice demeanor and constant "спасибоs" endeared us to the poor cashier who had to read my English language passport. Heh.
(7 full days left in Russia!)
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