it is decidedly March

Happy Friday!

Today started off a bit less than ideal. I still didn't have my bus pass and I had to get to class at 10, which meant getting up relatively early. When Irina finally came to give us the bus passes I was in such a hurry to get to the bus stop that my scarf fell off on the side of the road and I didn't notice until I was sitting on the bus!

I frantically texted Irina and Laura to see if they could search the dorm and the route between the dorm and the bus stop, but no response. I got to class early, but everyone else was half an hour late since their bus broke down just behind mine. And then David walked in the door with my scarf!! Apparently it fell of just before I went to cross the street and sat in a gross pile of slushy snow for about 10 minutes. So, thankfully I got it back, and once I wash it (it smells like gross presently) I'll be super sure to wrap it around my neck and not just drape it on my shoulders every time I head out.

Class (Politology) was fine, but I'm just glad we didn't have a double class since I don't think I could handle 6 straight hours of Russian Politics... :)

In other news, I just heard that Alex Von (from KEI) is coming to Moscow next week to help sort out some of the problems that have arisen with classes and scheduling and everything. Dang. Everything save research and a textbook and possibly another musical group is a-ok for me, but it seems some others haven't been so lucky.

Oh and newsflash - rumor has it we're not moving to the main building tomorrow. Surprise, surprise.

Yesterday afternoon I met up with Vincent, the guy I met at church last Sunday. I figure he's Russian and knows Moscow better than me, maybe we'll go somewhere scenic or he'll show me a random tourist attraction. Instead, we rode the metro one stop and wound up at...McDonald's. Which I found slightly amusing. He wanted to hear all my impressions of Russia and how I thought it compared with the US. It's hard to say "everything is disorganized and it's really cold" without sounding overly negative, because I don't have a negative impression of Russia, but both of those things are true!! Anyway, it was pretty random, and for the record, vanilla milkshakes at McDonald's taste the same in Moscow.

Think I'm going to head out now. (I'm in the computer lab in the medical faculty building since people are kind of lingering about here and the internet doesn't limit me on how many MBs I can use.) No plans for the weekend, really...I heard something about the circus on Sunday, maybe for real this time. We Shall See.