crunch time

I’ve decided to post todays blog with the one that I was trying to post on Saturday..

Hello!
How is everyone doing? I hope everyone is doing fantastic.. im doing pretty well.
Sunday :
Ok so at 6:30 am on Sunday someones car alarm was going off for like 15 mins!! Right outside of our window! And it had like every alarm sound possible…its actually funny now because why would anyone have SUCH and OBNOXIOUS car alarm.. I wonder if that’s really necessary..anyway I fell back asleep…THEN the wild dogs (probably the blond one which I named Spunky) was barking and barking and wouldn’t stop! So I just got out of bed and startd my day..I went to the Peter and Paul Fortress with my peer tutor- it was really cool to be that up-close and they had a bunch of little places where you could buy souvenirs which I didn’t even realize that they had anything like this.. there was a statue of Peter the Great there and it was so ugly! Haha Vasa warned me that it was ugly but I didn’t believe her until I saw it.. its this HUGE body sitting in a chair but he had such a small rounded head! She took a pic of me with it so hopefully ill get it..we paid 50 rubles to go up on this thing and get a look at most of the city.. I got some pictures. I don’t think anything will compare to what I saw on Friday at peterhof.. after we saw the fortress she took me to this café that had really really good home made pies.. I got one with shallots and cheese or rice? And one with beef and onions.. so tasty! I wish I was able to make them myself but I don’t think I could.. after that we just walked around for a little while doing some window shopping. We separated around 5pm because I had to go home and get ready for the ballet! Yes- another ballet.. this one was called Shurale it was more like a play instead of a ballet.. I liked it but I thought the other one was better. There was a big thank you at the end of the ballet .. I think its because it was the first time they did this one in like 50 yrs – but Rachel and I decided to peace out so were walking to the bus stop and we see our bus (bus #6) so im like hey we should try to get on that so we don’t have to wait and she was like can we? I was like I don’t know we could try? Should we? Haha so I ran up to the bus while it was stopped at the red light and I pointed to the door and said “mozhna?” (can i?) and he let us in!! when the bus caddy guy came to swipe our cards he looked at us like we had 10 heads! We also noticed that we got on a nice bus with a tv and they were playing tom and jerry 
I also bought tickets to see ballet on ice.. it should be awesome im pretty excited! I love figure skating and I recently became a fan of the ballet so I’m thinking it will be amazing.. the show is swan lake by the way

Today I had class until 3 (yay early day) so I went to the store and bought things to make a salad.. I came home, ran, made dinner, went to the store to get more water, read a little bit of my book and now im just hangin out tomorrow is going to be a long day so I probably wont post anything.. I have classes until 4:30 and then Rachel and I are going out to dinner.. I wanna get chicken kiev again! We’re trying to plan things for our free time so that we keep busy- plus its really not fun being bored here and I actually try to avoid it at all costs..
It was kinda hard to fall asleep last night because people outside of our window were loading things into a truck? At 1:28 am??? Im telling you this place is pretty sketchy sometimes haha
The weather here has actually been really nice- today when I was running I could only do 25 mins  but I think its because im not used to having the sun on me like that- I know when I get home its gonna be like culture shock going from May-June weather here in SPB to JULY weather at home.. ohhhh I cant wait to come get a tan <3
Today when I was getting stuff for my salad I wanted to buy a pepper, a cucumber, and a kiwi.. well I only know the Russian word for kiwi (kivee) so I said to the lady (who probably thinks im a stupid American) zdrastvoyte, ya ne znayou slova… (hello, I don’t know the word) and just pointed to what I wanted.. ha! Those are the times when I feel worthless here but I think its funny at the same time.. I mean its all about growing here and being out of your comfort zone
Anyway I think that’s all for now so ill probably post on Wednesday

Love & miss
-M.


Happy Saturday 

I woke up at 2 pm today—but that’s because I didn’t go to bed until 7 am haha. We took the metro to meet joe and go to a club called “plaza” this place was supposed to be right on the water but we couldn’t find it so we asked 2 russian girls and they told us to go the other way..we walked and we still couldn’t find it so we asked a Russian waiter who told us plaza closed 4 years ago hahaha . there wasn’t anything really happening on our island because its pretty much the most boring island in SPB we flagged down a taxi and he told us about a club on nevsky prospect so we were like alright lets go.. we get there and theres a cover charge of 600 rubles (20$) and we were like ehhhh but we figured that’s what we would pay in the US to get in somewhere.. we get in and their playing awesome music! We all get drinks which let me just tell you that the Russians think a strawberry margarita (which it was on their menu and everything) is a lemon cosmopolitan thing LOL not to mention the price of it was 300 rubles (10$) ridiculous!!! Anyway the crowd there was pretty lame because everyone looked like they were between the ages of 16-18..so we sit and were just hangin out and we’re pretty disappointed that the club wasn’t that great but we decided to get up and make the best out of it and dance.. we got there around 12 and left a little after 3.. I was really sad that the club wasn’t that great but the music was AWESOMEE!! Jess you would have loved the music and I missed POLO’in it with ya! Haha

After we left the club we went to subway to eat- and we were just trying to pass the time by doing stuff because the metro didn’t open until 5:30am after we left subway it was like 4am and so we decided to go to some 24 hour book store and then to this other 24 hour restaurant where I got fruit and a scoop of ice cream! I have a picture of it. It was an awesome 5 am snack hahah after that we just got on the metro went home like zombies and passed out! Nothing like being awake for 24 hours
I probably shouldn’t have done that cause now I just wont be able to sleep tonight but I can try anyway I figure I had to do it once.. didn’t wanna disappoint my big bro haha

Ill probably just do nothing today because I spent way too much money last night.. I think Ill just watch a movie or something and just relax

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend
Love & miss.
-M.