INTERNET CAFE!!

Hi all

couldnt sleep last night. my intentions were to be asleep by 12:30- 1 am but nights are really hard for me. all these thoughts going through my head and their mainly about home and the people there.. i mean the days i can distract myself from being away but nights are just really really hard.. ugh..

i took the metro to nevsky prospect yesterday (by the way the escalators in the metro stations- your on it for like 10 mins lol) i really like it there because there are alot of people, alot of shops and resturants, and pretty buildings to see.. i have still yet to figure out a way to upload my pics to these comps. in the internet cafes but just be patient ill figure something out.

some interesting things before i forget:
-there are wild dogs that just walk around!
-everyone here has like a prepaid phone- there are little machines every so often at a shop or by the metro where you can add money to your card.. cool huh?

so as i was walking around nevsky yesterday i talked to so many russian people (the employees in the shops of course - not strangers) and its nice that i have enough words that i know where i can get my point across but when they reply (so fast) i try to understand and sometimes i do but mostly i just smile and say spaseeba (thank you). i wish you could have seen me in this one cosmetic store trying to find a blow dryer (impossible to find here!) i said to the woman ya nada .. (i need..) ya gavareet pa rooski ploka (i speak russian badly).. so then i said in english HAIR DRYER and made my had into the shape of a gun almost and went "SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" (like the sound the blow dryer makes) and put it against my hair hahaha she thought i wanted shampoo.. then i was making hand motions like OK you know how you have a curling iron and twisted my hair in my finger and you know how you have a straightner and pulled my hair straight.. then i just gave up bc she didnt understand what i was trying to find.. i dont understand why its so hard to find things here i mean you would think a blow dryer is something everyone uses.

well since i didnt fall asleep until around 4:30 am last night i woke up around 11:40 am (so did my roomie) so we went running and then came back to the room to eat brunch (also conserving money lol) and we met up with peter to come to the internet cafe and go to the grocery store. we all pretty much decided we should cook food instead of buying out all the time.. that would be healthier anyway.. OH i tried a few russian dumplings last night. they were pretty good they had some type of meat in them i guess it was pork or beef- maybe both but they were pretty good they reminded me of tortellini..

so my plan for today is to do some necessary shopping and read some books that im supposed to have read for class (starts tomorrow) hopefully ill be exhausted at the end of the day so that i can sleep tonight.. thats my goal as long as im exhausted at the end of the day and i dont have to think then thats good!

alright see ya later
-M.