LAURA IS FINE!!!!!! :P that what she tells my every time I ask her any question! he he he it's an internal joke... But we are doing great! today we safely arrive to St Petersburg and did nothing but chilling at the house we are staying at. The night train we took sucked out all our energy even though we slept like babies all way long. :) it was an esciting experience for Laura (since she has never taken a proper train), myself as Laura's tour guide and ppl around us, coz we were quite loud .
Tomorrow is a new day and we are looking forward to an advanturose trip around my favorite city, picking up Casey and maybe seeing Jenny later that day and her new very nice americna friends.
I did unfortunately skipped a couple of funny days we had in Moscow, but if I have time I'll write about it later so it will stay in my blog for a long memory..
Monday, July 16, 2007
Monday, July 09, 2007
the beginning of advanture
a day fullfilled with excitment, new feelings, advanture, random ppl, my dad's b-day, rain!, and pictures...
To start from the beginning, we did wake up late as it's been predicted, so our days started around noon... registration part brought me into frustration, but we postponed it till tomorrow, so taking the metro and going down-town was our main goal for today. First of all, I've conmbined smth I had to do (aka somewhere I had to drop by) with an interesting excursion around one of the oldest monastries down town. The amazing thing about it is that behind those thick walls no traffic noise is coming through and it's so peacefull and quite as we are somewhere in the subburbs. Moreover, except the interesting excursion we had around that holly place, we met a group of tourists from Buenos Aires there and with whom I tried to use the little spanish I know... but due to my shyness and the lack of time we had, I barely could say hi and bye. But that group of adult latinos followed us even to the resturant we stopped to have lunch in. Nice and very friendly people and absolutely out of nowhere.. But our tour was going on. After seeing the beauties of that monastry we realized that hunger was taking our last energy away, so we stopped at this lovely, quite cheep, but very russian place where we could have a decent lunch and not overpay since Moscow is very far from a cheep city.. That was the moment when the severe rain has started and scared a lot of ppl away.. we continued our trip to the Red Square, by the Historic Museum, by Lenins grave, went to the St Basilic church, followed by Alexander Garden and we ended our trip in the Cathedral of Crist the Savior. We choose to have a church day, because it required to have a special atire, so tomorrow we are looking forward to further exploration of Moscow :)
off to bed, coz the wine we had for my dad's b-day is getting me a bit :P
night-night
To start from the beginning, we did wake up late as it's been predicted, so our days started around noon... registration part brought me into frustration, but we postponed it till tomorrow, so taking the metro and going down-town was our main goal for today. First of all, I've conmbined smth I had to do (aka somewhere I had to drop by) with an interesting excursion around one of the oldest monastries down town. The amazing thing about it is that behind those thick walls no traffic noise is coming through and it's so peacefull and quite as we are somewhere in the subburbs. Moreover, except the interesting excursion we had around that holly place, we met a group of tourists from Buenos Aires there and with whom I tried to use the little spanish I know... but due to my shyness and the lack of time we had, I barely could say hi and bye. But that group of adult latinos followed us even to the resturant we stopped to have lunch in. Nice and very friendly people and absolutely out of nowhere.. But our tour was going on. After seeing the beauties of that monastry we realized that hunger was taking our last energy away, so we stopped at this lovely, quite cheep, but very russian place where we could have a decent lunch and not overpay since Moscow is very far from a cheep city.. That was the moment when the severe rain has started and scared a lot of ppl away.. we continued our trip to the Red Square, by the Historic Museum, by Lenins grave, went to the St Basilic church, followed by Alexander Garden and we ended our trip in the Cathedral of Crist the Savior. We choose to have a church day, because it required to have a special atire, so tomorrow we are looking forward to further exploration of Moscow :)
off to bed, coz the wine we had for my dad's b-day is getting me a bit :P
night-night
Sunday, July 08, 2007
the worlds crossing
Laura is here :) finally arrived! it's amazing how wierd and amazing to see her here. I'm very happy to be able to share my culture, to introduce her to another part of this planet... traveling and experience are the main ways to educated ourselves these days. I realize it by looking at myself even though I don't have that much behind my shoulders, but I have something to share and I'm glad to be able to help my roommie to get this valuable knowledge.. of course I'm nervious how things will go and of course it's hard to show everything, but tomorrow is our oficial start day and I'm hoping that she will have as much energy as she had today, the day she arrived.. we did manage to do some sightseeing and the weather helped us to complete this tast, so now, at 8 p.m. my friend is in a deep sleep on a new place.. time difference always brings troubles with it. But with her otimism and energy, with my protection and translation help and with our cameras, I'm sure her staying here will be enjoyable :)
peace
peace
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