part 2 of my adventures in St. Petersburg
So I'm at this amazing coffeehouse right now because I wanted wifi reeeeeeally badly. And food is good too. You know. I do need to eat. I am so in love with this farmer's cheese stuff now it's not even funny.
Today we took one of those super touristy bus tours around the city, so now I have a better overview of ttthe entire city and not just the island I live on. More importantly, I found the giant shopping center. ^__^ I am totally going there once my pictures finish uploading and I finish my giant latte. I'm drinking it through a straw. hehehe. I suppose I kind of blend in here. As long as I don't start talking. I haven't been stopped by the police yet in any case. That's a very good thing. There are police all over the island I live on (and some here near the city center) because there's some international forum thing going and world leaders are here, so police have been stopping a lot of people to ask for their papers. A few people in our group have been stopped multiple times. Oh. And today is graduation day for the students at the naval academy. They had a graduation ceremony in front of the winter palace this morning where they got mini-sword-dagger-things instead of diplomas. And they were wearing super adorable sailor suits. XD I think today is some sort of other festival too. I'm not entirely sure what for. There's going to be fireworks tonight and everything. So it's around 1:45 and I need to figure out what I'm going to do for the rest of today/tomorrow. I want to go see a ballet or something, but I also want to find someone to go with me. I also need to find a bus map. Right now I'm kind of just telling my host family where I want to go and saying "Which bus?" (I would put that in Russian, but I'm using my dad's netbook now and I don't know how to write in cyrillic on it.)
Back to me blending in. The key to that, I think, is walking around with a cell phone headset in at least one ear. I feel like EVERYONE here uses their cell phone headsets. Even the cheapest phones like the one I got includes an FM radio. And the radio stations here are AMAZING. There are multiple dance stations and they play a good mix of English and Russian songs. And some French. And this morning the one I was listening to played "Bye Bye Bye." I kind of spazzed out in the square in front of the winter palace. Just a little.
I don't know what else to write about so ask me questions! XD
Today we took one of those super touristy bus tours around the city, so now I have a better overview of ttthe entire city and not just the island I live on. More importantly, I found the giant shopping center. ^__^ I am totally going there once my pictures finish uploading and I finish my giant latte. I'm drinking it through a straw. hehehe. I suppose I kind of blend in here. As long as I don't start talking. I haven't been stopped by the police yet in any case. That's a very good thing. There are police all over the island I live on (and some here near the city center) because there's some international forum thing going and world leaders are here, so police have been stopping a lot of people to ask for their papers. A few people in our group have been stopped multiple times. Oh. And today is graduation day for the students at the naval academy. They had a graduation ceremony in front of the winter palace this morning where they got mini-sword-dagger-things instead of diplomas. And they were wearing super adorable sailor suits. XD I think today is some sort of other festival too. I'm not entirely sure what for. There's going to be fireworks tonight and everything. So it's around 1:45 and I need to figure out what I'm going to do for the rest of today/tomorrow. I want to go see a ballet or something, but I also want to find someone to go with me. I also need to find a bus map. Right now I'm kind of just telling my host family where I want to go and saying "Which bus?" (I would put that in Russian, but I'm using my dad's netbook now and I don't know how to write in cyrillic on it.)
Back to me blending in. The key to that, I think, is walking around with a cell phone headset in at least one ear. I feel like EVERYONE here uses their cell phone headsets. Even the cheapest phones like the one I got includes an FM radio. And the radio stations here are AMAZING. There are multiple dance stations and they play a good mix of English and Russian songs. And some French. And this morning the one I was listening to played "Bye Bye Bye." I kind of spazzed out in the square in front of the winter palace. Just a little.
I don't know what else to write about so ask me questions! XD