moscow
moscow was insane!! i have a runny nose and keep sneezing... gross.
today is my last day at work. i have about 20 pages to edit by the end of the day and i also have to finish editing the database, and do the metatags for the new and improved train section. so lots of work to do and so little time to do it.
moscow was filled with rain, urine, high winds, a runny nose, but no lenin. i'm so sad i didn't see lenin's corpse but the first day we got there too late. they told us to come back before 1:00 the next day, but the next day the line was so long...and they stoppped letting people in at like 12:00 anyways. so no lenin.
anyways, the train ride was kinda hellish. marina and i had two beds in a 4 person coupe. our neighbors were an older married couple. they were nice and offered us yogurt. the bathroom in the train had more urine on the floor than i had ever seen in my life. and no water came out of the sink. we got to moscow saturday at 10AM and took the metro to our apartment (Paul let us stay at his apartment for 1 night!).
there we took a shower and went to red square.
afterwards, we went shopping, visited some hills that were far from the city center in order to see a great view of the city and took a chair lift back down the hill, and walked around tverskaya (moscow's main street) and saw lots of prostitutes.
it was freezing outside and rainy. i got sick.
sunday we again went to red square to see lenin...but the square was closed.
we walked around the arabat, saw some important church (i forgot the name...i've seen too many), but this church was destroyed during the revolution and turned into a pool during soviet times. so it's been recently renovated.
went to victory park and hung out there.
we also took a 2 hour long boat ride on the moscow river. pretty cool b/c i saw the entire city.
my favorite thing about moscow was the 7 stalinesque buildings...the tallest ones that the city has. they are called stalin buildings b/c they were all built in the 50s under stalin's rule and they are all so soviet looking. but they are really beautiful. i'll try to find a picture and post it here.
we sat around at some cute little bar on sunday night...until we had to run home, pack, and run to the train station to make our train at 1:45 AM.
i was exhausted. got back to st. pete at 10:00 AM and i was suppose to go straight to work, but i couldn't. my nose was out of control and i felt like crap. went home and passed out.
my nose is still insane, but i had to come to work to finish everything up.
tomorrow i'm gonna catch the chagall exhibit and the state russian museum and then i pack. i might have to see aiesec tomorrow as well, and tanya keeps telling me i have to visit her home and have tea with her. that might happen tonight. i also want to spend time with landlady...i'm gonna miss her.
but i'm excited to be coming home! i hope this nose situation goes away before my flight home, b/c that's the worst...flying when your sinuses are all stuffed.
today is my last day at work. i have about 20 pages to edit by the end of the day and i also have to finish editing the database, and do the metatags for the new and improved train section. so lots of work to do and so little time to do it.
moscow was filled with rain, urine, high winds, a runny nose, but no lenin. i'm so sad i didn't see lenin's corpse but the first day we got there too late. they told us to come back before 1:00 the next day, but the next day the line was so long...and they stoppped letting people in at like 12:00 anyways. so no lenin.
anyways, the train ride was kinda hellish. marina and i had two beds in a 4 person coupe. our neighbors were an older married couple. they were nice and offered us yogurt. the bathroom in the train had more urine on the floor than i had ever seen in my life. and no water came out of the sink. we got to moscow saturday at 10AM and took the metro to our apartment (Paul let us stay at his apartment for 1 night!).
there we took a shower and went to red square.
afterwards, we went shopping, visited some hills that were far from the city center in order to see a great view of the city and took a chair lift back down the hill, and walked around tverskaya (moscow's main street) and saw lots of prostitutes.
it was freezing outside and rainy. i got sick.
sunday we again went to red square to see lenin...but the square was closed.
we walked around the arabat, saw some important church (i forgot the name...i've seen too many), but this church was destroyed during the revolution and turned into a pool during soviet times. so it's been recently renovated.
went to victory park and hung out there.
we also took a 2 hour long boat ride on the moscow river. pretty cool b/c i saw the entire city.
my favorite thing about moscow was the 7 stalinesque buildings...the tallest ones that the city has. they are called stalin buildings b/c they were all built in the 50s under stalin's rule and they are all so soviet looking. but they are really beautiful. i'll try to find a picture and post it here.
we sat around at some cute little bar on sunday night...until we had to run home, pack, and run to the train station to make our train at 1:45 AM.
i was exhausted. got back to st. pete at 10:00 AM and i was suppose to go straight to work, but i couldn't. my nose was out of control and i felt like crap. went home and passed out.
my nose is still insane, but i had to come to work to finish everything up.
tomorrow i'm gonna catch the chagall exhibit and the state russian museum and then i pack. i might have to see aiesec tomorrow as well, and tanya keeps telling me i have to visit her home and have tea with her. that might happen tonight. i also want to spend time with landlady...i'm gonna miss her.
but i'm excited to be coming home! i hope this nose situation goes away before my flight home, b/c that's the worst...flying when your sinuses are all stuffed.