Different sorts of spring rambling
Today is feeling very un-Moscow, and I'm acting a bit not-Scotlike, and it's great. You friends currently in the US with your 80 degree temperatues may laugh at me, but the 5 months I've been here have been almost entirely winter, so my basic definition of what "Moscow" means includes "cold" and "dark."
In college in Minnesota, this would have been the day that the entire student body skipped class and played frisbee on the lawn in our shorts, just because we could.
At the moment, I'm sitting in a T-shirt with the balcony door open, nice breeze blowing in. It's about 55 out there. I hardly know how to handle this.
Woke up at 8, which is ridiculously early for me, and now that we're past the equinox, the sun has started to shine in through the bedroom window in the morning. That's nice to wake up to.
Went out for a morning walk -- another thing I never do, but couldn't resist, it being so nice out. Took the metro down to Sparrow Hills and walked along the river, zigzagged up through the trees to the hilltop. All winter, the only birds we ever saw in Moscow were these grey and black crows. Heard lots of sparrows in the woods today, and even a woodpecker.
Then walked across the Moscow State University campus which this time was packed with students. Interesting people watching. Got myself lunch from "Wonder Bliny."
I'm liking this.
In college in Minnesota, this would have been the day that the entire student body skipped class and played frisbee on the lawn in our shorts, just because we could.
At the moment, I'm sitting in a T-shirt with the balcony door open, nice breeze blowing in. It's about 55 out there. I hardly know how to handle this.
Woke up at 8, which is ridiculously early for me, and now that we're past the equinox, the sun has started to shine in through the bedroom window in the morning. That's nice to wake up to.
Went out for a morning walk -- another thing I never do, but couldn't resist, it being so nice out. Took the metro down to Sparrow Hills and walked along the river, zigzagged up through the trees to the hilltop. All winter, the only birds we ever saw in Moscow were these grey and black crows. Heard lots of sparrows in the woods today, and even a woodpecker.
Then walked across the Moscow State University campus which this time was packed with students. Interesting people watching. Got myself lunch from "Wonder Bliny."
I'm liking this.