So, very exciting news... Eva and I have moved into our new flat! Well, in fact we had very little choice in the matter. Our babushka pretty much kicked us out with an evening’s notice! Eva and I got home from a friend’s house where he hosts a film club and suddenly the babushka asked us when we were moving out. We told her that we planned to go at the end of the month, which would have been Friday. This was apparently unacceptable! She told us that we had to move out the next evening (which was Monday!) and that after that it was over! I have to live my life too and if you two are leaving then I want you out tomorrow! I was just in shock, so it was all very funny at the time! So, on Monday, Eva and I trekked back for the last time to her house, made ourselves a nice cup of tea and sat patiently waiting for our taxi! Our new house is lovely and we are so much happier here! No nagging babushka, internet and a really nice flatmate!
On Tuesday night, we explored our surroundings a bit and found this gigantic supermarket which is spread over two floors of a shopping centre and has everything that you could ever desire from pickled anything to mobile phones and from ice-skates to power tools. Also something that I got really excited about was that they have dispensers where you can weigh out your own tea, coffee, cereal, rice, sweets... I enjoyed it!
On Saturday, a small group of us had agreed to meet our literature teacher to go to one of the Pushkin museums. She had organised for us to have a tour of the museum which was really great and it was really interesting... they even had a posthumous mask that was made and lock of his hair. Bit creepy! After the museum, we walked to a little Georgian restaurant and had lunch together. It was really delicious food: a salad followed by a broth with rice and then meatballs with boiled potatoes. Yummy! We then walked to where Pushkin used to live and then all had a drink together in a lovely little French cafe! In the evening two friends and I went to go and see The Queen of Spades. It is a short story written by Pushkin about a man who never gambles though is fascinated with card games. One day he finds out that an old crazy woman knows of three cards which are always guaranteed to win. He is driven mad by this and eventually kills the old woman. Anyway, I thought it was very good. The set was brilliant, very detailed and the costumes were fantastic!
So today is Sunday... never really an interesting day! Done lots of homework. I also gave Eva a restyle: cut her hair and dyed it very dark brown almost black. It looks really nice and suits her dark colouring well! Now that people know that I cut hair everyone wants to book in an appointment! I should start charging a pint a haircut!
Anyway... I’m off to buy myself a coat tomorrow as it is already bloody cold here! Apparently it is uncharacteristically cold for October, so that doesn’t really bode well for the coming winter then. Oh dear, I’m starting to get very worried! I bought a coat last week and then after one wear on Saturday realised that it was no way near enough! So, that is being returned and I am hoping to buy something warm and nice. This may well be a problem as the big thing here is shiny black duffle coats with an elasticted waist. Not exactly my style!
Lots of love to you all
X x x x x
On Tuesday night, we explored our surroundings a bit and found this gigantic supermarket which is spread over two floors of a shopping centre and has everything that you could ever desire from pickled anything to mobile phones and from ice-skates to power tools. Also something that I got really excited about was that they have dispensers where you can weigh out your own tea, coffee, cereal, rice, sweets... I enjoyed it!
On Saturday, a small group of us had agreed to meet our literature teacher to go to one of the Pushkin museums. She had organised for us to have a tour of the museum which was really great and it was really interesting... they even had a posthumous mask that was made and lock of his hair. Bit creepy! After the museum, we walked to a little Georgian restaurant and had lunch together. It was really delicious food: a salad followed by a broth with rice and then meatballs with boiled potatoes. Yummy! We then walked to where Pushkin used to live and then all had a drink together in a lovely little French cafe! In the evening two friends and I went to go and see The Queen of Spades. It is a short story written by Pushkin about a man who never gambles though is fascinated with card games. One day he finds out that an old crazy woman knows of three cards which are always guaranteed to win. He is driven mad by this and eventually kills the old woman. Anyway, I thought it was very good. The set was brilliant, very detailed and the costumes were fantastic!
So today is Sunday... never really an interesting day! Done lots of homework. I also gave Eva a restyle: cut her hair and dyed it very dark brown almost black. It looks really nice and suits her dark colouring well! Now that people know that I cut hair everyone wants to book in an appointment! I should start charging a pint a haircut!
Anyway... I’m off to buy myself a coat tomorrow as it is already bloody cold here! Apparently it is uncharacteristically cold for October, so that doesn’t really bode well for the coming winter then. Oh dear, I’m starting to get very worried! I bought a coat last week and then after one wear on Saturday realised that it was no way near enough! So, that is being returned and I am hoping to buy something warm and nice. This may well be a problem as the big thing here is shiny black duffle coats with an elasticted waist. Not exactly my style!
Lots of love to you all
X x x x x
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