Hello all!
I had a big day today. I woke up around 6am (I have insomnia in foreign cities) and decided to get ready. I plugged my curling iron into the converter, into the adapter and into the wall. After I turned it on I waited a few minutes, and then went to curl my hair to discover that my curling iron wasn't heating up and wouldn't turn on. After a minor panic attack I took the stupid converter off and just used the adapter. Ta-da! Like magic, it turned on. Any girl reading my blog can probably relate that the inability to do one's hair is a panic worthy event in most cases. The same thing happened to Shantel, and I told her what I did and she did the same thing and hers worked too.
Today (almost) all the other students arrived in Moscow in our hostel to join together as a group. (This also meant the really messy Australian people left. yippee!). So, because of my job, I got to be the creepy kid that knew everyone's name before they knew mine. We met with Julia and talked about the next two days, then took off towards a few touristy sights.
Walking around all day is exhausting. First, we went to a very old grocery store that has really beautiful architecture. Julia told us that the architecture and size of things really reflected how Stalin thought life should be. Some of the roads here have 9 lanes going across! This is very different than the streets in Spain, which seem abnormally small.
Here is a photo of the inside of the oldest grocery store in Moscow:
I had a big day today. I woke up around 6am (I have insomnia in foreign cities) and decided to get ready. I plugged my curling iron into the converter, into the adapter and into the wall. After I turned it on I waited a few minutes, and then went to curl my hair to discover that my curling iron wasn't heating up and wouldn't turn on. After a minor panic attack I took the stupid converter off and just used the adapter. Ta-da! Like magic, it turned on. Any girl reading my blog can probably relate that the inability to do one's hair is a panic worthy event in most cases. The same thing happened to Shantel, and I told her what I did and she did the same thing and hers worked too.
Today (almost) all the other students arrived in Moscow in our hostel to join together as a group. (This also meant the really messy Australian people left. yippee!). So, because of my job, I got to be the creepy kid that knew everyone's name before they knew mine. We met with Julia and talked about the next two days, then took off towards a few touristy sights.
Walking around all day is exhausting. First, we went to a very old grocery store that has really beautiful architecture. Julia told us that the architecture and size of things really reflected how Stalin thought life should be. Some of the roads here have 9 lanes going across! This is very different than the streets in Spain, which seem abnormally small.
Here is a photo of the inside of the oldest grocery store in Moscow:
After that, we made our way to Red Square. This is where several big sights are in Moscow, including the MGU, Lenin's tomb, the Kremlin, and St. Basil's Cathedral, the candy looking cathedral with the colorful domes and turrets. I also saw where Putin addresses the public, but no sign of the big man himself. MGU is a giant mall that is very expensive, but also beautiful. It puts City Center to shame.
Here is me at St. Basil's. It's really beautiful and neat.
This is the man who founded Moscow. I can't remember his name as Julia only mentioned it to us in passing.
Beautiful building..
Cosmonaut food! We ate at a Soviet Style buffet today. I purchased Cold beet soup with sour cream, a carrot and apple salad, and a peroshok with cabbage. I tried to describe them in my last post, but here is a picture of the inside with the cabbage. The other ones I have eaten have been more full, but I think the photo gets the point across.
nom.
St. Basil's up close.
A beautiful picture of the other cathedral, Christ the Savior from across the Moscow river on a big bridge.
Soviet ice cream-- everyone has been telling us to eat Soviet ice cream, so we finally found some.
It was like frozen creamy frosting. Delicious and only about 75 cents.
A georgian food that Shantel and I shared. It's fried dough with cherries in the middle with sugar and cinnamon on top.
After this we went to Treteyakov gallery, a giant art museum open to the public. Because we were using student discounted tickets, we had to pretend to be Russian, so as Julia was handing out tickets she said, "Act Russian! Don't smile!" and it made all of us have the giggles. It was interesting and had some beautiful pieces, though I was so tired I really couldn't appreciate them all.
Well all, I'm going to leave you for now. It's been an exhausting day. i will update more later.
love!
Kelli
p.s. Talk about terrifying, can you guess what this is?
If you guessed the WHEELCHAIR RAMPS available all over the city, you're right! Can you imagine flying down one of these? Scary, I tell you.
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