Number of Steps: 20057 (6.33 mi)
This morning I woke up at 6:30 am to head over to Starbucks for a
7:00am skype date with my parents…only to discover that Starbucks doesn’t open
until 8:00 on Sundays. BLARGH. So, I headed back to the dorm to attempt
skyping, but the connection there is lousy, so we decided to wait until 8:00
(10:00pm their time). Long story short:
I could have slept an extra hour on my one day off. Oh well.
It was really good to talk to my parents once we finally got around to
it.
At 10:00 most of the group gathered to head off to the Moscow
river for a two hour boat right that was just plain lovely. There were snacks and beer and JT had his
leisurely cigar…and we were blissful in our complete lack of any sort of
responsibility for those two hours. It
was a really nice way to spend a morning.
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| I have this same picture from last year. Hooray for boats, beer and beautiful cathedrals! |
Then I hopped back on the metro in my den mother/cruise director
capacity to grab some tickets for a few of us to see Three Sisters at the Современник
(Sovremenik – which means “contemporary”) tonight.
The woman in the box office was not nearly so pleasant as my friend at
the Taganka, but I was still successful – returning with tickets that were HALF
the price of what the website said was available. Take that, interwebs!
Then it was back to the dorm for a little down time before the
show. I probably should have done some
actual work or something, but I just couldn’t quite motivate any brain
activity, so I tried to nap, I played stupid card games…and then it was time to
meet up for the show. So we trucked back
over to the theatre – running a little behind schedule, but we made it. It ended up being a really straightforward,
but really lovely show. I knew the story
enough and recognized enough words to really understand most of the show (and
speaking of recognizing words, I definitely gave a Russian woman directions to
the theatre when I heard her asking for directions outside of the metro
station…do I get my Russian citizenship yet?)
It was performed on a raked stage that was also a turntable, so there
were some really cool effects, and there was a huge bridge that arched over the
front of the stage that they used very well for a lot of the heightened moments
of the play. It was a very romantic,
very “Russian” interpretation of the play, and I really dug it. On our way out, a young woman and her mother
introduced themselves to us – they said we were pretty obviously American, and
they just wanted to chat, welcome us, see how we liked the show, etc. Super sweet people! It was one of many such encounters that many
of us have been having this year. Just
another reason we all want to just go ahead and stay.
Then it was back on the metro and back to the dorm for some vodka
and blogging. Note: our freezer is
stupid cold…my vodka was actually SOLID.
How often do you have to thaw your booze?
Long story short…today was a good day, and I look forward to my
attitude improving throughout the week.
Now it’s back to studying videos of my niece being adorable in
preparation for my etude. Life is hard.
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