Success!

Success! Today I bought - on my own - a monthly transport card for the trolley busses which I will be taking to school and around from now on! In Russian with very little confusion on the part of the poor metro worker! So now I don't have to worry about having 18 rubles all the time for the bus! Just wanted to share that little bit of excitement with you all!

Last night after dinner, my host mom and brother (skateboard and all) and I went to the big grocery store by our apartment to get slippers (tapochki, in russian) for me and Pasha and some other things too - like fish! Which we are having for dinner tonight, baked apparently, and I'm very excited she put it in some marinade last night. Anyways, the store was interesting to look at and Pasha and I talked quite a bit which was really cool. After fish dinner tonight I'm going to make blini again. And we are talking about going to the circus this weekend which would be all kinds of fun!

Ok sorry about the fleeting and random nature of this short post, just had my laptop and wanted to let you know of my success! :-)

More traditional post (and hopefully a random observations part two, including my thoughts on earmuffs in September) will be coming later this week, either Thursday or Friday depending on when I bring my laptop to school and when I want to go wandering through the city while not carrying it. In any event, it will be soon! Thanks for stopping by to read, and will see you again soon! All my love from Russia - beth