Well. Today was one of my two days without class. I woke up to meet everyone at the metro for a mystery excursion. We ended up going to Red Square to see the history museum there. I got to see the domes of St. Basil's, but it was too damn cold to really go everywhere else.
The museum was really quite interesting. I'm obviously going not going to list everything I saw there... most history museums contain roughly the same things. This one happened to have considerably more quantities of gold, military uniforms, and illuminated manuscripts than your average museum. I was really impressed by the illuminated manuscripts. All in all, it was an absolutely amazing museum.
Note to those going abroad: bring packing tape. There is no weatherstripping around my windows, and I cannot find tape ANYWHERE, so I pretty much freeze to death. I got ID'd buying vodka, which was weird. Also, don't bring an American hair dryer. Mine fried, but I was able to buy a travel one from Ashan for $9.
Stephanie and I had an adventure making out way home from Ashan. We got on one of the little bus/van things we took to the metro station. The driver passed the university, even though his stop list included the university. We finally pointed out to him that we lived back at the university. He brought us to the library across the street, and insisted that we hadn't paid him. Apparently he forgot we had gotten on at the metro. When we made it to the larger entrance, at around 7pm, it had already closed up for the night. So we had to walk around the building together in the FREEZING weather. Fun.
Went to the internet cafe with the rest of the Americans, and have spent the past few hours hanging out, doing homework, and generally chilling. I guess tomorrow is Valentine's Day, so Greg, Chris, and I are going out... no class Tuesday.
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