Yesterday, we went to the Museum of the Revolution. Well, from what I understand, that is now called a modern history museum or whatnot. Pretty neat... its in the former English Club, a gentleman's social club much of Moscow's nineteenth-century elite belonged to. Quite pretty. We had a very nice, nerdy tour guide... very knowledgeable. It was helpful to have him, else we'd have no idea what we were looking at. However, we only had a few hours there, and it is a massive museum (something true of both museums I've seen here), so we didn't have time to wander and look at the random little things after he had given us the tour and described the major things. In fact, we had to skip from WWII to the 1980's : (. Also, being a man, he focused mostly on the battleships and weapons, and I wanted to look at the clothing and photographs of the royal family. Although they did have the gun that supposedly killed the last tsar. I wanted to ask if it was true that bullets bounced off of the tsarina and Grand Duchesses because of the jewelry sewn into their clothing, but I didn't have a chance. I wish we had had more time to wander.
Last night, as always, I had difficulty getting to sleep. So, when I had to get up at 7:30am for my 9am seminar class, I was not pleased. As a result, everyone was pretty annoyed when there was some confusion and the professor forgot to show up. You mean we could have gone out last night/slept in? Well, I went home and took a nap. Bad idea. It is more or less impossible to get out of bed when it is literally freezing outside.
I finally bit the bullet and joined the Russian Lit class here, and I love it! The professor is very knowledgeable, and pretty funny.
Also, I re-taped my windows again. In hopes that I won't die in my sleep.
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