Wednesday, May 26, 2010

St. Petersburg: Day 4

Well, now that I'm not trying to catch up with multiple days, hopefully I can go into more detail about specific occurrences, though I'm sure that these posts will be more brief, just because there isn't as much information to cover.

First of all, I need to do a reverse phone search for the number that called me last night on my AT&T SIM card. Since my phone has suddenly decided while we're here that it should beep every 2 minutes when it is on the charger, and I didn't want my roommates to murder me in my sleep, I decided to get out my old phone so that I could turn the other one off. I would have just left it off with the alarm set, but I didn't trust the auto power on function and couldn't afford to risk missing class. Well, all was well and good until I get a text message from AT&T telling me that from June 1 on, I would have to dial the area code. Whatever. Then I get a call at 3AM from a number that appears now to dial back to a fax machine. I certainly hope I don't get charged for that. Then, this morning, somehow I forget that turning the phone off doesn't turn the alarm off, and my poor roommates are subjected to a minute or two of AT&T ringtones before I run back to get it. Not a great start to the day.

When I get outside, I realize that I really should have worn a heavier coat, since it is freezing, windy, and rainy. We make it to the school in one piece, and have a lecture on political life in Russia today. I can hardly keep my eyes open and at one point actually fall asleep, though my neighbor helpfully elbowed me to wake me up before the teacher noticed. I felt so bad!! I really didn't mean to. Then we had music class which went much better, since I got food and such. It was actually really, really fun.

Then Anna, Bart, Benny and I went home with a few others from the group, and took a nap almost immediately. I slept till about 1700, then got up to go help cook dinner in the boys' room. We had chicken teriyaki. The boys went to an interpretive dance show, but Anna and I were too tired to go, so we stayed behind and hung out with Emily. Then we did the dishes, and here I am! So not too much to go into today.

See you tomorrow!

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