First of all today, I want to apologize if yesterday's post made it sound like I'm unhappy, or not having fun. That was not my intention at all, and I was just letting off a little steam over a few things that were bugging me yesterday, but nothing to worry about, I promise. :)
Anyway, today was, as you might imagine by now, much like yesterday. Part of the problem with doing daily posts like this is that there is not always a wealth of information to divulge. However, I suspect that things will pick up on the weekends, for those of you that want to read more than me blathering about my school day. Unfortunately, now that I actually have homework and stuff to do, I don't do a lot during the week, so your best bet for more action-packed tales is probably going to be the weekend, when we take our group field trips out to different places. This weekend we will be going to Ekaterina's Palace in Pushkin, a suburb of St. Pete. I am anticipating wonderful things, and I'm very excited.
As far as today is concerned, I went to class as usual, though Wednesdays are a little different than other days. Rather than be separated into groups, we meet as one group first for a lecture on a given topic, and then for choir practice. Today's lecture was on the mindset of Russia and Russians as a society, and why things are so very different here. It really was an enlightening experience. We discussed why so many Russians (a little over 30%) when asked in a poll what period in Russian history they were most proud of, answered with some period within the Soviet period. Honestly, it would be impossible to explain here, but it really was very interesting. Choir practice is likewise fairly impossible to explain or expound upon, given that it is just singing, and so I won't go into any more detail than that.
After class, I headed home with a few of the others through the flat-out nasty St. Petersburg rain, trying to keep my umbrella from flipping inside-out because of the rain. Once I got home, I changed my wet clothes, checked emails, and took a very long nap, at the end of which I felt infinitely better. Then Anna came and got me to go down to the cafeteria for dinner with her and Bart. It passed much as usual, and now I'm back here. A little more time on the computer, shower, then bed. Rinse, repeat. ;)
See you tomorrow!
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