Purple Hair and Platforms

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Tanya made me bliny today for breakfast and I was so happy!!  They were absolutely amazing and it was a great way to start the day!  She served them with cherries and also tvorog.  Eating tvorog is like eating the insides of a cheesecake….same consistency and taste.  Remember how before I said that the apples were my favorite thing that I’ve eaten since I arrived?  Well, this topped the apples, or at least tied them for first 

place.

Today was my first official day of school.  I had three classes from 10:15am to 4pm.  (It sometimes takes me a while to figure out the times here because they use a 24-hour clock, so I have to stop and think.)  I understood maybe 2-3 percent of what was said, which was really frustrating.  I had a hard enough time with Russian grammar in English, but Russian grammar in Russian?  Forget about it!  My teacher for phonetics was quite interesting and I think that it will be a better time than the grammar class.  I didn’t realize it at first, but I think she has purple hair.  I mean, not screaming purple, but you know the kind of blackish hair dye that gives your hair a purple tint?  This hair had a lot of purple tint!  The teacher for my politics class is also a lively lady.  She came stomping in wearing about 5 inch platform heels and when she wrote on the chalkboard, I thought it was going to fall off of the wall.  Luckily, when talking about politics, 

there are a lot of cognates, so I could kind of get the just of what was going on.

Also, I purposely walked back to my apartment from the train station today, unlike yesterday when I kind of had to.  The weather was the nicest that it has been since I got her….sunny and a comfortable temperature.  The perfect fall day, except for that it isn’t quite fall yet.  It took me about half an hour, and I was able to walk off dinner before Tanya even fed me. haha

The view out of my window on the sixth floor.