McDonalds

Well, it finally happened….we, the Americans, found ourselves in McDonalds.  At home in the US, there is nothing about McDonalds that is appealing to me.  Except for the ice cream.  And occasionally the coffee.  But after being in Russia for just over a month, my friends and I found ourselves in this very same place.

My friend really wanted French fries, and I found myself with a slight craving for ice cream (which I found kind of odd because I was quite cold at the time) and we decided to do the one thing that, in the beginning of September at orientation when they told us that going to McDonalds might help curb some of the culture shock stress, we swore we would never do.

McDonalds here is really really popular, which I found kind of funny.  It was completely packed when we went around lunch time.  Like you pushed past people and there were no open tables packed.  And this was a pretty big place, too.  It’s different from McDonalds at home.  It had a separate area like a fancy McDonalds coffee shop where it appeared that people were having business meetings.  And there was even a McDonalds security guard, which definitely made me laugh when I realized this!  (I was tempted to take a picture, but I was slightly afraid of what he would do….he was that legit.)

The ice cream ended up being ok.  Not as good as ice cream from home, but definitely better than no ice cream at all!  The French fries, on the other hand, tasted almost exactly the same.

Well, that’s about it for now.  We’re headed off to Kaliningrad on a group trip for a few days.  Actually, we’ll be leaving in about 45 minutes (which, for those of you keeping track, will be about 12:30 in the am.  After having an early class this morning, I’m barely awake right now!)  So, I’ll be back next week with a post and hopefully some amazing pictures from that random little part of Russia that’s separated from the whole big country by those little Baltic States.