So this entry is for the week of 12 -18 oктябрь (October 12th-18th). Here are some highlights from last week. I talked to Phillip and we established two things: We Americans are not going to school on Thanksgiving (what day is that anyway?...) and we're not going to school on Christmas (they have a different Christmas in January. Idk if they have vacation around the 25th at all). We want to try and together with everyone in Krasnodar. We'll see what actually goes down.
In school, I'm running into some difficulty in my Russian lessons because, I understand how to do what my teacher is teaching me (for instance, I understand I need this ending for this case and this ending for that case) But I can't always understand the concept because the Russian doesn't make sense in English. Like, I can't easily translate it. And when this happens I have to base to anchor the concept to and its just a bunch of random Russian case endings and verb conjugations floating around in my head and I don't really understand it. I'm glad that Olya is here. Otherwise, I would have no one to ask what this computes to in English and I would be totally lost!
Hmmm, what other random stuff can I tell... All the little girls wear this cutest white bows that are about the size of their faces. I have some pictures of my little cousin wearing one. They're so cute! When you buy bottles of soda at the story, they sometimes have straws in them. This makes me so happy for some reason! I love my cooking class but the teacher doesn't speak English at all and she doesn't try and talk to me in Russian and when she does she doesn't speak very simply so I don't understand. This makes the class kinda awkward. She doesn't seem interested in me. Like when I tell her what ingredients are in English, she says Shannon I don't understand and I'm like, I know you don't understand that's why I'm telling you! You're teaching me Russian I thought you'd like to learn some English maybe. It's just kinda awkward and kinda hurts a little you know? Umm, what else. I think it's funny that everyone thinks what I'm doing is so fascinating. The students are always looking at what I'm writing or asking to look at my things. I don't mind most of the time. I just think it's kinda funny.
Oh yeah, I had to translate some stuff for a business! Like it was all offical like and I had no idea what they wanted and I was so afraid I was going to mess up so I was stressing out and it was crazy! This business lady just shows up in my English class and my English teacher asked me to stay and help. But I really didn't do anything because I don't know Russian well enough to do a lot of translating. But I got 100 rubles out of it so that was kinda cool! hahaha
Okay, and then the biggest highlight was Krasnodar on Saturday. There was an AFS party and we had to bake a native dish, so I made chocolate chip cookies! It was also a birthday party for Phillip. For a present, I made him a slide show that made fun of all the awkward situations that we have been
in since we've been in Russia it was awesome. He loved it because it was homemade and showed I put a lot of effort into it. The only thing is I went with Andrea and we arrived late so most of the food had been presented and eaten and Phillip had opened all of his presents already. But that wasn't that big of a deal. I stayed the night with the family I stayed with when I came to Krasnodar when I first arrived in Russia. The next day, I went for a walk with some AFS volunteers and some of the AFS students. We went to an exhibition about Putin and a small art gallery. Then we ate a cafe before going to the Galleria, which is a really big mall. But the stores there were pretty high end and most of the stuff was kinda expensive. You'd be surprised Russia isn't as cheap as you would think. In this picture, we're all around this statue. If you touch the nose, it's supposed to bring you good luck! Let's hope it works!
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