Two weeks down

Still no pictures, sorry people. Just know that I'm stocking up on them! This week was pretty boring, I got sick on Saturday and my family wouldn't let me leave the house at all for 2 days, but they gave me warm milk with honey and chicken broth and gave me movies to watch so I wouldn't be bored. Then Sunday night Yelena's dad had a stroke, so they've spent the week going out and staying with him, I feel like I'm kind of being a burden, they feel like they have to come home and feed me. But they are so sweet. I'm gonna get them lots of flowers.

Then it was back to teaching. Monday was bad enough, I didn't have much of a voice and was congested, which meant a more chaos in my level 5 class, and I don't even want to remember Tuesday, I had a pounding headache that night. Seriously wondered how I would survive 3 months of this! Then Wednesday was awesome, really, the kids were paying attention and working with me and I think they actually learned something! And Thursday only 3 of the boys came, which cut WAY down on the chaos. Of course Zhenya still spouts off in Russian every other minute, he really doesn't want to be there. Actually, the class reminded me of trying to teach Jon, Chris, and Matt. The kid like Matt is Ilya, adorable and very smart, but you have to keep his attention.

Wednesday night Megan got here, so all the teachers are here now. We had a little party for her, stayed up late at Nicole's house watching a Chinese art film, and ended up crashing over here cause it was too late to walk home. Today a bunch of us went shopping and I got some good boots :) Right now Sveta is here and we're learning how to make blini (crepes). Exciting! Tomorrow we're going to see the gardens in Peterhof, we'll see the inside later in the year, when outside is all frozen. Then next weekend we're going to Moscow for a couple days, apparently if we're there for more than 2 we have to register or something. And Masha wrote me back saying I have to come visit, so now I just have to convince 2 other teachers to come with me....