Almost done!

I'm almost done with school!

I only have 3 weeks left of school and then off to St. Petersburg. Kazan was great, lots of monasteries and mosques and cathedrals. It was really interesting and fun. There was a dog that followed us around the whole city during the tour it was pretty funny. Next week we're going to the circus in Nizhnii and then we have finals week after that.

I am working on my final research paper right now on Russian fairy tales. It's probably one of the most fun research papers I have ever written. I chose the topic haha. Ok well not much has been happening other than homeowork and just hanging out in Russia being cool.

p.s. sorry no picture today

Later.

Host family!

I moved into my host family this weekend!

They are so awesome! I have a really cool sister named Leera who knows pretty good english, a mama who hangs out in her robe all day long being a "domohozecka" / housewife, and a goofy dad who is always just cracking up at me trying to speak Russian. I also have a hairless cat named Vasya that LOVES me for some reason. He always jumps up on my lap when we're at dinner, drinking tea, doing homework, all day long he jumps on my lap and just looks at me like oh please massage my wrinkly skin. He's absolutely disgusting but in a really cute hilarious way. As you can see in the picture to your right. Him laying on me while I'm trying to do something, classic. The book I'm holding is my journal that I actually got at Powell's haha.

Basically my host family is super cool and this weekend we're going to Kazhan and I'm sad I won't get to hang out with the fam. Kazhan should be fun cause we're staying in a hotel again and hopefully there will be no screens on the windows so we can chuck squishy food out of them again and watch them splat on the pavement.

Maybe I'll update this blog again soon, If you cross your fingers maybe your dreams will come true...