So as the title might imply, these two weeks were somewhat slow. But I needed that. As a group we got some good relaxation in but even with the extra time I didn’t get any more work done, and continued to stay up late the night before assignments were due. That’s changed now, I’m getting better and only have 2 more problems on my Topology assignment that’s due Wednesday.
Anyway, the week began with my first session of tutoring an 8th grader in English, specifically translating vocabulary from maths, biology, chemistry, and other school subjects from Russian to English, so when he moves in November he won’t be super shocked/confused. I went out to where his school was on the very bottom of the red Metro line:
On a different note, here’s how Russian’s park:
Natasha scored an apartment when her ‘new’ family friends left town for 3 weeks. They have an oven and we lack one. So some of us went over one weeknight and had lasagna. All cooking supervised by Austin. For dessert we had a chocolate cake, with the thickest cream (homemade) I’ve had in a long time (to fix that I went for a run the next morning).
On Friday night the 25th of September we went to Natalie’s (we began calling the apartment ‘Natalie’s), and had a low key night watching ‘I love you man.’ Here is a special photo of us chillaxing after the film:
There are a few subtleties in this photo that make it special. First and foremost is the background on Chris’s laptop (the one in lower LH corner). It is a photo of the saddest dog in the world (taken from reddit.com). In addition, Chris’s expression matches that of the dog. Next, is the background of the laptop on the right of the screen: Mark Thom. Mark Thom is one of the students in our program and Adeel took the most amazing photo of him and is now using it as his background…the creepiness of that makes it funnier. Mark Thom:
Right before we decide to sleep which is around 4am Natalie informs us she, Christina, and Daniel are going to the ballet the next morning. Since, I didn’t come to the apartment with anything appropriate to wear to the show, along with about everyone else, we decided to pass. Also, we wanted to sleep more than 5 hours. So when Natalie woke up to leave, she captured us sprawled out around the living room:
The next night we went out to 35mm KINO, a movie theater that shows films in English, and watched ‘Moon’, a very entertaining and thought provoking low-budget science fiction film that was released this summer and is quite on par with District 9. Since the movie theater was down the block from Natalie’s we all ended up sleeping over there again. Sunday morning we back over to the dorm and I took some photos of my room as promised:
The bedding is a little odd. No fitted sheet. Just a flat sheet below and then a flat sheet above with some wool matting that fits into it. The sheet is more like a thin duvet cover. On top lies the thin blue blanket. But the heaters crank here and I haven’t been cold once yet. Quite comfortable actually. I’ve gotten used to the difference and sleep pretty well now.
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