Preparation....South Korea's Got Seoul!Well, we're here.....We are gloopy....Have a great weekend!Hello, Friends!Snow! Snow! Snow!Another Monday....Where is the sneg of yesteryear?!?Merry Christmas!С Новым Годом!Наш Рай!Back to School.....NovgorodAnother week has passed......Very quickly....
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St. Petersburg (Saint Petersburg), Russia
Apart from that, it has in general been a pretty eventful week! We had tickets to a play on Monday night, but - despite setting out 45 minutes early in order to find the venue - we couldn't find it, and ended up wandering the main street of St Petersburg for over 2 hours. We asked SEVERAL people if they knew where the theatre was, and in nearly all cases we received the extremely helpful answer of 'no'. Sigh. We still don't know where the theatre is actually, it's my personal belief that it doesn't exist. Maybe the play was supposed to be the existential drama of our souls in St Petersburg.......? But we made up for missing the play on Monday night by going to the opera last night. We saw 'Iolanta', a Tchaikovsky opera, at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatorium, where Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich all studied. How exciting! It was a really nice theatre as well, and there were all these cool sculptues of composers who had studied there (all of whom, incidentally, looked very serious - not like the students of today, I can assure you!) The opera itself was really good as well, both of us are looking forward to more musical adventures! The famous 'Winter Festival' starts next week, so hopefully we can manage to see some interesting events.....
AND - today is our last day of classes! Hooray! We're pretty excited, although the classes are really, really interesting. They do have their low points, however - yesterday, we were told by our 'Reading' teacher that, because we mispronounce our Russian 'o' sounds, we sound like Christian pilgrims from days of yore, and that people on the street probably laugh at the way we speak. Ouch! She's a delightful soul, really.....on a slightly more interesting note, we found out that there is a special verb in Russian which means 'to mispronounce one's 'o' sounds', which indicates to me that it might not be as uncommon as we were lead to believe.......the verb is окать , just in case anyone is interested!
So, now we don't quite know what to do with ourselves! Lots of fun, hopefully......some of the English students we met in class are leaving this weekend, so we might go out and celebrate with them tonight. Then we have big plans to see some museums on Monday, and maybe go to some music concerts on Tuesday, for Christmas, which should be exciting!
Well, if we don't have time to write again before Christmas, we wish you all a very merry, safe and happy Christmas! Best wishes for an enjoyable holiday, and we'll write again soon!
Love, Meg and Zoe
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