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
Everything continues to go well over here - I'm so sad that the time is passing so quickly! It's so wonderful here, and there's always so much to do.... Zoe and I have been talking heaps about just how much we love it, and how we really, really want to stay! I think we've been really lucky, we've had such a fantastic time and relatively few dramas - although it's not over yet! I'm sure there's still plenty of time for us to get into trouble of some sort....
Well, what have we been up to? We finally visited the Peter and Paul Fortress last week, although we managed to visit on the one day a week that the cathedral is closed! So we may have to go back..... it was pretty incredible, though. There's a massive bell tower in the cathedral, and as we walked into the fortress (it's on this kind of island on the Neva) the bells were all chiming - it was a really gloomy, overcast day, so it was pretty creepy. The buildings are really beautiful, though. Then we went searching for a Russian bathhouse, but all the ones we could find were either closed on Wednesdays, or not in operation anymore. How sad! So we're planning on going sometime this week......
Last night, we went to a beautiful choir concert in St Isaac's church - it was all choral music by Rachmaninoff, and all of it was amazing! It was great to see the inside of St Isaac's as well - it's pretty intense. Our conversation teacher was talking about it the other day, and she said that heaps of people died while they were building it! It's really beautiful, but while the concert was on all the lights were dimmed, so it was really gloomy..... possibly the perfect place to listen to sacred music! Afterwards, Sam decided to call it a night, but Zoe and I felt like a bit of a dance, so we trekked out to a dance club called 'Metro', a 4-story monstrosity playing an exciting mixture of techno and crazy Russian pop! I swear we were the oldest people inside, it was pretty amusing. So we went wild on the dance floor.... it was really, really fun. I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with how badly a lot of Russians dance, it's great! So, needless to say, Zoe and I fit right in.....
We've visited some crazy museums over the last couple of days as well. After school one day, we popped in to see the Museum of Erotica, a fine establishment housing Rasputin's penis in a glass gar. Yeah, it was pretty gross.... and the museum was so random, it was actually in the middle of a proctology clinic! We had assumed that it may have been just a money-making enterprise for the clinic itself, but admission was free! Very random..... And today we went to the Sigmund Freud Museum of Dreams, which is a conceptual museum displaying all these images that are apparently the most common in dreams. It was pretty cool, and there was also information about Freud's life and work. A couple of days ago, we visited Stroganoff Palace and saw a really interesting photo exhibition, called 'Leningrad Underground'. All the photos weren't allowed to be exhibited in public during the years of the USSR, because all the Soviet art had to depict certain ideas, etc. It was incredible!
Anyway, that's all for now! Hope you all enjoyed your weekend!
Love,
Meg and Zoe
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