Transportation Woes

These past few days since getting back from Novgorod have been all about walking around the city and seeing new neighborhoods. It's so nice how little homework we get at school - in Eugene, it doesn't matter, because there's nothing else to do anyways, but here it's awesome because there's a million other things to do. Every day after school we've been going to the mall, restaurants, churches, or just walking around with nothing to do at all, and it's all awesome. 

Since I've been here for two weeks now, I'm finally starting to realize what I like and don't like about the city, instead of just seeing it's majestic beauty. And what I don't like is how much time public transportation takes. We leave our house an hour and 15 minutes before school starts, which isn't that significant, but then when we do that and also end up on a terribly-crowded minibus with 70 people in it, it's bad news. And then after school, we'll be hanging out across town, and we have to decide to go home an hour before we predict that we would like to be home - what? By the time we are home, it's actually 30 minutes past when we wanted to be home. Yesterday we even had to take a taxi because we predicted really poorly and were exhausted before we could even catch the right bus. But that's what's awesome about taxis! 

Other than all that, everything is going really well! I'm going to see Swan Lake tonight at the Mihailovsky! More pictures to come soon.