Heather Worley Living in St. Petersburg, Russia
Hello All -
Well, I am no longer in Russia. Last Monday, Mom came to St. Petersburg, and we spent a week seeing the town. We saw pretty everything in the center of the city, as well as Pushkin and Petrodvoretz out in the suburb. I got to play translator/interpreter, which was fun and interesting, and Mom, brave soul that she is, spent five days in a crash course of SPB culture and history.
Saturday night I was out almost all night, so I was quite tired when our 7:40 a.m. flight left. Due to my error, we didn't have Mom's immigration card with us when we left, and we thought the airport employees would probably fine us. Turns out they let her through without a question, but grilled me about my address. I was officially registered in the student dorms on a different island, although I lived with a host family, so I had no idea what my official address was. So I just said I didn't know because the school did all the paperwork for me. I figured they couldn't punish me for being ignorant about my own information.
We got to Prague at the same time we left SPB due to time zone changes, checked in at the hotel, wandered around a bit, and spent the rest of the day hanging out in the hotel. I took a long nap, wrote in my diary, and read the guide book. Around 10:00 p.m. it got dark - something I'm not used to! (The White Nights are starting in SPB, so it's never really dark - only sort of twilight-y for about three hours in the middle of the night.)
I'll write more about Prague and the Czech experience later. For now, we're going to explore the city.
Love to all -
Heather:)
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"Bez bumazhki ty - bukashka, a s bumazhkoi - chelovek". Without a paper, you are a bug; but with the paper, a human being. (This is why it's important to carry your passport with you.) From a song by Lebedev-Kumach. Thanks to Nikolay Gurskiy from Moscow.
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