A Little Bit of Life

Yesterday (Monday) was a pretty normal day. Got up, ate breakfast, went to school, got a 100 on a test in my Russian language class, ate lunch, listened to Stas tell about history, went home for tea and food, went to my internship and colored and played on the playground with the kids, went home, ate some supper, hung out with my AWESOME family who I love tons already, then hung out and listened to music with my friend Misha, did my homework and went to bed :-) It rained like cats and dogs all day and I borrowed a wonderful pair of rain boots from Toma that kept my feet dry all day. They were lifesavers in the GIANT puddles near our building.

Today was a little of the same. Did my normal school routine and then had an excursion with the group after school. We went to a cathedral and convent not too far outside of Novgorod. It was beautiful in the cathedral and outside, and we did a little walking around. We saw a holy hill that Saint Varlam built himself by carrying hat-fulls or dirt. It's said that if you walk around the hill 3 times praying for something it will come true. I had a very selfish prayer unfortunately and I'm not sure it will come true but I'll keep you posted. It had been rainging in the morning and cloudy all day but it was sunny when we left school. Then, even though it was sunny, while we were walking around the holy hill it started sprinkling cool water on our warm faces...it was sort of magical. We also walked to a well that had some tasty spring water. It was refreshing to rinse our faces with this cool water.

Tonight I plan on just chilling here at home. I have a semi-big homework assignment and just want to chill tonight. Tomorrow is Magda's last night here unfortunately. She wants to go out with a bit of a bang and I am going to send her out in still because I will miss her so much. Beforehand I am going to see a band call Cheap Halo at a bar with my host momma; should be a fun night. We are supposedly going on a boat ride tomorrow afternoon too so it'll be a busy day. Hence, rest.

Love,
Francesca