Saint Petersburg!
So I'm in Russia right now! MIRA WOW! Crazy right?! So far, I am loving it!!! I mean it is completely different from China (but duh!), so I like Russia for its own reasons. I just appreciate everything about it so far! The people are not as mean and rude as I thought they would be! They're pretty rude at the metros and streets, but haha whatever. It just makes me laugh. I LOVE THE BABUSHKAS HERE!!!! Seriously, I'm obsessed with the little old ladies here. It's my goal to get yelled at by one of them! One of the girls from the other group got yelled by one for some reason and when they told me, I was sooooo jealous!!!! The old men here are really nice too. They give flowers to their women, awe :) If I were to describe Russia's smell.... lets add some booze + BO + cigarettes and BOOM! There's Russia for you!. 
So I went to Saint Petersburg my first weekend! It was AWESOME!!! I think you know how much I am in loooooooooove with the early 1900 period/Imperial time in Russia with the Romanov's!! GUESS WHAT I GOT TO SEE BABYYYYY!!!! I saw their gravesite and their summer and winter palace!!! Wow...they were unbelievable! Absolutely breath-taking! I also got to see Church on Spilled Blood Cathedral and inside is GORGEOUS! Every single wall is filled with pictures of Christ and his life....stories of him....I loved it. It's one of my most favorite buildings in the whole world. The winter palace had all these collections from around the world SO Nusly Phillips was a very happy happy HAPPY girl when she got to see the EXHIBITION OF ANCIENT EGYPT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SAW A MUMMIFIED MUMMY!!! and oh my goodness....you know how I love Ancient Egypt! It was hilarious cause we thought we would just spend an hour or so in the museum, but we stayed for close to 4 hours!!! We stayed there until it closed and we were kicked out! hahahaha! But I saw paintings by Rambrant (my favorite, Prodigal Son painting!!! A man from North Carolina was there and he said what brought him to Russia was to see that very painting, AWE!), Da Vinci, Monet (actually, at least I was in the same building as Monet! I didn't get to see it cause the museum closed...I almost cried haahah), Picasso, Van Gogh (loooooove), and there were just thousands of paintings and sculptures and I couldn't believe other things I didn't get to see in that museum. It's HUGE!!! I cannot believe a family lived in that place...I love trying to picture it being used as a home.
I saw some pretty interesting things walking along the streets...#1. a baby bear drinking what looked like strawberry milk (???) from a bottle #2. Clothed monkeys...a Russian man instructed me to put out my arms and he just put his monkey in my arms and it was a FREAKY MONKEY!!! it was twitching and started hissing and had a tight grasp on my shirt (Chelsea got a HILARIOUS picture of it) #3. A zombie ...on a leash? Yeah this bike-compact chick had a leash around this living dead creature. It was running after pigeons and people. It saw me from far away and tried getting to me, but its "owner" pulled him back... Hahahaha, oh St. Petersburg! It feels good to be home though because we have been on the GO GO GO since we got here and even though I have so much to do for my head teacher training, I feel like at least I can take a little bit of a breather now. When we were getting ready to go back to Moscow, our train didn't leave until 12:40 AM, so we were so exhausted cause we were out in the city from 7:30 am til 9 pm (the school in the area let us sleep there for the night, but we had to be out every morning by 8 or 9 and couldn't come back til 8 or 9 at night....so it was super exhausting and my feet killed, but it was SO fun! I was thinking how missionaries are amazing cause they do that everyday and their feet must HURT - you missionaries rock) and it was super late in the evening - at the train station, its very crowded, so our group couldn't find chairs to sit/sleep in while we waited. So theres this group of us Americans sleeping on the ground of the station cause it wasn't that gross or anything like that and I did NOT care cause I was exhausted, so I slept there waiting for my train and all these Russians walking past us were getting mad and were disgusted (no one sits on the ground, and if they do, they all put newspaper down) and even took pictures of us, hahahaha.
By the way, Russian women are BABES....at least so far all the ones I've been around. They all dress super nice and are beautiful! There is this one named Svetta that I work with at the school....sometimes I have trouble saying her name because I swear someone says it differently each time, but anyways, when I'm referring to her to someone, I just call her "the babe" because she is this tall, skinny, blonde model (well, not really, but she looks like it!!)...I look at myself and say TRASH hahaha
So I went to Saint Petersburg my first weekend! It was AWESOME!!! I think you know how much I am in loooooooooove with the early 1900 period/Imperial time in Russia with the Romanov's!! GUESS WHAT I GOT TO SEE BABYYYYY!!!! I saw their gravesite and their summer and winter palace!!! Wow...they were unbelievable! Absolutely breath-taking! I also got to see Church on Spilled Blood Cathedral and inside is GORGEOUS! Every single wall is filled with pictures of Christ and his life....stories of him....I loved it. It's one of my most favorite buildings in the whole world. The winter palace had all these collections from around the world SO Nusly Phillips was a very happy happy HAPPY girl when she got to see the EXHIBITION OF ANCIENT EGYPT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SAW A MUMMIFIED MUMMY!!! and oh my goodness....you know how I love Ancient Egypt! It was hilarious cause we thought we would just spend an hour or so in the museum, but we stayed for close to 4 hours!!! We stayed there until it closed and we were kicked out! hahahaha! But I saw paintings by Rambrant (my favorite, Prodigal Son painting!!! A man from North Carolina was there and he said what brought him to Russia was to see that very painting, AWE!), Da Vinci, Monet (actually, at least I was in the same building as Monet! I didn't get to see it cause the museum closed...I almost cried haahah), Picasso, Van Gogh (loooooove), and there were just thousands of paintings and sculptures and I couldn't believe other things I didn't get to see in that museum. It's HUGE!!! I cannot believe a family lived in that place...I love trying to picture it being used as a home.
I saw some pretty interesting things walking along the streets...#1. a baby bear drinking what looked like strawberry milk (???) from a bottle #2. Clothed monkeys...a Russian man instructed me to put out my arms and he just put his monkey in my arms and it was a FREAKY MONKEY!!! it was twitching and started hissing and had a tight grasp on my shirt (Chelsea got a HILARIOUS picture of it) #3. A zombie ...on a leash? Yeah this bike-compact chick had a leash around this living dead creature. It was running after pigeons and people. It saw me from far away and tried getting to me, but its "owner" pulled him back... Hahahaha, oh St. Petersburg! It feels good to be home though because we have been on the GO GO GO since we got here and even though I have so much to do for my head teacher training, I feel like at least I can take a little bit of a breather now. When we were getting ready to go back to Moscow, our train didn't leave until 12:40 AM, so we were so exhausted cause we were out in the city from 7:30 am til 9 pm (the school in the area let us sleep there for the night, but we had to be out every morning by 8 or 9 and couldn't come back til 8 or 9 at night....so it was super exhausting and my feet killed, but it was SO fun! I was thinking how missionaries are amazing cause they do that everyday and their feet must HURT - you missionaries rock) and it was super late in the evening - at the train station, its very crowded, so our group couldn't find chairs to sit/sleep in while we waited. So theres this group of us Americans sleeping on the ground of the station cause it wasn't that gross or anything like that and I did NOT care cause I was exhausted, so I slept there waiting for my train and all these Russians walking past us were getting mad and were disgusted (no one sits on the ground, and if they do, they all put newspaper down) and even took pictures of us, hahahaha.
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