I'm beautiful and maybe fat?

I saw the Nutcracker Ballet at the Kremlin (also known as the former hall of Congress of the Communist Party)on Saturday and it was pretty awesome! Afterwards, we went to a mall in Red Square. As the girls went into a store to shop, I stayed outside to people watch. A guy came up to me and started speaking to me, but I replied, "Sorry, no Russian. English Only," and he said, "Ohhh.... you are very beautiful!" and just walked away. AWWW...well that was really nice! But then seriously like 5 minutes later, that compliment totally got WIPED because this man pointed to my belly and demonstrated a pregnant belly and I was like, "What? ME?! No! No!" and he said, "Da! Da!" (Yes! Yes!) and I kept telling him no, but he wasn't asking me if I was pregnant, he was telling me I was, hahahahha. It's funny just because I know I'm such a skinny thing. I did have on this dress that kind of bunches up and poofs in the mid-section....or maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better, hahahah.

Yesterday, I heard someone knocking on my door and them coming in and I was in the middle of putting on some pants so I quickly pulled them up and it was only Svetta. She asked, "Nusly, could I ask you a question? Please come out to the hall." - so I did and do you guys remember Sasha (the drunk guy knocking on my door and singing to me two weekends ago)? Svetta said to me, "Sasha would like to know if he could draw a portrait of you if it would be alright," - of course! haha! So Sasha and his friend Natalie first drew me as I was reading my scriptures. It was funny cause eventually Natalie said to me, "Smile," and so I did, but I felt weird smiling as I was reading in the Old Testament of 70 men getting their heads cut off and the heads being put into baskets. After that, Natalie came and handed me a guitar to pose with. Sasha left and came back 5 minutes later with a hat. Once he put the hat on me, Natalie exclaimed, "AH! Very good! Perfect" and continued drawing, hahahha. They said I had an "interesting" face. I like Natalie - I would see her every now and then always going into Sasha's apartment, but I never officially met her until Sunday. She came into the library as I was skyping a friend and she handed me a book and said, "This is for you. Happy birthday!" and I said, "Wow! Thank you! That is so nice! but, it's not my birthday," and she said, "Well, I still want you to have it" - sweeeeeet....I finally have a map of the metro. I love unbirthdays!

Sofa, Nastya, & Stesha

Kindergarten is going so great. I LOVE OUR KIDS!!! They are so fun and crazy! I always look forward to going to the schools everyday. You guys, I so badly want one of my own Vovas!!! I want a son like him so bad!! hahahahha. So last week, Selina and Hailey were teaching Basic Reading and one day, Vova said his name was Cleopatra and the next day, he was Sheeva (the 6 armed Hindu god) and he would only answer to those names. Well, Seroja and Vova were whispering to each other and drawing on paper and Selina finally took it away from them and they yelled, "NOOOO! DON'T LOOK! GIVE THE PAPER BACK!". The paper had the classroom set up drawn and arrows pointing to the door and to the hallway....it was an ESCAPE plan! hahahahha!!!

I have been here for 2 months already... cannot believe it. After next week, I go on VACATION BABY!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!! We're going to Sweden, Finland, and Estonia! I'm WAY excited!