- Language class (12:00pm to 1:30pm) class was fine, i really do like my language professor. she had a pop oral quiz today, but i did okay i think, she's not really sure how to grade me but there will be a number at some point. i need to study hard for next week's test though, especially cursive.
- Bochka Lunch (1:30pm to 2:50pm) lunch was rushed since we only had an hour to get from the university to the hermitage, but i had good pelmeni.
- Hermitage Complex Tour (3pm to 4:50pm) i hate professor gregoriev (the hermitage class). he's a jackass and even though i was in the wrong today for not bringing my hermitage ID, it was a simple mistake due to miscommunication, and he decided to be a total asshole about it. i fumed for a very good half hour about it, and nothing else. i do not feel bad about my mistake, except thinking he was maybe not a total jackass before this. i know now that in his class, one toe out of line means you're entirely worthy of a staredown and jackassery, and one wrong answer means you're plain incompetent. i have decided to never speak in his class unless i know for sure it's a right answer and even then he never seems to care so yeah. jackass. i do not appreciate short tempered professors, even if they are intelligent and working for one of the most beautiful museums ive ever stepped foot in. i am a smart person who did not deserve the behavior he exhibited towards me, and i am so livid that i dont feel any remorse towards myself for forgetting my damned ID. he can go to hell in a handbasket.
- Pizza Cafe (4:50pm to 5:45pm) went to a pizza cafe for a short nondinner. i dont believe in paying $4 for a slice of pizza =/ so i sat and enjoyed the company
- Eugene Onegin at the Mariinsky Theatre (6:00pm - 11:00pm) the opera lasted 4 hours. im tired. my seat was awful. my view was between the two people in front of me and they were a couple who were snacking throughout the opera and cuddling so for a while i saw nothing except the supertitled screen above the stage that translated all their singing. mad distracting from the opera, but hugely helpful for me. didnt help with the couple in front though, so i stood against the wall of the box, sitting on the separator between my box and the next one. got a few stares, but wahtever i could at least see the stage and the people on it. the story was okay, the music was really good, and the singing was great. the last act was amazing--great set design, choreography was actually synchronized in comparison to the first two acts, and the singing got so much better. makes sense i guess? the applause at the end was a bit awkward because it was to the same beat, so people were just...clapping to a beat o_O
- i was in lot of places with a lot of tourists, so i saw a ton of asians, heard a lot of English, British English, Chinese, and Japanese. fun stuff.
- Chocolate Cafe (11:00pm to 12:00am) had a cup of actual melted chocolate. it was delicious.
- Metro Ride/Walk home (12:00am to 12:35am) yay the metro didn't close and i didnt see too many drunk people. they also fixed the light on my floor, so im not fumbling in the dark to open the locks on my door.
i am shit tired, and i took no photos today. another long busy day tomorrow
p.s. things i ate today:
10am - tea, piece of bread with ham and cheese
2pm - a small plate of pelmeni (very very small dumplings)
5:30pm - 3 bites of eric's pizza that had two pieces of salami and two olives on it, no cheese
10:00 pm - 3 pieces of jonathan's dark chocolate bar, one piece of eric and victoria's milk chocolate
12:00 am - a 50ml (about a shot) of melted chocolate
yeah.
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