This last week was good! Teaching is an adventure, taxi rides are an adventure every time (one day this week we got pulled over), and we did some fun things this week! I really want to be good at this teaching thing, so I'm trying! I have improved a lot already since I started I think, but I'm still ironing out some things. The hardest part for me is lesson planning. It takes me quite a bit of time to get them done just because it can be a little difficult to think of ideas that will keep the kids engaged. And with the kindergarteners, sometimes the lessons don't work like we planned, so we have to be ready with songs or little games to get their attention again, which can also be hard. I tried bubbles the other day and they loved it so that was a win. Some days are definitely better than others.
Our group went to a Georgian restaurant for a Galentine's dinner, and I am a fan. I got leek (onion) soup and lavash bread. So good. Pics below because I am now that person who takes pictures of my food.
In April-May, we are taking a two week vacation! I'll be going with Abby, three girls from our group, and also our host sister Shakhnoza wanted to tag along. We are going to Amsterdam, Prague, Krakow, Vienna, Budapest, and Greece. Stoked. More on that later.
On Thursday, we had our culture class with Gulya. She told us about the Russian alphabet, and how some letters in English and Russian are different. Like "P" is "R" which is so confusing. She gave us a paper with some basic Russian phrases to practice. She also had some chocolate and taught us how to ask for the one that we wanted.
Also this weekend was super fun. Some girls from our group planned on going to a convent in Moscow, but when we got there we realized we had to pay and also it looked like it was under construction, so we're probably going to come back another time. It looked gorgeous though. Instead we found a little church across the street and went there. I like going to churches we find here, they're super cool and they're all over. After that, we went to the Olympic stadium. There's a huge statue of Lenin in front of it. They were shoveling snow off the roof, and it was so loud. So that was crazy. We also went to another church, and the oldest grocery store in Moscow. Which is the prettiest grocery store I have ever seen. We shared some honey cake, and some chocolate filled pastries there. Abby and I were craving some familiar, so on our way home we were going to go to the McDonald's in the mall by our bus stop, but when we got there there were a million people outside. They weren't letting anyone in, and there were police and a fire truck.. so we went home low key disappointed cause we just wanted some chicken nuggets ya know.
On Sunday, we decided to go to the Russian ward at 1:00. Every third Sunday, some museums are free, so before church we met to go the space museum. We were going to meet the sister missionaries at the metro stop at 12:30 so they could show us where the church was. Malika came with us, and we got there early so we took some pictures while we waited for the rest of our group to get there. We spent some time in the museum, Malika and Abby went home, we grabbed some donuts and went to church. We were a bit late, because we left the museum late, and then we couldn't find the church. The map was taking us in circles. Two girls walked past us eventually, and someone in our group asked them if they were sister missionaries after they were a few feet away. And they were! One was from Alpine, Utah and the other one was from Frankfurt, Germany. They showed us where the church was, and we just stayed for sacrament. Even though I don't know what they were saying, it was still cool. The people in front of us kept looking back because we were quietly singing the hymns in English lol. And the bread was 1000% better than it is in America. Someone probably made it that morning to be honest. After church, we found a cute little cafe, and got some lunch. Customer service here is not like it is in America. They don't really want to serve you, and definitely not Americans. So our server was nice but we could tell he was annoyed. Oh well. I got bread with melted cheese in it. I wish I could tell you what it was called but I don't remember. That day the only thing I ate was bread so pretty much I'm killing it. After that we headed home. It was nice to get out of the house and distract myself from teaching and lesson planning for a bit. That's it! Here's a lot of fun photos for you
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| pretty lights by my bus stop |
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| a huge bench |
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| my leek soup and bread |
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| it was so pretty thursday morning |
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| just taking pictures of the trees from inside the bus lol |
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| all the metro stops are beautiful but it looks like there's a rainbow on the ceiling of this one so |
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| a cool gate |
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| a cool door |
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| this is inside the church we went to on saturday |
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| the church from the outside. it was so little and cute |
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| the olympic stadium with good old len in front |
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| more metro stops |
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| another cool church we went to |
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| these are from the oldest grocery store in moscow.. still in awe |
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| a cool arch |
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| there are some really long escalators here but taking pictures of them is hard |
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| metro stop somewhere |
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| this is the monument outside of the space museum. it was very impressive |
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| from the front |
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| inside the space museum |
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| the monument with the sun out |
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| the cute russian ward's church |
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| more bread <3 it has cheese inside |
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| more from the grocery store |
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