Week 5 Day 3

On Wednesday, classes kept going as usual, and we also got to have an independent lunch!

For lunch, all of us went to a little cluster of restaurants right by the university and got some pretty generic food, but our options were limited because our afternoon activity involved staying at the university, so it wasn’t worth the time to try and go to the center.

That afternoon, we watched a soviet comedy from the sixties called “бриллиантовая рука” (briliantovaya ruka, which translates roughly to ‘the diamond arm’), based on a true story about some Swiss smugglers (I think?). It was much easier to understand than the last one, and all of us really enoyed the movie overall, and a lot of our host families were also excited that we had seen it, since it is apparently a very culturally appreciated movie.

We finished the movie at about 5:00, and then a pretty big group of us decided to go into the center, look around the market and find a place there to do homework. We stayed there for a bit, had some drinks and once it got to about 6:30, I walked back to my bus stop and headed home.

Some old pins they were selling at the market 
(most of which are soviet).

When I got back, Vera was still at church, so I took a shower and read for a bit before going to bed at around 10:00. At that point, it had been storming for a while, so I was glad I hadn’t stayed out much later and gotten caught in the rain (again).

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