In my last post I mentioned a misadventure involving a diner. This one isn’t as much of a misadventure as the first or second ones, but it certainly was an interesting thing to experience. It was during the autumn break which is for the ending of the first school term. I was sadly sick the first two days, like the gross vomiting all-night kind. And of course, this happened right after I finally got my sleeping back on schedule and it made me nocturnal the rest of break. On Friday night my host mother asked me if I wanted to go visit Lera in Kirov-Chepetsk, which is a Salem-sized city on the outskirts of Kirov. I said sure, as I had no other plans, and one of the first things they tell you in our Rotary exchange camps is to never say no when someone offers you something.
The next day I woke up at 6 am and sleepily got dressed and packed my laptop and phone charger like my host-mother told me and made my way to the car. I slept the entire ride from Kirov to Kirov-Chepetsk, which resulted in me arriving to Lera’s grandmother very sleepy. My host-mother suggested that I take a nap. My host-grandmother gave me a pair of pjs and a place to sleep. I then slept until 4pm. That was not the proper way to slay my nocturnal-ness. I went on an adventure with Lera and her friend from St. Petersburg.(Lera told me her name and I totally missed it.) We ended up meeting with Lera’s other friend in a diner, which is sort of the point in writing this post. I was really hungry after sleeping so much, so of course I wanted to eat.
I had texted my friend earlier that I wanted french fries really badly and coke. So I was incredibly happy when I found a can of coke, french fries and a piroshki full of hamburger. But then, the woman put my tray into the.. microwave? What? $6 later I had a coke, and microwaved comfort food. Writing this nows actually makes it sound really lame, but I thought it was a hilarious Don’t judge.
But back to the microwave. I have gone to multiple cafe’s in Kirov where they microwaved my food. This is a country where the school lunches are prepared fresh everyday and consist of actual food being eaten with actual silverware on real dishes. I think it’s really interesting that they provide their students with such good food, longer breaks, shorter classes and shorter days. But they study 11-17 different subjects at once. It’s very different from home.
I know I haven’t updated you guys in a long time. I’ll try to get on top of it.
But for now
пока пока,
Piffy
