| | hello from moscow! i just got here yesterday evening, and i am definitely on my way to real backpacking again. i can't read (although i'm having a great time learning at least the pronunciation for the cyrillic alphabet, and immersion is actually forcing me to pick it up relatively quickly), hardly anyone seems to speak english, and the language is a total mystery. i don't know what i would do without frances to guide me around! it would definitely be far more confusing and slow. luckily she is here, and we are staying with her friend micha who is stanford 05... so i am still halfway between backpacking and visiting people.
internet is surprisingly hard to come across here, so i'll keep this short. we are still struggling to figure out our train tickets to start our trans-siberian adventure. pretty much everything seems sold out (not a surprise) but since neither frances nor i are big planners, who knows what we'll actually do. i've talked to some people who've been forced to fly certain parts because they couldn't get their act together to book a train-- hopefully that won't be us! i'd rather take a bus even, but in the interest of time we'll see what happens.
i have many observations about moscow already (can i say how excited i am to be somewhere so foreign?!! i love it! absolutely everything is interesting, even the most daily and mundane occurrences). one of the most striking things is the women-- i don't know how better to describe this but the young women here are decorated. they have giant fake jewelery, cheap heels, short shorts or mini skirts, crop tops, and TONS of makeup. lots of the clothes have weird glittery stuff, gaudy flowers.... think lavender polyester latina prostitute. however, most of these girls are skinny and beautiful! then you look at the older women and they are short, fat, and angry. hmm.
off to meet frances and buy our train tickets to ___?
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| | Posted 7/19/2007 4:47 AM - 35 Views - 0 eProps - 1 Comment
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