МакДоналдс

McDonald's in Russia offers free wireless for 15MB or 30 minutes, whichever comes first, so it's not exactly "free," but I thought I'd post an update. The cathedral was gorgeous, and I hung out with some people afterwards as we checked out the Дом Книги (Dom Knigi; House of Books--or perhaps more accurately, House of the Book). I bought (for something like $3.50) a small collection of Mark Twain aphorisms written in both the original English and in very good Russian translations.

Hope all is well. Time now to go get dinner at host-home, then work and sleep. Tomorrow we have phonetics class, as well as the regular. Choir (really just a group of us getting together and singing Russian songs) on Thursday, Theatre class on Friday (we're doing Chekhov's Three Sisters), and this weekend we're going to Pskov! Should be fun. Don't have time to write more now.