Gwen has train tickets to Kiev and BACK AGAIN!!

As of yesterday my confidence in speaking Russian and being able to deal with life here has increased greatly. The group of us who are planning on going to Kiev wanted to buy train tickets. We'd found one place online that sold them but it was significantly more expensive than we'd had been expecting to pay.

Rauhley's host-mom however told him that we could buy tickets at a Kassa here in Petersburg. Yesterday Allegra, Chelsea and I went there and between the 3 of us where able to get information on train schedules, and prices, and then managed to buy tickets there and back again! And the price was half of what the online company wanted.

I also managed to carry on a bit of a conversation with Tanya last night, and again this morning. Most of it was fairly simple topics, but just the whole fact that we could talk to one another, and I wasn't needing to look anything up, and that the pace of the conversation could feel "normal" made me feel good.

This last week as a whole has been very busy, Maselnitsa and Women's Day, and a Russian-American Mixer, and another trip to the Hermitage and the highlights from the week.