Moscow!!!

I got to spend the day in Moscow with our group yesterday!!! It was FANTASTIC after an awful week of mock lessons. Mine was...not spectacular.

It is really hard planning for low levels because there are a VERY limited number of games, etc. that are easy enough for them, and it's hard to make it funny because no one knows any silly vocabulary at that level. Anyway, after my lesson I was pretty sure that I didn't want to be a teacher anymore :S But it turns out that I will be teaching two Z2 classes (lowest level of our 10 options) and 3 A3 classes (one level up). So I'm actually overloading, because a full time week is 4 classes, but at least I'll get about an extra $50 a month for that lol Oh, and every class meets twice a week for 90 minutes.

Anyway, Moscow was soooo cool, we took the "express" train in in the morning and spent the whole day there. I was really pumped to see Red Square, but it was CLOSED when we got there for concert set up or something. Anyway, it just made it even more epic when we went back later and found it OPEN!!!! It was basically raining ice by then and we have some pretty kick ass photos of us in front of St. Basil's Cathedral.

We also went to the World War 2 museum in Victory Park and basically just hung around the city watching all the wedding parties run inside because of the weather. The metro was fun and cool and confusing, and the escalators there were EPIC. So much better than the ones in New York even, just really steep and fast and disorienting. The handrails there also move a lot faster than the steps, which Alex pointed out gives everyone a good chance to make a move on the person in front of them, which made me laugh for about 20 minues (VERY uncool in the metro where everyone should just be scowling).

Ok, next two colleague introductions: Ann who is super funny and crazy badass and has a blister on her foot that has basically become gangrenous. She crawled under the sink, unscrewed the plumbing, and rescued my bracelet from Africa last week after I dropped it down the drain, so you know she's cool. And Adam, the guy who I talked to the most beforе I came here and had high hopes for. The good news is he is just as cool in person as he is online, and I'm planning on making a habit of bullying him into playing sax for us at lunchtime every day. His host family is also still out of control crazy (see the karaoke post).

Having a blast!