So my winter break has been absolutely fabulous! I got some adorable rabbit gifts from my students at the end of the year and WAAAAY too much cake and candy to count. The kitchen table at the American Home was just PILED with spoiling cream and sugar conconctions for days. Gross.
And, I'm not going to lie, seeing everyone leave for home one by one was pretty hard. Even knowing that they are going to come back with peanut butter and brown sugar and vanilla flavoring and other American delicacies. But Emily and I made a Christmas dinner for some of our favorite friends in Russia and it was spectacular. Unfortunately, the AH wasn't very supportive and sometimes even asked us to help grade/give oral exams while we were working in the kichens. Hmmmm.....But in general it was really fun to have sleepovers in the upstairs classroom for a couple of nights and get massive amounts of food from the markets for our traditonal dinner. The gang was all there and Sasha brought wine that his mom made and the ham was beautiful...It was really, really great. We played games, listened to Christmas music, and even skyped with my sister. And on Christmas day, we did some shopping and prepped for our fantastic adventures through the cities of Russia!
Our first city was Moscow, complete with a Russian opera at the Bolshoy Theater. I actually messed up the dates a bit, so we had to scramble and get a third night at our hostel, but it all worked out. (We may or may not have dressed up and gone to the Bolshoy a day early, and we definitely DID.) BUT luckily Emily is the best person in the whole world to travel with and we just had a night on the town e juthat night. (Seriously, I don't know when I've had this much fun on a trip, we arst exactly on the same page; usually after even a week or 5 days I am ready for major time to myself). And the Tzar's Bride was a beautiful production, the set and costumes and Russian dances on stage were really just stunning. And they had big screens with subtitles in English too! A nice surprise...
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