Okay seriously, all I want is a good cheesburger, but it is impossible here. I have been trapped in my apartment for three and a half days now... they are saying I'm being quarantined.
great. I have been sick ever since I got to Russia. I think it's just the change in surroundings... different air, more pollution, not alot of regular water to drink. Regardless of what I think is wrong with me, my host mom knows best... she
is a doctor. So I have been on two different kinds of ear drops, two nose sprays, a throat spray, cough syrup, cough pills, cold pills, tylenol, vitamins, etc. I am feeling alot better now though! I don't have any appetite and I have a constant headache, but at least I can breath and I'm not nausous all the time. I have found that while you are anywhere you're not fimilair with you have to look for the positives. So for the past basically four days, I have been sleeping alot and practicing Russian alot... but at least I'm not that sick anymore! I think I will go back to school tomorrow... hopefully.
Since my last post I have started school. School in Russia is very... interesting, to say the least. Sometimes I go to school at 8:30, other times 10:30. Each class is one hour and twenty-five minutes long and somedays we have two classes, otherdays we have four. It just depends. It reminds me of a college schedual. So far I have had a literature class, a Russian language class, two English language classes, a physics class, a math class, a biology class, a psychology class, a social class, and a class they call "oh-bee-jay". I have no idea what it is and they don't know how to describe it in English... so I will just have to wait until I know more and figue out what it is. I don't understand anything in my classes... excpet the English classes. I was deemed a fluent speaker by the teacher haha.
I will be 18 soon and am sooo stoked! I don't know why, it doesn't really matter here, but I really want to turn 18.
The first week of October the other exchange studets and I will fly to Irkusk in Siberia for four days. I am really excited, because I would like to spend a month or two there... if I am nice to the right people maybe they will let me come back and stay for awhile.
I really miss everyone alot... especailly my mom, my kitten and McDonalds. It sucks not having American food here... like pizza and hotdogs and cheeseburgers. I mean they have them, but they aren't the same. I am getting really sick of having soup, chicken, and potatoes for every meal. I want some beef!