21 April 2009

I mailed my winter clothing home today. It wasn’t cheap, but it was still less and lighter than I was expecting. I was able to get about
I finally got my registration for my visa today. When the first woman was making a photocopy, she asked me about going to Poland. I told her that the plans have changed, and I am no longer leaving tomorrow…to put it lightly she didn’t take it well. She started yelling at me for lying to her, and then went out of the room. A second woman came in (the one who I always see yelling at foreigners in the visa department) and asked me why I’m not going to Poland. I told her that I had been planning on it, but I was just told that the plans had changed. She then said a lot of words that I don’t think I’ll learn at the university…in class, anyway. She said she had already written some ministry and said that I was leaving the country and that now she’d have to do everything all over again. I really didn’t see a lot of options, so I just calmly apologized and said that it wasn’t my decision to change the plans. She calmed down, crossed off the dates of departure on the registration, signed it, and gave it to me. I don’t really get what the big deal was…but I apologized again and left. To be fair, I knew the dates had changed over a week ago, but I had already wasted a lot of hours and gone through the whole process of requesting an expedited visa, so I wasn’t going to go tell them I didn’t need it anymore and wait until June.
Other than that, not too much going on. Valentin let me use his thermometer, and I am indeed sick with a fever. Sasha gave me some cold medicine, and I will go tomorrow to the clinic. Hopefully it will be something simple and they can just give me medicine and I’ll be back on my feet by next week.

On a side note…I don’t want to seem ignorant of other cultures or anything…but for dinner I ate two eggs that were dipped in holy water and given to my roommate Sasha as a gift for Russian Orthodox Easter. They were delicious. To be fair, Nikita ate the last of my eggs...