I'm currently sitting in the Club lounge at Heathrow airport. Still an hour before I find out what gate my flight leaves from - which is kind of strange. I wish they'd let us know a little earlier, considering that we only have a half an hour from the time we know our gate until it closes!
In other considerations, I've learned I'll be living on the mainland, not on Vasilevsky island, which gives me a good 45 minute walk / 30 minutes if I take the trolleys up Nevsky to get to the university. I will be living with a woman and her 17-year-old daughter, plus a veritable zoo of animals - parrot, dog, and cat! THAT is exciting.
I asked Professor Firtich what parrots (popugaj is Russian for parrot, and I can't type cyrillic on this keyboard because it's not mine) say in Russian; apparently the phrase is "popka durak" which means either "tush idiot" or "parrot (i.e. me) is an idiot". I'm leaning towards the second, but the coincidence is amusing.
OH MY GOD IN JUST A FEW HOURS I WILL BE IN ST PETERSBURG. CAN YOU £$%&ing believe it? [Proof that I'm using a UK keyboard, since I have a £ sign in my censorship. Word. Or in Russian, yeshcho by.]
flying across the Atlantic sure beats taking a boat.
ReplyDeleteglad the weather cooperated and nothing was delayed.