Day 7

We just got internet back last night after having been down for almost 2 days, so that's why this is late.

But today we continued classes as usual, and though it's difficult, I'm really enjoying doing so much Russian dialogue, I already feel like it's helping me with alot of simple tasks here.

Then after classes, we went down to the US Consult to get a safety overview of Russia, which was boring... however, a highlight of that was when they started talking about job opportunities available, and how Russian is a priority language, so we're already pretty high in demand! So I'm really going to start considering this line of work possibly, sounds like it'd be just the thing for me.

After the US consult we got to meet our homestay family, Yuri and Tatiyana, they're really nice and they were really patient with us and now we're really excited about living with them! Their house is really nice by Russian standards, so that's a plus too! But we had tea with them and they talked to us the whole time and suprisingly I actually understood almost the entire conversation! Which was a huge confidence booster! But I'm pretty sure we even got invited to their dacha (summer home) which would be really cool because everyone is telling me that they're really nice and Yuri and Tatiyana were even telling us that if we get to go they're right next to a river for swimming and that it's located in a nice forest and we'd get to have soshliki (? not quite sure what it is, but everyone is saying it's awesome haha). So I'm really excited about moving in and I know that I'll learn alot from them!

The only downfall to living with them and speaking that much is going to be that I'll get exhausted! I literally wanted to pass out and my head hurt from concentrating so hard on our conversation!