Conveyor Belt Ninja.

Privet! Today was not too interesting, but still fun! We woke up around 11... Okay, wait, kinda. So I woke up at like 6:30AM and did my blogging, Facebooking, all that jazz. I was done at like 7 and nobody was awake and I had nothing else to do so I tried to go back to bed! I woke up around 11 again. And that's around when everyone else was waking up too. We're all very jet lagged... haha Anyways! So we sat around until about 12:00 and decided we desperately needed to grocery shop. I'm pretty sure the Lord will forgive us because he does not want his children to starve to death. Well, we started on the 10 second walk to the grocery, which is such a relief that it's so close. The one in London made me want to die, it was so far away. So we got to the grocery store and realized, it was a kind of mall. And there was a bakery in it! How could we pass that up? We walked into the bakery and right away, the workers knew we were American. Maybe it was the way we counted our money like we had never seen such crazy things as coins before. Or the way we chatted away, very loudly, in English. Or that the men in front of us were laughing their heads off, pointing at us, and saying, what i think was, "Stupid Americans! " Luckily, the man standing behind us knew some English and helped us a little bit. But it really wasn't that hard to order, we just pointed at what we wanted, held up one finger, gave her money and enjoyed some delicious Russian pastries. In Russia, it's considered rude to eat in public. There is a reason I was not born in Russia, when something looks delicious to me, that puppy is going in my gullet. I downed that pastry pretty fast and got a couple dirty looks but let me tell you, it was totally worth it. After polishing off our delicious pastries, we went into the grocery store and picked out the essentials. TP, bread, cereal, weird milk, juice (the juice here is divine!) and, of course, chocolate! Yum. Well, we finished picking and went to stand in line. This is where the story gets interesting. I was standing in line, right behind Marci, waiting for the conveyor belt to move forward so I could put my stuff down. When the conveyor belt finally did move forward, the man standing behind me swooped in and set his 2 items right behind Marci's before I got a chance to blink. I, of course, had no idea what to do. I couldn't say to him, "Yo, jerk, move your crap! I was here first." because he doesn't speak English and I don't speak Russian. Plus I don't think Yo is in the Russian language. Well, after standing there for a couple very fast heart beats. I decided to slyly scoot his stuff back and set mine down. So, I took the plunge. I scooted his stuff a little bit and was rewarded with a very sharp, ninja smack on the upper arm. Ouch. It took me a second to register that this jerk had actually hit me! I was so surprised, I kind of just stood there for a second, eyes wide open, shock written all over my face. I probably looked like I had just seen a ghost. I didn't want to turn around and give him the stink eye because then he'd probably start talking to me in Russian and all I know how to say is thank you. And I was NOT going to thank him for walloping me in the freakin' arm. So I just put all my groceries on the conveyor belt and waited. I was checked out by a lovely Russian lady who had never smiled in her life and I followed Marci, Sydney and Katie out. We all walked out of the store and started walking towards our apartment, I turned for a second to look back and there he was. Mr. I-hit-American-girls-because-i'm-so-cool. I tried not to look scared, I tried to look like I had never been scared in my life, but that probably just made me look like I had a stomach-ache or something. I stared at him and waited for him to come at me bro. He walked towards me, with evil in his eyes and he... got into his car. I thought I was going to have to pull out some fight moves that Buffy the Vampire Slayer had taught me. Thank goodness I didn't! That guy would have been in the hospital for days. So with that crisis averted, we walked back to our apartment and enjoyed our juice, chocolate and cereal! The rest of the day, we did some training, prepared for our lessons (which are tomorrow! Ahh!!) and just hung out. I'm proud to say that I did end up falling asleep after 11! I'm not an old Granny anymore! Hooray! But hopefully, my lessons go okay and I don't get trampled by Russian children. See ya later!
And sadly, I didn't take any pictures today! I should have grabbed a sly one of the conveyor belt ninja but then I would probably be dead.