I biffed it.

Can you believe I only have 2 weeks left? Where did the time go? I feel like it was yesterday that I first walked from my apartment to the Metro and thought, "Wow. I'm in Russia! This is unreal." Now that walk is like blinking, I'm so used to it and don't even think about it anymore. I just do it. There's a lot of things about Russia I'm really going to miss. Like my kids. Thinking about not being able to see my kids every week breaks my heart. Every single one of them has stolen a place in my heart. Especially Matvey, oh I love that kid. Every time I see him, he'll run up to me, hug me, and pull me down to whisper, "Teacher Courtney, Igra Angry Birds?" Which means, Can I play Angry Birds? The kid is obsessed. And I can't resist, so after class, I let him play for a little while.

Look at him. This is a kid who does not take Angry Birds lightly.

I'm really going to miss the feeling of adventure here too. I love being somewhere that's so new and exciting that I can get off at any random Metro stop and be somewhere I have no idea about. Somewhere I've never been and probably will never be again. It's the best. I really am going to miss it here, but I can't wait to be home too. I've missed my awesome family. And sunny St. George. And my friends.
Oh! And here's a funny story. So last Thursday, it had just barely snowed the night before so the roads and sidewalks were really slick. We were trying our hardest not to fall, but that didn't work out. Marci and I fell flat on our face (me) and back (Marci) on the walk to my school. We both have the same boots, which we assumed would help us out. Nope, not at all. They made it worse. Well, on the way back from the school, we were being extra careful with our steps and tried walking really slow. We thought we had made it out of the danger zone when we got to the Metro. We were walking up the stairs to go inside the Metro and I thought, "YES! We made it without falling."  Oh, how wrong I was to think that. I took two steps up the stairs, slipped off the step, and fell right on my knee. It hurt so bad. The force of the fall made it so my hat fell down across my eyes and in my haste to get up and not look like a total fool, I just left it. So there I was, sprawled across the stairs, my hat covering my eyes, and trying my hardest not to cry about my knee. Marci and Megan could not stop laughing at me. Not my best moment. We got inside the Metro and one of the security guards came up to me and started talking to me in Russian. I caught a few words I understood and from his hand gestures, I could tell that he was saying that the reason I fell was because my pants were ripping in the back. I thanked him and tried to get over the fact that another person had watched me looking like a complete idiot. Also, keep in mind that this is what I looked like that day.

Yeah, I got a lot of dates that day. You believe me, right? Yeah... Me neither. 

All right, Welp, See ya later!