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The Never Ending Day
It only took almost 24 hours to do it, but we finally arrived in Russia. Culture Shock set in pretty quickly at the airport and on the drive to town. All of the crazy signs and words that we don't know were really throwing us for a loop. I was surprised how many English signs there were outside of the airport. Some of the shop signs even have the English translation.
We already had a struggle trying to order dinner, but I think everyone ended up with something they could eat. The restaurant staff thought it was pretty funny that we didn't know exactly what we were ordering. It really didn't help that we're all running on about 4 hours of sleep.
Tomorrow we are in for a long day, seeing as much as possible with Dr. Merrill and Lena to guide us. Our hotel is right downtown so we all went for a stroll after dinner, but we have no idea what we were seeing, so hopefully Dr. Merrill can fill us in tomorrow.
We already had a struggle trying to order dinner, but I think everyone ended up with something they could eat. The restaurant staff thought it was pretty funny that we didn't know exactly what we were ordering. It really didn't help that we're all running on about 4 hours of sleep.
Tomorrow we are in for a long day, seeing as much as possible with Dr. Merrill and Lena to guide us. Our hotel is right downtown so we all went for a stroll after dinner, but we have no idea what we were seeing, so hopefully Dr. Merrill can fill us in tomorrow.
