October 17, 2005

We had lots of fun Saturday night, there were about 25 of us for supper. Jeff tried the borsht and liked it but he ate it all before I had a chance to taste it. I had fried potatoes and mushrooms. Almost everyone at supper was waiting for another appointment.

Sunday it rained all day. We stayed at the apartment and read books. Jeff finished his book and I read a book we borrowed from Brent and Patti. "Shadow Chasers" is a true story of the deep sea discovery of a German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey. It was very interesting.

Today we spoke to Sasha and he is working on getting us our appointment. He said he will call us today, which really means tomorrow perhaps. We went to the grocery store and I febreezed the elevator in our apartment. It smells really bad, Jeff says it smells like rats and I say cat litter. Yuck. It doesn't help that the elevator isn't much bigger than a refrigerator.

We have lots of channels on the tv in our apartment. The music videos are mostly in English but everything else is dubbed over in Russian or Ukrainian. We watched Nanny 9-1-1 earlier. If you listen carefully you can still hear the English. I was pretty excited.

We are becoming professionals at riding the metro. It is pretty clean and seems very safe. It costs 50 kopecks to ride or 10 cents.

They still haven't turned the heat on in the apartment. We aren't freezing since there is an electric heater we can move from room to room with us.