Thursday 07.08.10

I unfortunately didn't get to hang out with these kids all too much, but they are all totally awesome. The dynamics of the group is hilarious. Like there is this one bully who I find secretly hilarious and he kind of owns the class. There is this one pudgy boy who is always made fun of. And all the girls just hang out and color and paint, while the boys crack jokes and color ninja turtle coloring pages.

But here they are, sitting in class.


After they start to get too rowdy, we go to the park. On my last day with them, we played dodgeball and I still rock that game like the champ I was in third grade.



Two girls, who decided to sit out of playing dodgeball. Smart, it was beyond hot.


She was my favorite.

This is our group leader, Vlad, playing on the jungle gym, by himself.


One boy showed me his ipod nano, so I showed him my ipod touch and a game I had on it. Soon, all the boys were taking turns playing, including Vlad. They pretty much deemed me the coolest person, yay to buying friendships.


Hahah, also on my way to class, I happened to be the only one on the little van/buses called mashootkas. The man tried talking to me. I assumed he was asking where I was going so I quickly said I don't speak Russian and tried to tell him over the bridge. It came out like- Bridge, Church, There- and I gestured to it being far away. I think he understood. But as we were going over the bridge, he stopped and said one minute. He walked out, kept the mashootkas running, while he peed behind a tree into the reservoir (this is one of the many reasons why we're not allowed to drink from the tap). Then we went on our way.

Russia, keeping it classy.