Well I drank away the cold. Or, as a Russian would put it ‘I lost my problems in vodka’, an excellent solution! Firmin, my neighbour, came round and we had a few bevies and watched some English TV which I brought with me on my laptop. Excellent cure. Today we had a test (no, I wasn’t hung-over) and I think I did OK. After school we took a mashrutka to Nevsky Prospekt, the main street in Piter. I was in the money seat on the mashrutka which is the seat behind the driver. Whoever sits here has to collect the money from the passengers and pay the driver. I’ve managed to avoid that seat until now, but it went perfectly smoothly! Blonde Tatiana, our media teacher, was on the mashrutka and seemed very impressed! I didn’t
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