Logging in again from an internet cafe, this one just a couple blocks from the apartment Im staying at. I've discovered that my housemom is in fact at the dacha with her grandkids right now. I had expected this the second set of three weeks, not the first, so it's a bit odd to be living alone all of a sudden, especially since I've never had my own room before. Oh well. On the bright side, I do now know conclusively how the Metro works. Despite what any map says, 'red' and 'blue' lines (I think theyre numbered rather than colored, but oh well) are parallel lines; you take red one way and blue the other, so whichever line you take to somewhere, you take the other back. I also, due to my Slavic (Slovene) background
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