'Round Town

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Yesterday at 8 Julia and Reggie came by and wanted to go down town. i advised that it was a bad idea, considering the metro closes at 10. They informed that it didn't close til 1. Off we go.

So we go to Lubyanka Square, home of the building that housed the Cheka, NKVD, OGU, OGPU and (The only acronym you'll all know) the KGB. Same organization, different names(and different amounts of blood. the NKVD was the worst.)

So i snapped some pictures, saw a big poster for a NOFX concert in moscow on 29 August, which sucks; i'll have been home 11 days by then. No fair.

Then we went to find this big bookstore called Biblio-Logus, but it was closed already, so we decided to walk instead to this bar that Julia knew down by red square. Get there, have a beer(very expensive. it was 540r for 3---180r for 1 --- like $7.50. Ridiculous. Needless to say we only had one and then started walking towards the Church of Christ the Savior, which is far away but so big you can see it anyway. Got there, snapped some nice pictures. Unfortunately i don' tknow how to embed them in this joural so you'll all have to either check facebook or wait til i have them printed at home. Then we tried to leave, and went down into the metro station. the doors were locked. THE DOORS WERE LOCKED. at 11.30! i was right! it WAS 10 o clock that they close!

So we asked some russian women and they informed us that it really does close at 1, that that station is closed for something else. so we wandered around with a very nice russian woman and found another station and got home.

the slight sore throat from that morning had by now blossomed into a full on pain in the neck, and i could hardly talk. so we got back to MGU and i got some orange juice(apelsinovnii sok) and red tea, which according to the lipton commercial helps your immune system. drank them both last night and this morning and, unless it's just the advil, am feeling much better though a little runny in the nose.

well that's it for now, more updates on more interesting things later:
this weekend - izmailovsky park and souvenir shopping!

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Comments

[wouldeye]

beh
nofx on the 11th is a drag. so is being right and wrong at the same time. hey, i need you to translate something for me, eh? also, what does "lubyanka" literally mean?

[Markovich]

Whaddya need translated? Lubyanka doesn't really mean anything as far as i know. Lyub-- is the root 'to love' but i'm not sure if it means the same. probably but dunno.

[Lucy]

just excited for you
Wow, so much to see and do. Hope you can absorb it all. You will need to go back for certain. I am jealous and excited for you. Love ya.