One down, three to go

I've been here a month now. Yep, a full month, full in many ways. Or at least two.

This weekend was a busy one, with visits to the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, the Dostoevsky Museum, and St. Isaac's Cathedrale. Good thing I don't have class on Monday, because my homework has been piling up. Here's a brief sketch of the shape of my week:

Monday: no class. I do work at home in the morning, and go to Smolny in the afternoon to check my email, etc.
Tuesday: Phonetics and Conversational Practice from 11 to 2:30 with a half hour break. Poli-sci class «Why Do I Hate You?» at 4:40 which I might end up dropping if the professor expects me, as an auditor, to write the massive papers.
Wednesday: SMI/AVK (I'm not sure what that stands for: we read the news) and Literature classes from 11 to 2:30
Thursday: Grammar at 1, then «Translating Literature to the Screen» (in Russian) from 4:40 to 8.
Friday: «Stalinist Culture before WWII» from 4:40 to 8.

Either on Friday or Thursday (I'm pulling for the former), I am to have piano lessons, for which I must practice somehow. My options are limited to Smolny pianos, which are available before nine in the morning and after eight at night. Urg. Sundays we often have excursions, such as the one yesterday to the Cathedrale. Excrusions are always followed by lunch, and yesterday's was at a Greek restaurant. I was excited until I realized that it was a Russian Greek restaurant, and the assistant program manager had ordered chicken Kiev for everyone. What?!

Also, I'm not sure my last post got sent out to everyone it needed to, so I will try to fix that. Stay healthy!