busy busy dizzy

ok. i know y'all hate me, but i will have to live with that.

i am going to go through last week up until i left for St. Petersburg. Then i will probably do a couple of blogs for St. Petes.

so last sunday i didn't go to church but i went to a russian dacha (countryside home). It was actually the dacha of our russian program director at ANE (my university). We took a train out to the country side, our stop was New Jerusalem. funny i didn't know it was in Russia. Then our director met us there and he along with 2 taxises drove us to the dacha. the country side is really beautiful and also very green. i decided that i think i would live in my dacha rather than in the city. Oh. people only visit their dachas on the weekend. it is just a small getaway that has their garden. most dachas are really quite small and only have enough room to sleep really. Our director's dacha was actually pretty big compared to what other people in our group have experienced. It was like a nice little log cabin. it was great. once there we met Sasha's (our director) wife. and their 2 dogs which were so adorable. one was a black russian terrier and one was just a terrier. the black one was huge and only 6 months old. i didn't get a picture but you will have to look them up online. then we at dinner which was fantastic and pretty sure all of us ate too much. Then we went on a walk around his dacha looking at all the different plants and other dachas. it was really pretty. then we came back inside and had dessert and tea. i am becoming such a fan of tea here ..the herbal kind. especially on wet rainy days which have been happening pretty much everyday for the past 2 weeks. after dinner we just talked alot. and by we i mean the other people in our group. i was just fine listening and petting the dog. After that we went back to the train station and headed home. However, we hit sunday traffic of everyone going back to the city and stood for most of the hour and a half. it wasn't tooo bad actually.