vrijdag 13 augustus 2010

practice makes perfect part part 2

Today we started the day quite early by heading off to the city to see Nastya, who wanted to torture us with the practice lesson so early in the morning. As long as thursday was a day of realoding batteries the friday's waking up part was not that scary. We met with Nastya at dom Knigi at Nevsky Prospekt ( the most popular bookstore in st petersburg).  Then after a cup of coffee in a lovely small caffee nearby we started our walk around the city. Nastya knows St Petersburg by heart, she not only showed us the places, which are quite unusual for the tourists, but she also got us into the culture and tradition of St. Petersburg. We walked through the housing estates, narrow streets, backyards everything what remined of the daily life. She explained the story of popular Russian Komunalki( which brought me the memories  of bread cards and shared apartments during the communism in Poland) and took us the the museum of Anna Akhmatova in the fountain house. Akhmatova was a famous  Russian poet and artist during the period of blockade in St. Petersburg, she reflects a portrait of a strong russian woman. Not being a feminist to be honest I think Russian women are more than one can expect from even a man.
After the practice we came back to the classess to the next doze of torture by the other Nastya ;) The grammar part was not that enjoyable as the sightseeing but our teacher managed to make it as little painful as possible.
the wallpapers in the museum
russian barcelona
recently im into lifts
that's the end of the day in terms classes but be ready the weekend has just started

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