It is cold in Russia! I need to buy a coat today. I'm on Nevsky right now in a different internet cafe (I like this one better) and pondering where to buy it. Because in Petersburg everything either seems really sketchy, or everything is really expensive.

I learned the importance of phonetics last night; I told my host mother that I was going to the circus (sirk) instead of the church (tsirk). I only realized that she didn't understand me when she started asking about the lions and tigers!