More fun in Kyiv

The weather has been much warmer and things are going well! Last week we went to a soccer game-Kyiv's team Dynamo again Spain (Valencia). That was really exciting-the crowd was crazy and we all had such a good time. Although trying to get to the metro after the game was a nightmare. There were so many people and we were all just being pushed toward the street; most of people were drunk and trying to ask us questions, and then they would get all confused when we started speaking English. I'll just say that I have a bruise on my leg because the crowd was so crazy that night!

The other day when I was at the grocery store with Audrey (my roommate) I accidentally spoke Spanish instead of Russian! haha. When the lady asked how many bags I wanted, I said "dos" instead of "dva." It was really funny-never thought I would speak Spanish on accident, I thought for sure it would be English. I always seem to have interesting experiences at the grocery store. The first time I went there, the cashier started yelling at me in Russian and I had no idea what I was doing wrong. She then made sure I understood that I had to follow her, and she showed me that I needed to get a price-tag thing to put on the produce I was going to buy. I was used to having them just do it when you pay for it in America! I also got lectured by a Babushka in a grocery store once-I think maybe I was standing in her way? I don't know. 

It's always funny when things like that happen though because, for the most part, I have no idea what they are trying to tell me. I'll tell them "I speak English" or "I don't understand" in both English and Russian, and sometimes that we still try to talk to me. They usually get really frustrated and then walk away or STILL keeping trying to talk to me. It's really funny to me that some people will still try to talk to me even after I tell them that I don't speak Russian. I just kind of stand there and stare at them until they are done and then shrug my shoulders because I have no idea what they are saying.

The other day we went to our head teacher's apartment (Cassidy) and looked through the closests there. We found some really cool old clothes, hats, and books. It was fun to rumage through a really old Ukrainian apartment and find all that stuff.