Earlier on today, 24 hours exactly after I should have, I finally touched down in St Petersburg! For those of you who don't know, yesterday I was misdirected to the wrong gate in Heathrow. It was a careless mistake that ended up with me "running" across Terminal 5 trying to make it to a flight from which I had already been removed. But since it was entirely the airline's fault they rebooked my ticket free of charge! Almost no harm done...
Unfortunately I didn't just miss the flight, I also missed meeting the other students. My classes don't start until Monday so I am not quite sure what I will do with myself for the rest of the week. Hopefully I won't have missed out on too much and the days will come together some how. From what I saw of the city during the drive from the airport and a brief outing earlier, it looks like a pretty beautiful place to do some solo tourism.
And at least I know I have a lovely place to come back to! I am staying with a couple and their very cute cat in their flat on Vasilyevksy Island. I was hugely relieved to find out they had wifi so I can now FaceTime and blog all from the comfort of my leopard print sofa bed. They are both incredibly generous in the way they speak Russian, giving me lots of opportunities to say my new catchphrase Я не панимаю (I don't understand). As someone who spends most of her time talking, it is extremely frustrating to be incapable of running my mouth off but I am sure it must be good for me in some spiritually cleansing way.
Feeling equally excited and nervous to see what these next few months have in store but I will make sure to share it all with you.
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