Made it to the Motherland!

It's hard to believe I've only been in Moscow a little over 24 hours. Just wanted to let everyone know that I made it here safely after a fairly uneventful trip (although I did make friends with both my Polish seatmate who was a theatre person herself, and the flight attendant who saw I was reading a Moscow guidebook and made sure to stop by at the end and wish me well during my time here).

I feel very well taken care of here so far. Mariana is sort of like the house mother on our floor (dramaturgs and voice student Jane, plus a couple of other American students who have been here for a long time), and I already like her a lot. We bonded over how much we love Heidi, and she was nice enough to take the 5 of us out to get cell phones on our first night at like 10:30pm (the place is 24 hours), and to the grocery store. We also have a couple of Russians around our age, Nastia and Polina, who look after us and are really nice. It's wonderful to have Jane around, since she did an undergrad program here 9 years ago and also spent a year in St. Petersburg...her Russian is pretty good and I've been sticking close by!

Weather isn't too cold, but the slush is plentiful and disgusting. I'm incredibly jet lagged and gonna go pass out now...better/more coherent/more interesting post in the future, I promise!