Day 22 The Walk that Never Ended:
Today the internet was finally working again and I found out that I had missed the deadline to apply for NYU on campus housing by 24 hours. I was very angry and this triggered a flurry of e-mail writing. Then, I met up with three other students at the mall--Val, Anna, and Adam and we decided to walk to the WWII front lines, which are just down this one street... Well, after about half an hour at a fast pace through middle of nowhere Russia we were starting to get tired, but decided to keep going, after an hour we were about ready to turn back, but I suggested that we go about another city block where there was a sign and a stopped wedding party, I figured that they had to have stopped to see something. Sure enough that was where the front line was. There was a tank and and some sort of gun, but that was it, we walked an hour to see it, it was about 5 miles each way as it turns out, plus the mile or so we walked in town first. Then we walked abck home and I had dinner and read.

Day 23 Not Nearly so Exciting:
Not a lot to say about Sunday, I slept a lot and read. my host sister had gone out the night before and had Absynth, so she was still drunk. I also studied for the test on Moday.

Day 24 Another Monday, Another Test:
We had the test, I got an 89. After class we went to the mall where I picked up (didn't buy) a book with advice about the differences in behavior in the West, one of the stranger things I read was that it advised people not to eat everything they are served in teh West, but rather to leave some food on the plate to show that they are not too hungry, I found that odd. Then I cam home and read/did homework. I also got an e-mail from NYU saying I might stll be able to get housing if I fax a document by 5pm their time, the only problem was that no one knows if there is even a fax machiene in Novgorod and it was 9pm, too late to try and find one, so I frantically e-mailed my parents in hope that they could send it.

Day 25 Today:
It's almost time for finals. We had a pop dialogue recitation test in Conversation today and I didn't do too bad. I also got a quiz back in that class that I got 100 on, not a surprise when the teacher corrected it and let me change my answers before I turned it in. After class we went to the other mall for a snack and some of the girls played MASH. I came home to get an e-mail from my parents saying that they had faxed the form and one from NYU saying that they had never recieved it. I am not sure what is going on there. I also finished a 750 page book, The Peacock Throne today. Further, I have started to make a study guide for the final on Thursday. Tomorrow we have an extra expedition to an archeological dig.