Привет из Ст. Петрбурга!

Finally

… the very first blog entry from St. Petersburg, we are sending a big hello from the library of the Journalistic Faculty.

It is colder here than back home: not only outside, but also in all the rooms, since the heating, which is centrally regulated by city administration, has not been turned on yet. This might also explain our Russian IKEA picture, just in case anyone of you wonders about it. We haven’t had time yet to do sight-seeing, but have already been to IKEA to get BLANKETS, plates, glasses, candles and lots of Swedish cookies and Christmas tea.

Cultural Differences

It might seem as if we weren’t here for studying, but that’s not true at all. We have already had classes and got an impression of Russian lifestyle. We still have to get used to some cultural differences – boys just won’t shake hands with us. But it’s good to know that is not only us, but that in general, they only like girls for “cooking and making kids”. Let’s just give it another spin: it might just be that GIRLS don’t want to shake hands with boys. We’ll try to figure that out …

We still have to get our registration fixed this afternoon. After that, almost all organisational issues are settles. Now we have documents and cards for everything: we have SIM cards, student cards, university entrance cards, dorm entrance cards and we are pretty sure that there are still more cards to come.

We don’t want to promise anything, but for some of you we might even get postCARDS.

(carianna)