Paaaarty!

We were at a great birthday party here in St. Peterburg last night. Our friend Maria from Salzburg turned 24. We met Maria and Julia in our first week at the registration office. We heard them talk “Austrian” and just introduced ourselves to them. That was a good thing to do.

We were a cool bunch of people celebrating Maria’s birthday. Maria, Julia and the two of us from Austria, Marina and Mischa from St. Petersburg and Sara, Iva, Merle, Joanna, Hilmar and Daniel, who are from Germany.  We were invited for dinner. It was delicious. We just looooooveeee curry. Yummy! We had a lot of fun. We were really curious about seeing their appartment and it is very nice indeed. It is interesting to see how exchange students live here in St. Petersburg if they don’t stay in a dorm. What a luxurious bathroom they have – with a state-of-the-art toilet!

It was very interesting that we ended up talking about cultural and language differences between Austria and Germany. We had quite some discussions going on and tried to teach each other different specific “Austrian” and “German” words. Although we are in Russia, we also learned some new aspects about one of our neighbouring contries.

However, “partying” seems to be a universal language. We didn’t plan to go out that night, but sometimes, if the feeling’s right, you just have to obey. Going out in St. Petersburg, in our case, has two “catches”:

1. The bridges disconnect (and this will be the case until the end of November), so there are no connections between the mainland and the islands. You can party like Cinderella and make sure that you take the last metro and get back home around midnight.

But even if it wasn’t for the bridges, there is another reason for going out really long, respectively coming back home early in the morning.

2. The dorm is closed from 1 to 6 am. So if you decided to go out clubbing, you better party all night long.

So if I tell you know that we went to the Griboedov club, you might as well guess that we had to stay out all night long. It was not an all too hard thing to do.

Thanks again, Maria, for the invitation – we loved the food (!) and partying with you. Anytime again

(anna)