Pretty simple day at work. More briefings...
Started my language class. It's nice to have a review, but it's all stuff I learned two semesters ago. They are JUST starting perfective and imperfective verbs and I'm pretty sure I learned that my second semester. Oh well...
Found out I will have quite the opportunity coming up here. I'll be able to tell you more later, but potentially it consists of meeting Gorbachev on friday, but at least by mid-March. I have to go to his Museum for work and one of the people I work with said the two times he went there to do the same thing we will be doing, he met him... so... fingers crossed
I also went to happy hour with some of the other workers... it was a lot of fun... they're super hilarious. Otherwise, eggs and corn for dinner again... ugh. Now bed, hoping for a full night's rest for the first time since I've been here.
Ashley,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the updates. It sounds as if the adventure is getting more serious with the security, job briefings and the language lessons. I'd be interested, as a government-geek, in what was, if anything, said about the signing of the SALT treaty by Sec. of State Clinton and the Russian Foreign Secretary last week. Perhaps that kind of talk is above your pay-grade (if you were getting paid) but maybe such a significant U.S.-Russian event, coming about when you arrived in Moscow, would have been a matter of some of your briefings.
Anyway, keep safe, work hard and keep the updates coming.
Tom Kuziej