4 days

Hi! I am here in foreign land for 4 days already! The internet just back yesterday. So, only started to blogging now. I am becoming lazier to blog nowadays and I realized my English is becoming weaker. Weaker? Anyway, got to brush up my English for blogging now! hahaha…

Okay..lets start from ……

The time I got scared by my room key! On my way to board on the plane from Dubai to Moscow, I was thinking of what to do after I step into my room 610, suddenly I thought about my room KEY!
That time only I thought about it! I never thought of my key while I was packing for my luggages!
My goodness!! Was searching the key in my memory, thinking where would I put it! Why I never thought about it! Oh no! NO key to my room???? I got to wait for Josephine to come back? That will be how many days??? Hmmm… Impossible…. I think I must have put it inside the luggage since the day I unpacked my luggage at home. Must be in the pocket of the luggage. MUST BE! Lets pray…

We all arrived in Moscow at around 4.00pm.. After went through all the visa checking and baggage collecting, it was around 5 pm, and the van was waiting for us outside the airport already.

I exchanged my 100 usd. It was so ‘rugi’ changing in airport! At first, she only gave me 1000+ for 100usd! Huh? I asked her how much altogether, then she only realized she got it wrong…. So, gave her back all the money, and she recounted and gave me back the right amount. Forgot how much is it cause it minus some commission….

The van cost 9500rb divided by 8 people. So we just collected 3000 rb from 3 people and 500rb from me and paid it first. Others, will be counted after we got back to Kursk.

Arrived Kursk at around 1 or 2 am. Haha..dont really know…. Cause busy carrying all the luggages.

I brought up all my belongings to Johnny’s room first, which is in 3rd floor. No lift, so just put in his room first. First thing of all, find my key! Yea! It was in my luggage’s front pocket. Hohoho..
Thank God…. The keyS are very important, cause it has the keys to 3 rooms! Phew…..
So, got my key to my room! Yea! If not, I thought I have to ‘tumpang’ in some one’s room…
But, but, bryan, his room lock had changed, so even though he has the key, he cant enter his room, so he slept on shi how’s bed first that night, and then got back to his own room the next morning…

Bring my hand carry and my laptop up to my own room…Left the big red luggage in Johnny’s room first…. Before that, helped Diana took her handcarry up first.. then my own turn.

Step into my room, both toilet and bathroom were dark! Meaning, bulb ‘rosak’. Changed both of it…

This is what I saw when I step into my room…. Stuff stacked like small mountain on Josephine’s bed..
That are all her friend’s stuff who is moving in from premed hostel. The stuff will be there till 1/9/08. After that, her friend will move it to her own room which will be in 8th floor.

Wanted to take bath, but only hot water. NO COLD WATER!! Oh!!! How I wish I am at home now!!
Never mind…. The first few ml of hot water was rather cold….so.... collected the water with pail, and only got to bath without washing the hair.

Then, got my bed ready and sleep! Good thing I brought back a new blanket from the plane. So used the new blanket first. It was around 3 am already.

The next morning, Saturday morning, around 10.30am, planned to pass up our visa, and paid for the registration fee. Visa can only be renewed one month before it due. Mine will be due in November, so only can be renewed in October.

Too bad, the office was not opened, so only can passed up on Monday… So, we all walked to the nearest supermarket EVROPA… still remember? Haha…

They all went for lunch.. I just bought one 5 litre mineral water and one 0.9 litre juice for its bottle. Sad to say that, I left my water bottle in the plane. I think it dropped up when I take my blue bag out from the ‘overhead’ cabin of the plane from KL to Dubai. I felt that was something gone inside the bag, I check the dumplings…all inside ler…then I thought I think too much… so just forget it….

When I got inside the Dubai airport, wanted to fill my water bottle, then only I realized I lost my water bottle! Sorry dad…. Hehe…

Bought 2 mineral waters with 1 usd… 1 mineral water cost 1 dh (derha? Dubai currency). Got 1 dh change back some more. Cheap right? In KLIA, Bryan they all wanted to buy mineral water but in the end didn’t buy, cause it was too expensive… not RM2 but RM6!! All out of the RM 2 budget. Haha…

Then lent the 1 dh to khian lu for another mineral water.

So, after bought the stuff I wanted, walked back, it was raining that Saturday morning, very light rain…
No worry… brought my umbrella….

Back to my room, went down bring up my luggage, step by step…up to my floor…slowly…hahaha…
Thought there will be lift, but too bad, no lift up, only in the morning got lift, afternoon, don’t know why the lift was off….

Nevermind la, carried my red luggage slowly …slowly… so no worries….

Unpacked all the stuff…arranged all the stuff….
Then, soaked my snoopy blanket and pillow cases…. After 30 minutes…I pressed pressed it in the pail…then rinse it with the hot waters…cause only got hot waters…

Then dry it in the room… bring my heater near to it… on the heater to the max… the blanket and pillow cases will be dried by the night… then I can sleep with it already!

Okay..Sunday morning… what did I do?? Still, tidying my room a bit…washed a few clothes and my red jacket with hand, cause the washing machine is not ready yet, cause, no cold water also on the first floor!!! Why no cold water? The hostel is running the renovation room by room, so that is why the cold water is off…. Renovation is now in 3rd floor… Johnny’s bathroom is in the process now…

See the red jacket with heater under it..haha…

Khian lu joked that we are like coming to a after-war place to live. Haha…. Place where war just ended..everything is still in construction…..

No cold water, how to bath? Well, the other wing of my floor has cold water, so I brought back a pail of cold water back to my own bathroom, mixed with hot water to bath lor…cause the hot water now is really hot…cant bath…haha…

Monday morning…. Knew that our first cycle will be surgery, for 3 weeks, we went to the far hospital first, then reached there, the teacher there told us that, our class will be in another hospital with another teacher, which is nearer to our hostel… so we got into the bus, 40 minutes ride to the correct hospital…

Saw our teacher, is an old teacher… heard the old teacher is very nice… hmmm..Lets see…
He brought us around the hospital…. Then told us the topics for next class….back to hostel..
That Monday class, only me, lynn wei, Johnny, bryan and Kelvin, 5 of us from our group presented…
Others will be arrived on Tuesday morning, today.... except Andrew who will be departing on 5th of Sept.

In the evening, went to supermarket, shopped for dinners foods….well, back to the same foods we ate 2 months ago, frozen veggies, nuggets, pelmeni, and cabbage… chickens oso…

Tuesday morning, 8.30am, walked out from our hostel to buy a tram card. Cause, it will be cheaper with that card compared with the daily paid. Lets count…
8 rb to go, 8 rb to come back… to and fro… 16 rb…
Lets say 5 days a week, 16rb x 5 = 80rb
3 weeks, 80 x 3 = 240 rb… which we have to spend in transport…
If we bought the card, the card is only 150rb, but that for student. So, we have to buy it with our student card. If for adult, it will be 340rb.

This is the card… the 9 there meaning September…so only can used in September….

There are other cards too, card for only tram, card for only trolley bus, card for only long bus, and also has combination card which can be used for tram and trolley bus and so on….
All that are only worth for students and other who always need the transport services.

So, we just show our card to the tram conductor…then we don’t need to pay..
The card can only be used in 1 month time.
Around 10 minutes ride to the hospital… it was very near, but the tram is too slow, so 10 minutes is needed…but still good…cause cheap…hohoho….

Today was very sunny… but cold… according to yahoo weather broadcast, it is only 6 degree….
Don’t know if it is 6 degree or not…..but it is cold….

University and Russian life is back again after 2 months holidays…. How I wish the holidays could be forever….but it is impossible… Life is LIFE….. so get rid of it.. and go on…
Slowly adapt to the hostel life,
where you have to share the room with 2 roomates,
where you have to dry your clothes in your room…
where you have only one small part in the room belongs to you…
where you have to off the pictures cause pictures consumed more bytes…unlike the unlimited internet at home….

The only good things here is NO MOSQUITOES….
Hahhahaha……

Still missing home badly… I realized I don’t really miss home the first day I came here…
But why year by year, I miss my home more and more? Why? Cause my home has unlimited internet now..hahahaha…maybe that’s one of the reason but
Really, HOME really is the best place to be…
Thank God, for a good home…..

Missing home…. Missing my family…… hahahahaha……But, there is not much time for that now, cause I need to WORK hard and also study hard! Hohohoho…so.. “JIA YOU”!!!!!


…long time didn’t write such a long post liao…. Hahahaa….