Today I met the two other AFS students in my school: A german guy and a Swiss girl----They are very nice nad they have been here for six months so they are nearly fluent in Russian.

I played a game of basketball today. The teams were mixed and the girls were very good and very aggressive. All of the players were extremely intense which made it a lot funnier when they missed or tripped on each other. :)  Despite their intensity they all had very good sportsmanship. I look foward to playing basketball again.

I feel that, although I have only been here for four days, my knowledge of the language has tripled. I

Women are quite overrepresented in the workforce of Russia. I know that women outnumber men here, but not enough to account for this.  :)

I had some really amazing peach juice today.

I had this awesome idea for remembering different body parts: I write the name of the body part in ink on the boday part. So far it has worked very well. I remember the words, and the Russians think it is "wery genius, wery wery geniusfunny" that is a word in russian english; "geniusfunny"