Today I was not allowed to cook. oh well--- at least I got to help out in English class--- I answered a lot of questions about American media and television. It was the senior class so they were almost fluent in English. I was impressed and surprised, because the jr class has terrible English.  Today Valentina Yurpalova's friend came over with her husband. She used to be an English teacher so her english was naturally pretty good. It was a good oppurtunity to express myself to the Yurpalov's in way's that i would not normally be able. The food was good, I had my first Russian ice cream. It was good. I had some cow tongue boiled in salt water. It was not bad. I had some caviar today. It was---not bad.