Today is the 21st of
April, which makes it one and a half months until I can drink water from the
tap and walk across Waterloo Bridge. Words such as ‘Year Abroad Project’
are now really bad words and ones which inspire nothing but fear. Well, those
words and ‘Delayed Student Loan’.
The local temperature has recently
reached 13°C. I know I complained about the Arctic winter conditions, but all
my summer clothes are in various bin bags in London, Sussex and Kent…So,
Russia, I’m sorry! Let me wear my jumpers and thermals again!
Somehow I have also melted the
button on the kettle with the thousands of cups of coffee I’ve been drinking to
try and get work done. I have definitely spent too much of my (currently seriously
depleted) student loan on ‘Calming Music’ on iTunes to off-set the stress
caused by said (non-completed) work.
My attempts at speaking Russian
are becoming more and more ridiculous as my brain revolts against me in a fruitless
bid to speed up the remaining month and a half left here in Piter. Oh, and the
death-stare the shop assistant gave me when I asked where I could buy a kettle
could have boiled the entire Neva.
So, with a month and a half to go
I’m getting pretty desperate to be back in London. Saint Petersburg is
fantastic – it’s full of museums, cathedrals, bridges and wonderful experiences
to be had, But, I think it’s about time I thought about going home and
reclaiming the possessions I left scattered around the South East. Besides, it’s only fair to leave whilst my landlady still has some kitchen appliances that still work...
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