April Fools

Today is April fools day but there isn't much joking going on here in Moscow. I am grateful that I live alone because I could just see this day going poorly for me if that were the case lol.
This week has been stressful and it is because the school that we are teaching in decided that they needed our supply room and that we are to be moved out of it in two weeks. At first I thought that this was an joke but it is not. 17 years of built up stuff is going to have to be moved into three small cupboards in a classroom that we use to teach. Needless to say it has been a trial to decide what stays, what goes, and what won't be missed. I am missing being on vacation. Getting back into real life after being away for a week is hard. It is all part of the great thing that we call life. It is no longer April Fools Day but it has been a rough week. I haven't finished cleaning out the supply room, I was verbally asaulted by one of my teachers, two people in my group approached me about the fact that they like each other and there is definatly some drama there. Not to mention the other member of my group is in love with a Russian girl that we met on our first vacation. I am a failure at being a head teacher. I am have made some new goals for the last two months of my time here, and hopefully, when everything is said and done I am a better person for it. My vacation to Finland and Sweden was crazy, I hopped from St Petersberg to Helsinki to Stockholm, back to Helsinki, back to St Petersberg, and then to Moscow for some R and R. I loved Sweden. I appreciated Helsinki and the temple there is one of my new favorites. The temple is Sweden was cool, but it was closed for remodeling and that was sad. We did get to stand in the Temple and that was ok, but I would have like to have seen the Baptismal font. (Since I can't see the celestial room.) Getting to both temples required me to do a lot of work and I organized with our tour guide Sasha the trip for most of the people in the Moscow ILP programs. It was hard, but worth it. The spirit is everywhere on the earth and it is nice to have that confirmation so strong.
My first cruise was on the way to Sweden and I have to say that I am glad that I have never been on another cruise before. Either my parents go on the most expensive and amazing cruise lines, and I am basing my cruise liner to theirs, or my ship was just one of the cheapest ever. My room was below two car decks, lol if the ship was taking on water, I would have been the first to know about it. I shared a cabin with Emily, Gabe and Sarah from Sosny. That was pretty fun and I am a heavy sleeper so the car alarms going off in the middle of the night didn't bother me at all. The first night I was tired and was out by nine totally missing the entertainment part of the cruise. Dinner was expensive and the waiter messed up my order and then tried to persuade me that the dinner he brought was really what I wanted more. Oh well. The blizzard we went through was a little bizar. I don't think cruise liners should go through blizzards. lol I am missing the sunshine and the warm weather that Utah usually has around this time of year but from what I hear about home it is still snowing there too. When I figure out how to make my SD Card read in someones computer, because this one refuses to read an 8 GB card, I will get some pictures of the trip up and running. I had a really good time and I am glad to be back in Moscow. There is more to the story, but it will be in a later blog.