Expensive and cheap
My journey started in the end of last month. My flight went well, and as I landed and collected my bags, my buddy Anya was already waiting for me near the exit. I like it, the buddy system, especially when you don’t speak Russian when everything is pointed out in Russian. Together, we headed for the campus by train. It was already dinnertime and we ate in a fancy restaurant in the neighbourhood. Very cheap, for only six Euros I had a salad, meat and potatoes and something to drink.
The next day I had to arrange a few things, like a Russian SIM card, a new visa for my stay here, a college card and a card for the dormitory. Everywhere you enter, there are guards. You cannot enter the school without your college card and the same counts for the dormitory. Safety is very important here, but it hasn’t bothered me yet.
You have to imagine that I am living in a city now, which has as many inhabitants as our little country. They also told us that we won’t have hot water at the campus during September… That will be a cold shower! Well, it will make me awake at least.
The study hasn’t started yet, so I have enough time to experience the nightlife in Moscow! I had a night out Thursday. And the rule here is that you cannot leave or enter the dormitory between 01.00 and 06.00 AM. So we left at five to 01.00 AM and continued the party till seven o’clock in the morning to return by underground. The rumours about Moscow being an expensive city are true. A normal beer costs approximately 200 rouble which is the same as five Euros.
I won’t get bored in the next months, because there is a lot to see and experience in this giant city. As the Muscovites say; Moscow never sleeps…
