Housing Assignments

So we got our housing assignments. Very exciting. I will be living with Galina and Vasily Volnukhin, "sports instructor" and retiree respectivley on Malaya Sadova.

Now most of my knowledge of Russian Appartments is from the Soviet period, meaning that in my mind, i'll be staying here:

But from what i've heard things have improved since then. Anyway, Alyssa, another girl in my class is staying with my school-year roommate Katy's host from last year, which should be funny because the highlights of Katy's home stay included the time:

1. when her host baked a pie all day, filling the apartment with the aroma of warm pastry before declaring, "NOT FOR YOU" and leaving with said baked good for the remainder of the night

2. when her host put a whole frozen fish in her purse from the freezer while eyeing them suspiciously before leaving

and

3. when her host fed her warm cereal and rice...no, wait, that was all the time.

i could not be more excited!