DAY 3 and a Half: Im in MOSCOW!!!

Everyone was really sweet about my being ill yesterday/ today. They brought me medicine and tea and lots of water. Eliana held my hair as I vomited (which I thought was ultra sweet) and Kirsten gave me some medicine stuff that really settled my stomach. Several fits of vertigo took over me, but once I ate a good breakfast and drank about a gallon of water, paired with about 10 hrs of sleep, I was fine. We ate lunch at the cafeteria of the Moscow Art Theater… which means at any given moment, we are sitting next to/ sharing tables and food with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise (I mean these people are LE-GIT). This was a very humbling experience because I don’t EVEN want to know what I ate for lunch today. Pointing and saying pa-jol-sta was a task at hand… the servers looked at us in disgust. Who knows what I ate… it cost 5 bucks for lotta lotta food. After lunch, we still had two hours to spare, so we walked down Tverskaya (basically Times Square ). We walked into McDonalds and if I d say so myself, it was the swankiest Mickey D's I have ever seen in my life! High class and GREAT… I fit right in! It was absolutely clean and perfect and everyone there was in their Sunday's best... even the employees.lol… exactly how a McDonalds should be… it was also a bit cheaper! So by three, we were back at MXAT (the most accredited/respected theatre and school in the world, also, this is where I am studying) around noon and met our teachers (Sergei and Sasha) for the first time. This was very interesting because they do not speak English and we must communicate through a translator (which is fine, it actually great) because it makes us have to rely on things other than language. We have to read expression and body language and really be connected and ready to become your very own translator at any moment. He gave us awesome words of encouragement (via Tatyana, the translator): "Keep smiling, even though the Russians don't! It's your American flag, keep waving it and don’t let them make you depressed!" After introductions, we did MONOLOGUES! How fun and nerve wrecking at the same time. Of course, Kenya Alexander was first. Great. While I was prepared, I was not expecting to go first and was immediately nervous when my name was called… SMH. Started awesome. Had to stop and take it back. Embarrassing to say the least. But my classmates smiled at me and made me feel ok. I still hate myself though… since I got tongue tied and lost when our professors of acting don’t even speak the same language… WHAT WAS THERE TO BE NERVOUS ABOUT??? The Sergei stops and says, "We are not here to judge, just to get to know one another. Don’t kill us with your talent, Kenya !" Everyone laughs, including me and that breaks the ice for all of us. I am nervous no more, and in a way I was the sacrificial lamb for my class, because when I start over, it's amazing and everyone else was too! I cannot wait until acting class begins on Saturday though! Russian women (for the most part) are unusually tall and thin and pretty. Wonderful hair and awesome fashion. I never see any that look like they are wearing less than 2000 dollars worth of clothing at that given moment. The men are in Armani suits and look strong and angry… but again, unusually handsome. It's strange.

this is what u get when u order A BLACK RUSSIAN.