Wednesday rolls around, thankfully. Wednesday is like a mini-weekend in the middle of the week. True we spend the whole day at the AH, but we do that on the regularly weekends too. Galya arrived this morning and informed us that Joanna, who has been a little under the weather, is not coming to work this morning because she has ангина. For those of you who don't read Cyrillic, that's angeena (with a hard "g" as in "go.") It took a moment for us to realize that Joanna does not have a potentially fatal obstruction of the coronary artery, but rather a angina tonsilaris i.e. a throat infection. The Russian word for "sore throat" sounds as serious as a heart attack....bada-bing! I didn't mean to get into intimate details about Joanna's health, but the word confusion is rather interesting.
Actually, we are all hoping that she will be recovered enough to go with us on our trip to Petersburg, which is a whole 'nother story. We tried to get tickets from Vladimir directly to Peter for Firday night, but since it is a holiday, the train sold out. As is the one on Saturday night. So instead, we are going to take the Saturday morning train to Moscow and then catch one of the 3,264 trains from there to Peter. Failing that, we will give up and go to the Baltics instead. We are going to travel, we're not sure weather it will be to Peter (where we have a hostel reservation) or to Riga (where we can easily get one.) So in the mean time, we are going to cover Joanna's classes (I get to teach some extra BI's) and cross our fingers she is healthy and ready to go and that we can get some tickets to somewhere...
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