Metro...whaaaaat?!

Say hello to our new life.

 

 Right, now...If you can find Kievskaya you will be able to locate where we are stationed (well, when we aren't metro-ing)

1. Look to the left of the map.

2. Find the little black aeroplane.

3. Find the grey circle. This is where we function from mostly.

Now from here, you can travel on all the different lines in the directions you need to go to find clients. If you're looking at this map, thinking,"But how?" I would like you to take a moment to be proud of us for being able to work this out within a week. 

Our system this week has been one of turning finding a client's address into a day's adventure. So we'll start the day by waking up way too late as I think we are still working on South African time. Then we attempt to wake up Freddie (which always takes longer than expected) and then we make him be a tour guide. 

Finding the Metro to take is not even the most difficult part. In Moscow, everyone seems to generally live in apartments but the apartment blocks don't have too much of an order to follow so you generally find yourself just wondering around looking for the right block. Once you have found the right block,you must then find the right entrance, followed by putting in a code and then passing through two doors. Afterwhich you must pass through the security/office lady/scariest person ever...this usually leads to you repeating the word, "angliyskiy" (english) over and over until they are defeated with a rolling of their eyes. SUCCESS!

On Monday, we ventured to find VDKh on the orange line for Maree's client. We saw some unbelievable sights on the way including the space museum and just general amazingness. (The pictures can be found on Facebook). Our adventures always in food and in this case, it was a place called Moo Moo's where it worked like a diner and offered very interesting and delicious food! Most of the time, it's a hit and miss situation where we don't always know what we're getting...this time was a hit!

Today, our Metro-ing was off to my client on the red line at the stop called Universitet. Our 100 lane street in front of Dean's apartment was strangely quiet with not a car insight. There were police cars racing up and down clearing the road for an oncoming VIP...Suddenly a team of black cars with a limousine in the center came racing down the road while everyone kind of stopped their lives (for once) and stared as it passed by. Then-life went back to it's normal fast pace.  Along the way, we went on the metro which took us over the Moskva River which is frozen over. Walking to my client, we went passed a school where the children were having snowball fights and the buildings were breathtaking.
We went back to the stop where we could walk along the river and saw one of the olympic stadiums as well as some people skiing of steep slopes.
Again, we ended up having the best lunch at an American restaurant TGI Fridays where there were people who were happy to see us and spoke English! Yay!

I ended my day singing "head, shoulders, knees and toes" with the cutest little 4 year old who called me her goose. I feel like I achieved in life today.