Meeting new friends

I met some new people at the American Center yesterday, and we went out for tea and coffee afterwords. It was good because I could practice my Russian, and they could also practice their English. I have actually found a lot of people who would be willing to help me practice my Russian. Tomorrow is my last tutoring session, and I am sort of glad. This past week and last week (until today) I had a substitute because my original tutor was sick. I liked the substitute so much more than my actual tutor! With the substitute, two hours felt like only 2 minutes, and I didn't want class to end each day; with my original tutor, 2 minutes felt like 2 hours and I kept looking at my watch waiting for class to end. I think the other tutor had more patience with me. Sometimes we would just have conversations about life in Moscow and such, and I could practice my conversation skills; with my main tutor, we just do grammar exercises the whole time. One of the few American students left here leaves on Saturday, so there will be one less person to hang out with; however, the Stanford kids should be arriving soon, I think.