Oh what a day to have our first day off, Easter. for this day a few of the students got to go to the Sunday service, which I heard was pretty interesting, definately out of the normal. I heard it goes on all day and people are allowed to come in and leave whenever they please, sounds pretty awesome, I wish I had gone. however I had my own interesting event happen. The students who stayed behind got a sincere taste of the hospitality of Teymor. Some of us decided to sleep in on our first day off and relax, but Teymor wouldn't let us. To him everyone had to eat breakfest and he would not pick up until we had, he was literally worried we wouldn't eat! I was woken up by a fellow student and told to go eat because Teymor was waiting for the rest of us to eat, and when a fellow student and I walked downstairs, sure enough he was waiting and hurried us into the room to eat. Afterwards all of us who stayed joked about how he is like a substitue grandpa to us, making sure we are well fed and worrying about us. Since we had a free day a few of us decided to head out into the city and check out the sights, so six of us got together and walked the city. Our destination was the chocolate museum and all of us were excited to check this place out, but were in for a huge surprise. After walking for what seemed like ages, we arrived. Walking in we thought we had found the gift store and were awkwardly looking for the museum, but this is when reality struck us, the name of the chocolate store was the Chocolate Museum, never the less we all took our time to enjoy the store and look at all the chocolates. We proceeded to leave and explore the city, two of us joked about how we would get lost, and we did for a little while. However, it was a blast exploring the city and finding all these other places down the back streets and through some alleys, but on occassion we did look like fools entering a place and leaving when we didn't know what to say or really what we were doing. We must have entered 20 different places, got a funny look or a "please sit" before we turned and left, but again we are in a foreign country, that is part of the experience. When we decided we had enough exploring, it was time to head back to the Hostel and get some dinner, we figured if we found something on the way we would eat, if not making food was a good second option. A fellow student saw a restaurant called the CCCP, and being a history buff he thought we should go there, and we all agreed. This place was nice, it had a dark room theme and was really laid back, it was kind of like an upscale club, but a restaurant. We all ordered our food, after struggling with communication, and figured we would enjoy it. We got our food and all decided the food was ok, but we definately had to eat there to get the experience, but when the bill hit us we all got wide eyed. The average cost of the meal was 500 rubles, roughly 13 dollars. We all paid and decided that since it was a one time thing it was cool, but we would not be returning. We took pictures of the place and proceeded to head back to the Hostel, where we called it a night, and boy did we sleep like babies.
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