Nikola Tesla Museum

Today I knew I had to Skype at 4, so Sonia and I started out early for the Nikola Tesla Museum. While we waited there In The hallway for Fouad to meet us, the cashier and the tour guide started talking to us. It was the usual: where are you from? Where do you work? We did pretty well with making ourselves understood and understanding them because even the tour guide didn’t speak English. It turns out the tour guide is in her 5th year of studying geography in Kazan. She came all the way to Kazan from Vladivostok, which is all the way over on the Pacific Coast. Fouad got there and we were taken by the guide into the one room museum. First we had to put on plastic shoe covers, of course. The room was basically filled with some of his experiments. It was a hands on type of thing and she explained everything to us in Russian. Once, when we really didn’t understand, We used a translation on the phone. That works too! We spent an hour there before we walked down to Cafein and had some lunch. It was nice to come in from the cold because the wind was bitter today. Tomorrow I have another Skype, then Sonia and I plan to have lunch at Amigo Miquel, which appears to be open again.After that, we head for a basketball game. They are always so much fun. Fouad and Ravil will meet us there. This is really a group of people you could steal horses with. Everybody’s up for any adventure and we all enjoy living in Kazan. Guess I’ll get my lesssoN plans done today so I don’t have to write them down at the last minute tomorrow. I’ll let you know how the game goes. And next week we have tickets for a women’s volleyball match. Kazan is at the top of the league, so this should be exciting. And the stadium is near us. Hooray.