Today went much better than yesterday
I guess I just needed to get some complaining out. Today, I did get all my reading done, except for a book that he said to research specific instances. I had my tutorial, which Mark had forgotten I was coming to because we had switched days. He had also forgotten to read my chapter draft, but I had some other stuff to talk about, and he seemed impressed with what I had. So I decided that if one of my tutorials is going well, usually the other one is not. I’ve had the first four weeks go well with IR, and now hopefully I’ll have good ones for my thesis. Then I had dinner with the new girl heading the international programs at Georgetown who is here now, and the other Georgetown girls.
AND (this is the most exciting since I capitalized “and”) just now I had my first Russian lesson with Kyle! He took me through the alphabet by typing them in skype chat and then telling me how to pronounce them over skype. Not the best way to learn because sometimes our voices are little harder to understand when you’re going over pronunciation, but it’s fun and this will get me started. Which by the way, I decided I’m going to learn Russian so Kyle and I will be cool like Ula and her boyfriend who can just go into another language and speak to each other. And now he’s quizzing me by sending me stuff typed in Russian in advertisements. He says I’m doing well, but he might be biased.