Because we live in dorms here on campus we have made friends with the guards. A few of them want to learn English so we help them practice and learn more English and they attempt to teach us some Russian. Usually that means that they laugh at our attempts to repeat after them. It's a great dynamic. Friday nights we like to go to classrooms with couches and watch movies on Laura's laptop. It's a ton of fun especially when the guards show up. The first time we were watching "Anastasia"(because we are in Russia) and the guards showed up. They were speaking to us in Russian as we charaded and spoke in English. As always, there was a lot of laughter on both sides and very little real communication. Eventually, they just shook their heads, waved us off and said "Goodnight!"
We have also learned that is you are friends with the guards, you can get in anywhere here. In the guard office they have a whole wall covered in key hooks and their accompanying keys. That being said there are also a lot of locked rooms in the school. One day Hailey, Breanna and I were exploring the school and we asked Peter, the front guard, where the auditorium was. Without hesitation he walked over to the key rings and pulled a set off. He motioned us to follow him and he unlocked the auditorium for us! When we had hid behind all the curtains, tinked around on the piano and admired the room enough we left and he locked up behind us. It was a great moment.
Another night the same guard asked us to teach him English. After the English lesson we were all sitting at his computer using the online translator. Pretty soon we were swapping funny YouTube videos with him. For the record- you don't need to speak the same language as someone to laugh at people falling off tables or getting their pants scared off.
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