Teacher bonding time

So this week I got moved from kinder garden to levels. I was really excited to

Move up to the older kids, but the first day I did it I was so sad cause I missed my kinder garden class! Seriously how can you not miss this!! 

This little boy is dripping with sweat cause he constantly runs around during our two hour class! One of my favorites for sure

On tuesday night we went to FHE with the ward, which was very fun. When we got to the door to call up, the missionary I played one-on-one volleyball with answered and told me " say elder Naylor is better at volleyball". I replied with a " I will not say such blasphemy". Fortunately he was nice enough to still buzz us in:)

On Thursday night I hung out with a couple of the girls and we made these Russian pancake like cheese dessert things. We got some delicious pistachio ice cream! Oh I try to block this part out but we also tried pickled fish... 

Friday night we planned a "girls weekend" type thing. We go stuff to make home made pizzas, nail polish for painting, and tickets to a ballet on Saturday night! 

Friday comes and I am stoked! Lindsay, Ashley, sheala and I were all done earlier so we sat in shealas apartment and laughed and laughed about silly jokes. We blasted beyonce and drake and it was a blast! We made pizzas, then watched vines for about 2 hours. I decided we were going to make grapefruit mojitos, and found some stuff to make a makeshift one.

these were pretty good, but not as good as the ones my mom and I make. Everyone loved them, and I wished I had bought more stuff to make more! yay! 

I mentioned to the branch president that we wanted to learn some Russian, so he called someone to be our Russian teacher, so on sat morning we met at the church to learn some Russian!

This is me and my girl Brie! Seriously this girl is my other half! I love her! 

This is Brie, and Madi sleeping on our long bus ride to go shopping yesterday.

As we were shopping we saw this girl, seriously look at her coat, it's magnificent!

Madi and Brie bought Russian hockey jerseys, they were totally cool! I now wish I would have gotten one, but they were about $70 bucks. 

we got all dressed up for the ballet, and we had left the tickets in the school, which we don't have a key for. We called the owner of the school, and he drove all the way over but then his key wouldn't work. Then he went over to the cleaning lady's house, and her key wouldn't work either. Russians have lots of superstitions, and bad things happening in 3's is a bad sign. So we decided since we were all dressed up we needed to do something. We ended up going to this cafe type place, called Barrack O'Mamas. 

Barrack's was jammed pack full and was so fun to be there because the Russia vs. Usa hockey game was playing. It was so loud, I couldn't talk to brie without yelling. It was so awesome when we won, we wanted to yell so loud but figured we valued our own lives a little more.

We went to another resturant to eat, Bri and I got a Calzone, It was pretty good!

I finally came back to my host families house, and they had eaten all the See's Chocolate without me, you could say I was slightly sad, but then i realized I did give it to them as a present. It was a really fun week, I am so excited to go to church, it is one of the funnest things I get to do all week!

love riss