American In Moscow: зоопарк

so for the elections, I went to the Starlite Cafe, an american style diner that's open 24 hours. Some of my friends stayed from midnight until school the next morning, but I slept at home and joined them around 6 am. It was so exciting- there were tons of Americans sitting around, heckling, cheering when Obama won another state. There was a group of American students sitting next to us, apparently they were studying at drama school. When Obama won and the restaurant erupted into cheers, one of the drama girls burst into tears and began sobbing. That was a little weird... and she kept sobbing during his acceptance speech. A photographer came around and was taking pictures of all of us. Then we headed off to school, and everyone was exhausted but happy.

Let's see... we took an excursion Friday to the revolutionary museum. High point- there were kittens outside. Low point- super boring, and two hours long. Also really intense and hard to listen to for more then 10 minutes at a time. Then we went to the White House, stood far away and just looked at it, which is about all you can do with the white house. Then I went to the zoo. Somehow, the fact that it was 30 degrees outside wasn't too appealing to everyone else, because no one wanted to go to the zoo with me. So I went alone and had a fine, cold time. I got to see an exhibit on "american cockroaches" which was gross. Why would they ever be in the zoo? I will include a picture of what an american cockroach's natural habitat, or apparently what every american house looks like.

And then yesterday Paige and I went to the Tretyakov Gallery, one of the most popular museums in Moscow. It was pretty cool, but exhausting.

Anyways. Pictures!