Friday, July 3, 2015

Arrival and Elevator Music

Today I arrived in Moscow.  Now, I will attempt to comment very little on things outside of music or those things unrelated to my research.  This is, after all, a music blog.

However, a few observations:

- Drivers rarely use their horn.
- Food, especially street food, is cheap.
- Don't exchange your money at an airport if you can help it.  Exchange it at a bank.
- I need more time to process things in Russian than I do in English (no duh, right?).
- It's difficult to find the name of the subway station when the metro pulls up to the station.  I think I'll have to count how many stops we make every time, or learn to read faster in Cyrillic.

and finally...

- I heard street musicians today!  In the subway.  And it was actually a string trio playing "Time to Say Goodbye."  Despite the elevator music choice, I was very impressed with how they sounded!

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