Kazan — summer 2014

My body seems to be adjusting. The last three days I've automatically awakened around 6:00 p.m., which is roughly what I do at home. Spiffy.

I turn on my computer to check e-mail. Damn. There is a request for an emergency contact test to make sure our means of communication are all clear. We just replaced one of the student's self phones yesterday. Wonder if she has put her SIM card in yet?

So I send out the contact request right away by text message and follow it up with e-mail. I get five prompt responses. Guess I know who the early risers are now. Myself, back in the States I often turn my cell phone off. I wonder if people under thirty ever do that? They are in Russia, so they won't be having quite the phone habit they have in the States, I expect.

Time to get in the shower. How much do you want to bet that I get three calls while in it?