Saint Petersburg trip.

18- 21.06.2016

It was raining, we met with our friends and went to the port. We met our class at 4 PM, got the tickets we needed and went to the ship. Our ship was going to set off at 7 o´clock night time. At first we went to our cabins, 4 people in one. We were there for a bit and then went to 7 Seas to eat dinner. After dinner we went to our cabin and visited our friends around us. After a while our class had took some drinks. I don´t drink at all, I drink water. We talked until 2 AM and then we went to bed kind of, we waited for the teacher to go away to get the pillows and a phone back that boys took from us. This doesn´t end here, the boys started knocking at our door. It woke us up and we couldn´t sleep. A girl from my room decided to have a shower in the middle of the night because she couldn´t sleep and she would have done it anyways in the morning. After the boys finally told us, what they wanted (asked if we wanted to watch a movie) and we refused because we had to wake up at 7. We slept for 3 hours until 6:25 AM then we washed and went to 7 Seas again. I had to get another cabin key, because mine stopped working. I don´t speak Russian very well, like I don´t know much words.
After eating breakfast we arrived to the port.
Teacher told us to get our arrival card out, but then they asked for our boarding card and 2 girls had lost it. We got out and waited for them for like an hour.  They made them a new card and then the teacher asked them, why they need it if we aren´t coming back today to this ship. Then the worker said:"OH! You´re not coming back? OH! Then you don´t need that card." We got out, we were in front of the port and a boy just vomited (ew), he wasn´t seasick.  We went to two separate mini buses. We rode really close to St.Isaac´s Cathedral. We had an hour before the next bus ride so we got to walk a little by ourselves.

Monument to Nicholas I

 We went to the next bus, it was like a tour bus, but it was raining so we didn´t go out, only once.
We walked to our hostel, got there and they tell us that we have to go to the other one of theirs (uhh), we were so tired.  When we got to our real hostel, we had to wait for half an hour, everyone were on the ground sitting or sleeping. We went to our rooms and fell asleep for an hour, then we went out.

We somehow managed to get to Galeria. We ate there, I got some sushi and drank a juice. Some ordered from Burger King, some from a Chinese place. There was 7 of us in the shop. After eating we started shopping at first with the group, but a little bit later we decided that 4 of us didn´t want to go to every shop, so we separated from them and set a time to meet them. Off we went to like Zara and shops like that.

Kazan Cathedral

Matryoshka doll

Pic from Zara´s page, it really looks like this.

Spoon Zara

I bought a spoon (hahah) ,some
Russian candy, magnets, a matryoshka doll, necklaces, a ship and a key chain. These were all gifts, I bought myself the spoon and a black egg necklace. Zara Home had the whole set of that colored cutlery, I want them so badly. That night we went to the riverside of Neva to see the Palace Bridge.













 It was 2 AM. We got back and were talking for some time and went to bed.
Next day others wanted to go to Galeria as well, so the teacher decided to go there by subway/metro with the whole class.
We walked with our 7 people group again. We ate at a really retro looking restaurant called Varenichnaya No.1 .
I really enjoyed that we all had a coloring sheet on the table and some pencils. After that we went to Galeria to get some things we forgot the day before. It took us the whole day pretty much, we were leaving that night so we had to be at the port by 5 PM.We were a little late because we didn´t know when the bus was coming, how long the ride was and if we were on a right bus.

We got to port and went to the ship, ate and went to our cabins. My cabin key didn´t work again and they just then told us not to keep it close to your phone (I kept it in my phone case). We were talking in our cabin and some boys joined us. It ended up being 9 of us (or more, I have a really bad memory) they stayed because at least 2 of them couldn´t go to their room because it stank cause someone vomited, one lost his key and couldn´t get in and didn´t want to wake his mates up. We talked and played games until like 5;30AM then we realised we needed to sleep cause we had to wake up at 7 o´clock.  I slept for 30 minutes maybe, I was so sleepy and it was really hot there.
In the morning we woke up because someone was knocking on the door. It was already past 7 and we just started running pretty much. We put our things into our bags and at the same time someone knocks cause he wants something he forgot here and we were just really busy. Alot happened at the same
time. Someone wanted to go to the bathroom to get his things  but someone was there so he had to just wait. I think you already get it, that we were in a hurry. We got our things, got out of the ship and now we were in Finland, Helsinki. We didn´t get out of the port, we had an hour before the next ship. We all sat on the floor and most of us fell asleep. Then we got to the ship, took a table and I just fell asleep on it and woke up a bit before we arrived and went to the shop with my friends.

End of that trip.