Woke up fairly late, having not really planned to much today by sit and wait. I then read online that Faculty of Geology at Kazan State University had an impressive geology museum, owing to a royal charter from the 1800s. Left Adel's around 1230h, but got on the wrong trolly-bus and ended up miles away from where I was supposed to be. On the advice of a broken Russian-English conversation, I hopped on a bus that eventually (1hr later) got me downtown.
The museum turned out to have some really nice gem and fancy minerals from all over the Former Soviet Union. The other really cool thing was the reconstructed Mammoth that took center stage in the Fossil room. After the tour, I asked to talk to any of the Geophysics staff that might be around. Eventually, I was brought to the Dean of the School and had a pleasant (French) conversation with him over tea and biscuits. (They also don't have an SEG Student Section Chapter, and I told him all the goodies that students might be able to get, gave him the website addresses, and encouraged him to look in to it. I'll write you a separate email with that info later Candice!)
Headed back to Bauman street and eventually wandered home, stopping off at the market on the way for stew-based groceries. Arrived back at the flat and came face-to-face with a FedEx envelope! Extracted my card, did a little dance, and decided to head south the following day, because the PIN code wasn't expected until the 18th (and I didn't feel like waiting around three days for 16 bytes of information that could easily be texted to me). Made dinner, played the guitar again for a while, and then went to sleep. Early start tomorrow!
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