Lucia and I went to visit Marina at her dormitory. We weren't even sure they'd let us in, but they gave us blanket permission to return. Lucia is so brave! Marina seemed to be doing very well. Marina's room mate was just moving in. Her name is Olya and she is studying sewing with Marina at the technical school. Age 17, she was put in the orphange at 15 because she kept running away from an abusive, drinking family. They put her with Marina because neither of them smokes or drinks, "our good girls." She's so sweet, I liked her a lot and we invited her to visit our apartment and consider living there. We took them to MacDonalds to talk.
We met two girls hanging out in the stairs, Dasha and Ira. Ira had a cigarette in one hand a beer in the other, yet her face was so young and innocent and Lucia chatted with them for a long time, and they though my accent was cute. We plan to return and have tea with them all on Thursday.
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