Arriving at Volgograd State University,

The group reached Volgograd a week after leaving New York. Our dorm was this massive structure that stood 14 stories high. Quite a change from the Mansfield dorms.

The dorm rooms were laid out like apartments. There were two bedrooms, one with three beds the other with two.  I had one roommate in the room with me, her name was Olga, she was a nice person, but didn't speak a lot of English, and my neighbor Zhenya who lived in the room over from me alone. We had a little foyer for our shoes and whatnot and a shower room. The show was separate from the room with the toilet. Apparently Europeans find it disgusting to take a shower in the same room that you take a dump. Really, who can blame them?