Author: murphyzhang

metro is our main transportation in Russia, it gets us to all the places we want to be and never disappoint us. The metro reaches every corner of the cities, and each of them has their own feature and style, I could not help to take a lot of picture. I also realized that Russian people are always so quiet in the train, it’s very easy to distinguish who is local and who is not.

Met this Fans from China on the way to the Bazail game with Lisa, we decided to jump in their picture because the this national flag of us. More than 40,000 tickets were sold to Chinese fans this World Cup, even though the Chinese National Team is never here. But I believe we will be here, we just need a little more time. 

Meeting with Dave from Infant is definitely my favorite guest lecture in Russia. Infant is now working with Wanda, and they brought Wanda to this World Cup, I am happy to see more Chinese brand participating in the world class competition as a Chinese. I want to do what Infant is doing now. 

just had meeting with Andre from Octagon , and had a chance to visited the budhotel because of him. And it was great to know about their work with Budweiser. He also showed us the Budweiser studio which I was pretty impressed about

Winter Palace was the official residence of Russian Monarchs,  and now the building is housing the museum which one of four most famous museum in the world. It took us an hour to get the tickets, and each ticket cost around 11 dollars  and it definitely worths the money.

This is the view of the firework on the graduation day, definitely the largest graduation party i have ever seen. We had the chance to watch it on the boat which was the best spot to witness the whole firework show

Need to say thank you to Jane and her husband, they have been two helpful tour guides for us in St.Petersburg, we wouldn’t know anything about the city without their help. Love the 24/7 smile on their face

bar 76 is right at the end of the block, t takes us 30 secs to get there from hotel. It has been the best spot to watch games in St.Petersburg so far, i go there everyday before 5pm with the team, definitely the place I will visit when I come back to St.Petersburg later

had a great dinner in a Chinese restaurant called Nihao (which means hello in Chinese) with the class and Jane and her husband last night in Saint Petersburg, the food was so much better than what we thought, it’s pretty authentic Chinese food. We spent most of time introducing the Chinese food culture to Lisa and Jane. 

Lisa bought these tickets from a poor Mexican GW alumni who couldn’t attend the game with his family. The seats are at section 104 which close enough to see the players’ faces, it’s a whole different experience than sitting at the nosebleed. Definitely the best soccer experience ever. Thanks to Lisa.