Today we went to the post-office in the morning to send Helen Bear and Budd to their next hosts. We all felt a bit sad because we didn't have enough time to play together We will miss our friends very much! We wish them a quick and safe journeys!
When we said good-bye to Helen Bear and Budd, we were walking for some time in the centre of the city where Oksana showed us some interesting places of Novosibirsk, some monuments and buildings.
Here I'm near the Novosibirskaya conservatoire, the monument of the famouse Russian composer Michail Glinke.
The fragment of the monument which shows the scene from his opera "Ruslan and Ludmila" based on the fairy tale written by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin:
Such billboards are met everywhere in Novosibirsk- they tell about the parties, concerts, plays which take part in this city.
The monuments of Vladimir Lenin were very popular in the former USSR. We also met some in Novosibirsk. This one stands on the very quite street in front of one of the Novosibirsk universities.
Dandelions are the most popular flowers in Novosibirsk now! ) They look like small suns in the green grass.
Here I'm near the cafe which is called Aquarium. A nice fish, isn't it?
Not far from that cafe we found this lovely statue of a girl with a fan:
Here I'm on the fur-tree:
The stone heart. It's situated in the Pervomaysky (means May,1) garden. It's one of the symbols for people in love in Novosibirsk. Couples who are just married often comes to that stone heart to make photos. At first it was just a stone sculpture without any writings on it, but then young people wrote their words of love on it.
Here is one more stone sculpture. I guess it's a mother and a child.
And this monument is a gift of the Armenian community to Novosibirs for the 2000th anniversary of Christianity.
Novosibirsk has a Metro. I like it very much. But it's not so long like in Moscow and deep like in St. Petesburg. It has only about 12 stations. The station where our host lives is called Gagarinskaya- it was named after the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
It's early morning, so there are not many people on the station.
Here we are near the local museum. I like that building very much, it looks very old.
And these are the monument of Vladimir Lenin and the House of Opera and Ballet.
In fact June, 1 is the international children's day and it's celebrated in Russia every year. You can see lots of children with their parents in the parks and gardens. Concerts and different games are organized for them.
Oksana and some other guys from the studio of ethnical drums also prepared some action to support children who lost their parents. So they played drums in the park and gathered money to send them in one of the Novosibirsk charity organisations.
And later in the evening Oksana took us to the drum circle to the studio where she plays African drum djembe. It was very interesting there!