Russian Class

Tonight was my first Russian class. I signed up for the class being offered at our high school a few weeks ago and I was so excited to start. I walked into the class, hoping I wasn't the only one that signed up. I wasn't, there were nine others. I sat down at a desk and anxiously waited for the class to begin. 15 minutes later I was still waiting (along with everyone else) in awkward silence. I was hoping that someone would be friendly enough to initiate a meet and greet while we were waiting but no one did. I guess I could have but I didn't. 30 minute later the teacher arrived. She took role and we immediately started learning the cyrillic alphabet. She did not introduce herself and I did not get around to asking. Some of the people in the class had taken it before and were familiar with the alphabet. I am familiar with it as I've been learning Russian on my own for months now. About half the class had never seen or learned the alphabet before. We then practiced reading words in Russian and guessed what their meanings might be. I enjoyed that because although I'm familiar with alot of the words, I need help with pronouncing them. She said we'd spend a few weeks studying the alphabet before we jumped into conversational Russian. I was a little bummed about that since the class is only 8 weeks long and I really want to learn the conversational part. I hope she offers an intermediate class so I can continue learning. I love languages, its really fun for me to learn them. Russian has been alot easier than I thought it would be. Easier than Spanish so far. Anyway, I'll keep you up to date with my classes and all that I learn.