Connected at Last

Last night, after my second class observation of the day ended, I walked over to the mall a few doors down from my school's central offices. There I went into a store called Eon and bought a card for internet service, paying all of 545 rubles (500 rubles worth of internet value and 45 rubes of profit for the store).

I took the card home, used my computer's WiFi system to find the service provider's network, and entered my information. It took 20 minutes to get fully registered and for the system to recognize me, but I was eventually able to pull up my e-mail, Amazon, and a few other sites. For the first time on the road, I could access the internet on my own computer.

The quality of the service leaves something to be desired. Pages take forever to load, and the service disconnected once last night as I was trying to blog. But at least it gives me a source of internet independent of my school's operating hours that does not cost a small forture, as internet cafes in Moscow seem to.