Come on,” says Laura. “It’s time to go.” On the plane Apriland Laura talk about Moscow. They are both very happy. “I want to see everything,”says Laura. “The Kremlin – Red Square – the Bolshoi…” “Me, too, says April, “and I want to meet lots of people.” “Don’t forget we’re going there to work,” says Maria witha smile.In Moscow a bus takes the dancers to their hotel. April and Laura’s hotel room is on the second floor. Laura walks in and puts her down.“Great! –there’s a TV,” she says and turns it on. A man is reading the news. She pushes another button. Now there is a pop video. “Look, April,” she says. “Russian rock an droll.” But April is not listening. She is looking out of the window. “Moscow,” she thinks.“I’m in Moscow.”Next day the dancers work very hard.Their dance for the festival, Green Oceans,is new and very difficult. They start at eight o’clock and finish at six. Then, after dinner, they go to the Bolshoi Thea tre. “This is beautiful,” says April. Laura sits down next to her.“It really is,” she says.Then they watch the Russian dancers. They are all tall, strong, and very, very good. Theday after, April and Laura finish at three o’clock. They go to a café and drink Russiantea. Then Laura looks at her map of Moscow. “Where do you want to go? The Pushkin Museum’s near here,” she says. “OK –let’s go there,” says April.Then she looks at the people in the café. “I want to talk to them,” she thinks. “But how?I can’t speak Russian.” In a street near the museum there is a small market. “Oh Laura,look,” says April. She can see some red and yellow boxes on a table. “Those are pretty.”“They’re music boxes,” says a young man with glasses. “You speak English!” says April.The boy smiles. “I’mstudying itatuniversity. Myfriend Nikolai andIonlyworkhereat weekends.”AprilandLauratalktotheboysforalongtime.Sasha–theonewithglasses–speaks English very well. Nikolai only speaks a little.
April in Moscow
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