Day before another round of travel

We Americans have forgotten how many conveniences we're surrounded by every moment.  What took me an hour to do this morning (getting to another part of town on two metro lines) could have been done by car in a fraction of that time.  So basically I left home at 8:45, got to Station Obolon around 9:50, started walking the kilometer to Kostya's place.  Kostya and Mikhail met me half way.  They had set out to meet me.  I had a coffee and then Mikhail cut my hair.  He said he wasn't going to change my style.  Then he did.  He cut it pretty short and it seems like it might be low maintenance.  Of course every time I get a haircut, I feel like all the color gets cut out and all the gray remains.  I looked in the mirror.  I still don't look like a Ukrainian, but my haircut does!  What I have learned, should I be lucky enough to get a seat on the metro is that it's a great place to catch a quick nap, keeping my ear tuned to the stops.  Stops are announced and then next stop is announced.  That's very helpful.  One thing I notice is that Ukrainian couples, heterosexual, are very free about expressing affection in public, sometimes quite passionately.  It's not something we generally see at home.  I got back to the apartment around 13:00 and ate for the first time today:  cheese and bread, coffee and juice.  I have only a few minutes before I have to go back to the center to have a language lesson.  I will try to persuade Anna to go with me to the bus station to get a ticket for tomorrow's morning bus to Odessa - a five or six hour trip.  Odessa is a great city on the Black Sea.  More later.