Hello everybody back again. It's almost coming up on my year anniversary of living in the land of plenty. The celebration will be with rain-drenched bread crumbs.
The first day of snow officially happend on Oct. 13. Ouch. And boy did it snow. It hasn't snowed since then, but the rain has more than made up for it. The heat has been turned on in our flat thank god. By the way, the governement dictates when the gas is turned on and off to heat all the living areas of the city. Everybody knows the day the heat will be turned on and if its really cold before that than tough. Put on a fir coat you whiners. I've also had to tape up all the cracks in my windows to ensure no frosty wind makes it way into my room. Hopefully it will keep the bears out also. I just learned that my femail roommate is from the great nation of Belarus, or Belarussia to some. It's funny cause I didn't know anybody lived there but my roommate is testament to the fact that indeed human beings live in Belarus. So first it was female Siberian roommates and now its a female Belarussian roommate. And a predominately Ukrainian girlfriend. Hmm. A funny situation happened the other day. My male roommates parents came to dinner at our flat. They spoke no English so Sergei, my roommmate, was the interpreter. His mother was wearing very funky socks and I wanted to point out that I liked her socks. The word for socks is "noskie". But I made a slight mistake and I said I liked her "soskie". Everybody's eyes bugged out of their heads and Sergei started cracking up laughing and then informed me that "soskie" is the word for NIPPLES. I told Sergei's mom, a Russian woman I'd never met before, that I liked her nipples. It was unbeleivable. Everybody laughed it off but now I have one of those classic mistaken-translation stories. I've always wanted one of those. I also happened to visit the local circus here in St. Pete. That's right, the circus. It was great. They had lions and acrobats and clowns and the whole shebang. They had Apes dressed up like the Las Vegas Elvis doing his honky tonk dance and, my personal favorite, Apes dressed up like Hassidic Jews and doing that funny dance with their arms crossed and kicking their legs up in the air. I was going bananas. Apes dressed as Hassidic Jews! Only in Russia! The MC of the circus was also dressed up as a giant grotesque wizard which had to have been frightening to the children. Not to mention the constant dung flowing from every animal.
I leave for Paris tomorrow with the girlfriend, her daughter, her two girlfriends, and their daughter and son. It will be me and six Russians walking around Paris like chickens with our heads cut off (yeah, I used that one again Mike). We're sharing an apartment, which will be hilarious, we're going to a French water park, which will be hilarious (speedos), and my favorite, we're going to...Euro Disneyland, which will be completely hilarious. I will die a happy man if I can hear Donald Duck speaking French.
Other than that not much else is going on. November 4 is a national holiday to celebrate the time in the early 1600's when Russia freed themselves from Polish control, which I think is also hilarious. I wouldn't want to be a Pole in Russia right now, both the people and the actual things. Halloween is coming here also. Halloween is a very recent thing to arrive in Russia and many people still have mixed feelings about it. The new generation love it of course, but the older people look on it with derision and call it "the devils holiday". However trick or treating is not part of it. I guess its hard to trick or treat when its 35 degrees outside and the rain is making your spiderman costume turn into a Jabba the Hut costume.
ok thats all. See you next time. At the year anniversary.
The first day of snow officially happend on Oct. 13. Ouch. And boy did it snow. It hasn't snowed since then, but the rain has more than made up for it. The heat has been turned on in our flat thank god. By the way, the governement dictates when the gas is turned on and off to heat all the living areas of the city. Everybody knows the day the heat will be turned on and if its really cold before that than tough. Put on a fir coat you whiners. I've also had to tape up all the cracks in my windows to ensure no frosty wind makes it way into my room. Hopefully it will keep the bears out also. I just learned that my femail roommate is from the great nation of Belarus, or Belarussia to some. It's funny cause I didn't know anybody lived there but my roommate is testament to the fact that indeed human beings live in Belarus. So first it was female Siberian roommates and now its a female Belarussian roommate. And a predominately Ukrainian girlfriend. Hmm. A funny situation happened the other day. My male roommates parents came to dinner at our flat. They spoke no English so Sergei, my roommmate, was the interpreter. His mother was wearing very funky socks and I wanted to point out that I liked her socks. The word for socks is "noskie". But I made a slight mistake and I said I liked her "soskie". Everybody's eyes bugged out of their heads and Sergei started cracking up laughing and then informed me that "soskie" is the word for NIPPLES. I told Sergei's mom, a Russian woman I'd never met before, that I liked her nipples. It was unbeleivable. Everybody laughed it off but now I have one of those classic mistaken-translation stories. I've always wanted one of those. I also happened to visit the local circus here in St. Pete. That's right, the circus. It was great. They had lions and acrobats and clowns and the whole shebang. They had Apes dressed up like the Las Vegas Elvis doing his honky tonk dance and, my personal favorite, Apes dressed up like Hassidic Jews and doing that funny dance with their arms crossed and kicking their legs up in the air. I was going bananas. Apes dressed as Hassidic Jews! Only in Russia! The MC of the circus was also dressed up as a giant grotesque wizard which had to have been frightening to the children. Not to mention the constant dung flowing from every animal.
I leave for Paris tomorrow with the girlfriend, her daughter, her two girlfriends, and their daughter and son. It will be me and six Russians walking around Paris like chickens with our heads cut off (yeah, I used that one again Mike). We're sharing an apartment, which will be hilarious, we're going to a French water park, which will be hilarious (speedos), and my favorite, we're going to...Euro Disneyland, which will be completely hilarious. I will die a happy man if I can hear Donald Duck speaking French.
Other than that not much else is going on. November 4 is a national holiday to celebrate the time in the early 1600's when Russia freed themselves from Polish control, which I think is also hilarious. I wouldn't want to be a Pole in Russia right now, both the people and the actual things. Halloween is coming here also. Halloween is a very recent thing to arrive in Russia and many people still have mixed feelings about it. The new generation love it of course, but the older people look on it with derision and call it "the devils holiday". However trick or treating is not part of it. I guess its hard to trick or treat when its 35 degrees outside and the rain is making your spiderman costume turn into a Jabba the Hut costume.
ok thats all. See you next time. At the year anniversary.
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