A big red flashing sign that I'm run down? After a very long and fortuitous length of time not being sick, I have been struck down again - twice in one week. The last flu was much worse (dead, dead tired), but it's still annoying to now have a head cold. (Enough! Stop!) Mr. Debbie wonders when I'm going to get "into my groove again" - yeah, well first I have to dig myself out of this giant rut I'm in. I'll get there...first step: to get rid of all sickness.
There is no Labour Day in Russia - business as usual. This morning I was looking at the people in a public bus next to me (from the comfort of my car) - always interesting. Some people were reading newspapers or novels, some were asleep, and some were just glumly staring straight ahead. I notice that the younger, post-Soviet generation tend to smile much more easily. It's nice to see (the older people tend to wear a blank, mask-like expression in public, which is sort of scary to me. They probably had to do that to stay out of trouble during Communist times, since attracting any sort of attention to yourself would not be a good thing back then. Even now, it's probably not advisable.) As the bus pulled away from me, I noticed the bus driver lighting up his cigarette - apparently the bus drivers smoke in the buses while driving...ick!
As part of my little bakery job, I had to go to another expat neighbourhood welcome coffee this morning. In the short time I was there, I heard a terrifying story from an american lady who works for a big oil and gas company here. Late last week, about 20 camouflaged men stormed into their office carrying automatic rifles and raided their offices of all their computers! At gunpoint. Oh Lordy...where do I live??? She said it's been a "character-building" experience. Holy. Crap. For me, I think that would be a job-ending experience.
On a much lighter note, I made my very first apple pie from scratch this past weekend for some lovely americans who've just moved here from London with their 5-month old baby. I don't think I'll be telling them that story quite yet.
Welcome to Moscow!
There is no Labour Day in Russia - business as usual. This morning I was looking at the people in a public bus next to me (from the comfort of my car) - always interesting. Some people were reading newspapers or novels, some were asleep, and some were just glumly staring straight ahead. I notice that the younger, post-Soviet generation tend to smile much more easily. It's nice to see (the older people tend to wear a blank, mask-like expression in public, which is sort of scary to me. They probably had to do that to stay out of trouble during Communist times, since attracting any sort of attention to yourself would not be a good thing back then. Even now, it's probably not advisable.) As the bus pulled away from me, I noticed the bus driver lighting up his cigarette - apparently the bus drivers smoke in the buses while driving...ick!
As part of my little bakery job, I had to go to another expat neighbourhood welcome coffee this morning. In the short time I was there, I heard a terrifying story from an american lady who works for a big oil and gas company here. Late last week, about 20 camouflaged men stormed into their office carrying automatic rifles and raided their offices of all their computers! At gunpoint. Oh Lordy...where do I live??? She said it's been a "character-building" experience. Holy. Crap. For me, I think that would be a job-ending experience.
On a much lighter note, I made my very first apple pie from scratch this past weekend for some lovely americans who've just moved here from London with their 5-month old baby. I don't think I'll be telling them that story quite yet.
Welcome to Moscow!
5 comments:
Bad things happen everywhere in the world, but that really is scary. All that just to steal computers. Computers are not that valuable, unless of course they were stealing them for the information stored on them.
Sorry to hear you've been feeling ill. Get well soon!
Character building?! More like bladder-controlling! That is scary!
Oh my I might be ill too! Scary! x
Wow! Stay safe and I hope you're feeling better soon!
Wow, that is not the kind of character I want to build. Yikes!
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