Best Eastern Krasnoyarsk

I'm Cold. The Train is rattling us towards Mongolia, through beautiful pale green landscapes, hills in the distance, sometimes jutting through the steppes next to us like fangs, or holey molars. The night was cold, and this time, I actually wore a T-shirt as well, not just underwear, and had a blanket on, and a sheet, and curled up as I was on my hard bed in the second class cabin we are travelling in, I was still shivering. We are also in coupe class, only 4 people in a cabin ...

yes, that's how long it took from Irkutsk to Yekaterinburg. 55 hours. But the journey went relatively quickly, considering. We did have entertainment on board. Our Provonitsa was a typical rather large Russian lady, who turned out ...

... plus, la numerotation avait change. Une caissiere nous indique un trolleybus a prendre pour y aller (20km au sud de la ville, on doutait quand meme que le trolleybus y parvienne...) du coup on demande a un taxi des infos. il nous indique le meme trolleybus... on prend donc ce bus qui part dans la direction opposee bien entendu, et nous promene a travers la banlieue (magnifique...) de la ville. En restant dans le bus, on se retrouve de nouveau a la gare et au point de depart ...

... da sva ob prihodu v mestu preckala reko na novem mostu, ki stoji le nekaj metrov stran od mosta iz leta 1890. Ta stari most je v letu, ko je bil zgrajen prejel prestizno nagrado za najvecji dosezek clovestva na svetovni razstavi v Parizu. Danes Rusi radi zapisejo, da je ta dosezek bil eden prvi v vrsti njihovih velikih stvari kot so bile: prvi satelit v vesolju, prvi clovek v vesolju, prva postaja v vesolju ter na koncu verjetno najbolj ...

... hotel, then I arrived to find it was closed! There was a reception area for the building though and a couple of guys there were really helpful. One spoke a little English and I managed to communicate my problem. They let me in to put my bag down for a bit and then called around the local hotels to see if Damian had checked in. Unfortunately we couldn't find him (and neither of us had mobiles) so they told me where a nearby hotel was and I went there to sort myself out. On the way I stopped ...

... lingering on me! Pluses and minuses: + Colleagues. The 3 Americans and 1 Brit who were apart of my team made everything better. We are such a close group; they really made me feel welcomed with everything. They're far more different than any other group of colleagues I've ever had; when you're isolated in a land far far away where you don't know the language, you gotta stick together! My colleagues were always there for me, from the first moment I had trouble in a ...

... s say that this pipeline must be fixed twice a year, and that the government decides to do this in May and July. You would think that in this normally cold climate-that-is-now-warming-up would be the ideal time to fix the pipes, yes? So...in this hypothetical situation, let's say they turn off the water in May for 10 days to fix the pipes. Coincidentally, the weather changes, and it becomes cold...Mind you, all the Russians I've met are super sharp about the ...

... with her nor hang around her that much to get saturated with the vileness that is British English. At first the small differences made me laugh, but now they're creeping into my own vocabulary, especially recently since I've been teaching an Ielts class (ielts is the British version of Tofel [teaching of English as a foreign language). Watch out, Americans, don't get these words confused! 1) Pants. No, not the substitute for a skirt, pants in British English are the equivalent to ...

... is a small portion of your foot or leg showing, you must wear tights!). Okay, it's not a "must," but it's certainly the chic thing to do. I've seen a lot of women wearing patterned tights (very pretty). Sometimes the "short skirt" fashion grosses me out, especially when I see girls wearing tights, and their skirts reveal the top part of their tights (the thicker part that is at the very top of your thigh and sucks in your tummy)...you're NOT supposed to show ...

... War. Strangely enough, and this is because of American propaganda, I was taught in school that the US had won the war. The more I think about it, the more I don't believe my history teachers. The Second World War was so significant to Russia, they lost the most amount of soldiers (take the number of soldiers Britain and the US lost combined, multiply it by 10, and then add some more). It's kinda the reason why today, in 2008, there are 2.5 females for 1 male (all those ...