Today I met the military soldiers of my wagon, of course they invited me for a beer: this time I accepted... it was not the best idea that I had. They were returning after the end of their 2 years contracts most of them were 21. They were partying for the end of their contract and spending for sure a good part of their money in alcohol as the train is 3 days long from Moscow to Irkutsk and that they are drinking from Moscow.
We were doing toast to international friendship: funny for soldiers who were on very hot spot like Chechnya... I did not ask any political question about their fight. Anyway I was the little frenskya in the middle of the group of the Russkya soldiers.
At the end of all the drinking rounds (when the vodka and the beer were finished and before they went to look for some other), lot of them just fell asleep or in very bad condition. On my side I was not so fresh neither and it was better to go to sleep, few more glasses should have been tricky for me. I return to sleep even if this new "friendship" for them was to go till the point were it was not possible to do anything: so they try to wake up me to return to drinking cession. I just fake to sleep very deeply and they left me: it did not have their training and it should have been dangerous for me to go further... Latter, i woke up and I went in the other wagon where I've heard some music in french, i met 2 Russians girls who were going in a french festival organized by " l'Alliance Francaise"in Irkutsk: one was singing a song of Lara Fabian and the other one a song of Garou. I took the opportunity to met the french organisators of the festival and find with them a very nice room in a Russian family.
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