People in Russia DO NOT SPEAK English.
... or at least their majority to be more precise. OK, we knew that pretty much from the beginning, but it's a whole other issue seeing it happen.
When for example, you are at the airport's passport control trying to enter the country (in an airport which still "smells" Perestroika) and several people with big green hats (the police), look at you in a weird way trying to guess what does a Greek who is coming from Sweden with a bunch of other Swedes is doing in Nizjnij Novgorod, then you start understanding that it is YOU that needs to adapt and not the others!
Or when you go to the supermarket trying to buy some water and the guy at the cashier stops you and looks at you like if buying a bottle of water is the strangest thing, talks to you with any willingness to use body language so that you understand each other, then only one solution exists. Bring Fredric along with his "magic" pocket-dictionary and let him do the talking ... :-) At least this is what I am gonna do during the following days.
Until then ... пока.
http://petersburgcity.com/for-tourists/phrases-english-russian/expressions/
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Seems like a smooth start!
Glad to hear that you're still alive, but then again, you've only made 1/30 of the journey. :-p
Счастливый услышать, что Вы все еще живы, товарищ!
The Russian Campaign, it sound familiars.... Aah I think a common friend of ours had a blog named The Swedish Campaign :P, only difference that Swedes can speak and maybe write better English!!! Anyhow have fun G. and tell the Russian girls that we love them!!!
It is indeed true that the idea was stolen from Alkiviadis. But good ideas are to be stolen...
You should trust me on that though Alkiviadi ... Russia can indeed be seen as a campaign. Swede was just like going to the funfair!
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