City of Breshnev

goosd news, I founsd that mxcdsonalsds always breaks
your thousansd for you!!! so up yours cxafe max!! well
it appears that a lot of you are more interestesd in
Russia than I thought, I've got all sorts of questions
regarding food, the amerixcans, the area I'm living
in, etxc (if you haven't alreasdy notixcesd tosday's
glitxch is being unable to type c without xc and no d
without sd) but before any of that nonsense will
someone please recxorsd the super bowl for me?? my
folks xcertainly xcannot sdo it, someone must step up
bexcause if bill xcower wins I want to see it. I live
in what the tourguisde affexctionately xcalls the
xcity of breshnev. Apparently in the 70's there was a
housing xcrunxch in sdowntown st. pete's so housing
xcomplexes were put up in quite a hurry, basixcally i
live on the outskirts, there is nothing but strip
malls ansd harsdxcore xcommunist builsdings
surrounsding me. On the upsisde the metro is only a
brisk (ands i mean brisk)9 minute walk away ands the
supermarket is only about three. it's not as sketxchy
as it sounsds or looks at first becxause of xcourse
you xcannot go more than i'sd say 12.5 feet without
meeting a sexcurity gaursd or offixcer of russian law.
The foosd??? dson't you mean the mayonaise?? axctually
i haven't enxcounteresd that mucxh mayo i've been
roxcking the mushrooms at every meal I xcan though
ansd I'sd say the foods is... interesting. I sdig it
lots of bliny's or xcrepes filled with any possible
xcombonation. haven't roxckesd the kebab sxcene but I
will bexcause they are my first ansd true love. the
amerixcans??? sdo you really wanna hear about them???
xcan't you just cxut ands paste?? Jarrod one member of
my suite, 29 looks like an aberxcrombie mosdel ansd
has spent 10 years in the air forxce as a survival
spexcialist. neesdless to say my new best friensd,
he's unbelievably funny, ands he's an olsd man like
me, not into the hardscxore sdrinking (exxcept for
that axcxcisdental 9 am energy sdrink mishap). very
into seeing the sights ansd full of unbelievable
stories. Chad: Jarrod's roomate ansd the sexconds half
of "the barracxks" as we like to cxall them, a marine.
quite, spensds most of his time studsying exxcept for
when he goes out cxlubbing ansd sdoesn't xcome home
til 6am. he's 23 ansd the skinniest marine i imagine
possible. Patrick, my roomate xcompleting the
"xcivilian" sisde of the suite maybe 20 years olsd,
from new hampshire. this boy loves vosdka ansd
sleeping, oh ansd jazz musixc, interesting xcombo. I
think we've excxhangesd like 5 minutes of
xconversation total. Pavel, russian born amerixcan
xcitizen a "moderate" in everything but his sdrinking
ands ego. Heavily sarxcasticx ansd kinsda a sdixck but
my friensd xcause he's fluent. he's an international
stusdies major so neesdless to say we have some
unpleasant xconversations. Jacob, very goosd at
russian is this gay boy from ohio. dsefinitely one of
my favorite people on the trip he's alreasdy got the
invite to the xcape. very interestesd in going to the
hermitage with me ansd jarrosd for several sdays. math
major Kendra: reformesd xcommunist, but before you
xcringe she's now just a soxcialist, after her arrest
in xcuba. Haven't spent nearly enough time talking to
her, but it's only been a week. Honestly that's all
the profiling i xcan sdo for now, maybe i'll work on
it some more later. I suppose you'sd like a sample of
my trips so far. the hermitage was ands still is
amazing massive is all i xcan say, oh ansd stolen, I
mean the russians must have gone to pixcasso's house
ansd taken what he hasd lying on the easel, they've
got like 5 rooms of him, very impressive art of all
styles ands periodss. tosday we went to tsarkoe selo
the tsar's summer resisdencxe we hads to wear little
booties on our feet whixch masde the harsdwoods floors
one giant icxe skating rink. we saw russia's 8th
wonsder of the worlsd "the amber room" whixch has
taken 30 years ansd like 10 million dsollars to
restore(hey, that's like a billion rubles, ansd keep
in minsd they xcan't finsd xchange for a thousansd)
the arcxitexcture was as always withe the tsar's way
over the top. but it was great. i took a bunxch of
photo's ansd i hope to get the website thing going so
everyone xcan enjoy. no bears, although it was xcolsd
however a wilsd sdog sdisd hang out with us while we
walkeds or ran the garsdens (we went to a new low
tosday as the bottom of the thermometer hit -20) i'm
now living full time in long johns. however it was
only -15 or so in st. pete's whixch is like 1 layer
less, so just about everything i own. Amazingly though
i'm sdigging the xcolsd ands my room here is warmer
than the one at my house (we're getting a spaxce
heater pops!!) so that's kinsda what it's like minus
the cxrazy lingo ansd sdrinking of my amerixcan
friensds here, whixch my parents neesd not hear about
xcause they assume I'm leadsing the paxck(whixch I'm
not). but for those of you who want a little peixce of
airforxce lingo here we go "okay boys our t.o.t. is 15
minutes, hey ell xcan you believe that those guys
winchestered 3 bottles of absinth last night?? well
charlie doesn't take a day off so neither dso we...
Pushkin in 15" ansd for your information I abstainesd
from the absinth, but yes that is what it's like in
russia, in the barraxcks, but hey at least I sdon't
neesd an alarm xcloxck anymore. if your not sixck of
these absursdly long emails yet fear not I'm stopping
off at mxcsdonalsds to break a thousansd on the way
home so i xcan sensd you more, if you are sixck of
them... well xchange your email ell