23.07.09
The plane to Moscow was fine, apart from a man who sat in the seats in front. He was going to Moscow and then f
lying onto Novosibirsk, this was his sixth trip and he came for medical research work. His Russian was ok but not great according to Igor, enough to get by but not to express himself or get in with the culture and people. Even though he had been to Russia 5 times previously, he had never stopped in Moscow longer than a few hours at the airport before his next flight. His words to me were, be carefull it's dangerous, I'm lucky to have a native speaker, if any woman tries it on with me in the first day then she is on the game, the people are not hospitable to foreigners, be carefull of the racism and watch for the police. So all in all, he didn't really have much to say that was good about the place and was on a constant spell of negativity.
The plane to Moscow was fine, apart from a man who sat in the seats in front. He was going to Moscow and then f
lying onto Novosibirsk, this was his sixth trip and he came for medical research work. His Russian was ok but not great according to Igor, enough to get by but not to express himself or get in with the culture and people. Even though he had been to Russia 5 times previously, he had never stopped in Moscow longer than a few hours at the airport before his next flight. His words to me were, be carefull it's dangerous, I'm lucky to have a native speaker, if any woman tries it on with me in the first day then she is on the game, the people are not hospitable to foreigners, be carefull of the racism and watch for the police. So all in all, he didn't really have much to say that was good about the place and was on a constant spell of negativity.
When we got off the plane we were greeted by Slava, who served with Igor's dad in the army. He immediately contradicted the plane man's attitude and was so hospitable. We were also greeted by Illya who drove us back to Slava's flat via some Moscow sights. Illya could speak some English so I was attempting to give him some chat and Igor was translating between me and Slava.
After we set down our bags they took us on a tour of Moscow by night and drove us around lots of different sights, we also went to the train station and bought our tickets to Novosibirsk, the train leaving the next night at 12.30am.
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