Things I've discovered while waiting.
- American pop music is near universal. Imagine your local top 40 clear channel station at home and the songs it had played to death 6 months ago. That's what's on the radio.
- Google.ru will suggest you change to the version for Google Netherlands before suggesting English.
- Despite being a block away from a mosque where all the women are wearing head scarves and full sleeves - all the girls here in the internet cafe are wearing standard Russian attire (read: showing off their legs, short sleeves, and wearing large diva-esque sunglasses on their heads)
- Duran Duran's Come Undone is perfectly acceptable on the same station as Alejandro and Te Amo.
- Control Shift is the short key to change from typing in Russian to typing in English
- Signs telling you the rules don't work if you're an American and the sign is in Russian... The size 72 font is far less intimidating when I can't read it...
- The Nescafe juice is far less enjoyable than the local apple juice that was in the same case. I can't read the details on the bottle - but pictures of apples on the side helped.
- I hate waiting. 53% loaded now but I'm still waiting on the other 47%. This is why photos > video. It takes less time to take it, less time to edit, less time to upload it, less time to look at it, and at the end you can print and frame it.
- Small children who are younger than 2 are much more interesting than those who are older. If they can't talk, they make funny faces that are much more universal than what could be Russian/Kyrgyz/ or gibberish without me knowing the difference. Also it seems there are many more children here and people are more likely to take their kids out with them than if they were in the States.
*Slight variation if we want to be accurate, but oh well. If you googled this and Gogol Street you'd be within a block of me. I just don't know the other cross road and I don't want to slow the download in the other window by googling it.
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