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Adventures

// 2 June 2012 // Uncategorized

Have I already mentioned that every our day is full of adventures? Yesterday we had a day rich of adventures: everyone gotta have first working day. Alyona’s job starts at 8 a.m. if I’m not mistaken, mine and Karina’s starts at 3 p.m.. Anyway me and Karina couldn’t work because our employer needed a receipt of social security office that we’ve given all the necessary documents for it. We didn’t have any receipt because we haven’t applied for SSN(that’s because we applied for sevis just at the day when our job starts and we could apply for SSN only 48 hours later). So, when we came home we called our employer and CIEE and explained the situation one more time and few minutes later our employer called and said that we would be able to work the next day. Alyona also told us about the house she has found for us and we decided to move there. But firstly we decided to buy bicycles to get to the job by. We were searching nearby the Heather’s house but didn’t find any shop, then 2 American men got us to the pawn shop, by the way they’ve bought vodka on our way on (I suppose because of Russian spirit in the car xD ), anyway they have taken us to the shop and there was something else, but not we, with whom they wanted to drink vodka 
There were cool bikes in the shop, but no bike for our money (we decided to spend no more than 100$). In the pawn shop I talked to a guy from Kosovo who was living here for several years. When I gone from the shop I saw 2 Americans who knew some Russian words, but all we know what words . But the funniest thing ever was to hear “Tagiiiiiiil”(Russian kinda joke).
After this funny conversation we began thinking of how to get home, because we had no idea of where were we and taxi was too expensive for us… We had no choice just to call Heather again. She was tired after work but she picked us up and took to the walmart for buying bicycles! In walmart we bought bicycles just for 88$ while in Russia we could buy almost the same for 800$. While we was purchasing for the bicycles the heavy rain started and ended. Me and Karina decided to get home by the bicycles, but after 15 or maybe 20 minutes we got it that we ain’t sportsmen at all and got in the car, and moved to the house where we should stay for an hour. Heather is wonderful, she talked to us all the time while we were packing our bags and she helped us with calling the taxi with minivan for us to take bicycles! We moved to a Russian family. We drank tea, took a shower and even played Playstation 3 there. And only then we went to bed 

P.s. when I use words “today’, “yesterday” etc. I mean the date according to the post date.

Russian translation is available.