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benlehman ([personal profile] benlehman) wrote2005-10-09 04:26 pm
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Moscow

I've arrived in Moscow. After a miserable arrival, I ate some really good food, toured red square, and am having a good time. I bought a digital camera in Helsinki, so I'll upload some pictures (and post my train journals) when I get a chance to connect my laptop to the internet, but that might very well be a long, long while.

I'm in Moscow for a couple of days. My train to Irkutsk leaves 11:30 tuesday night. 80 hour train ride. Wish me luck, unless you don't like me, in which case, please don't wish me harm!
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[identity profile] rich-forest.livejournal.com 2005-10-09 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
This one's for luck.

[identity profile] heyunyi.livejournal.com 2005-10-09 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm awfully jealous. But I will still wish you luck!

[identity profile] marcus-sez-vote.livejournal.com 2005-10-09 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Stay safe. Russia can be rough, or so I've been told by various other people who've traveled there.

Be well.
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[personal profile] evilmagnus 2005-10-09 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Ask to buy Lenin. I hear they want to get rid of him.

If you succeed, you can offend everyone by dressing him in a Yankees outfit and taking him to Fenway Park.

[identity profile] aumshantih.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Have fun in Siberia!

[identity profile] blankedyblank.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Good luck.

I thought of a good pectapah word: vkoosna. It means tasty. It is the word they use to praise food.

oh-chen means very. plo-ha means bad (use flegm when you say the last sylable. sometimes it's transliterated plocha. It is a sound we don't have in english.

Actually there is a website, a very good one, that has little recordings of pronounciations of Russian words and sounds. If only I could remember...

nee znayoo means I don't know. ya nee panymayoo (rooskava yazika) means I don't understand (the russian language).

Have fun! Wish I was there!
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