"You gotta be kidding me" has got to be a theme on this trip, along with mullets. Everything just seems kind of shady to me, but we've kind of made it into a joke. We got off the eight hour train ride in Moscow, where we only stayed for a few hours. In this time frame, one of the girls in our group twisted her ankle walking walking down a curb. I tried to help out by taping it up, but wasn't too sure I was doing it right. Isn't it a couple dimes around the ankle, then down to the foot, then around the heel, connecting the ankle to the foot so that the foot can't move too much in an direction? All she was trying to do was study abroad, now she's twisted her ankle. Bad timing.
Once that was taken care of, we took our bus to the hotel, to pick up another group that was already there, group 2. I got the idea to dare one of the guys in my group to walk up, hug one of the other guys in group 2 to introduce himself. The catch was that he couldn't break off the hug, and had to hug him as long as he could. He did it. You gotta be kidding me.
After a short meal at McDonalds, all 40+ of us got back on a train for Volgograd, where the University is. Back in the same small room, rock hard beds, and same four sweaty guys, for 20 hours. You gotta be kidding me.
Best train ride ever. I'm not even going to try to go into too much detail about it. Let's just say we met two Russian guys and their ladies. One a kickboxer and the other a wrestler. We talked in the restaraunt on the train with them for 4 hours. You know it wouldn't have lasted 4 hours without the help of a special type of liquid that boosts your friendliness. They were extra friendly. Oh, and don't try to out friendly a Russian. Russia rule #1.
We were greated into Volgograd by the "Mother of the Motherland" statue. It is the tallest statue in the world, words can't describe how amazing it was. Neither could my camera, nor its battery for that matter. You gotta be kidding me.
The University is right across the street from our hotel, which is pretty nice by the way. The rooms are very dormy, and theres a gigantic fish in a fish tank not nearly large enough to hold it. 90+ temperatures are normal here, and everyone is in pants.Baboshkas are at full force, but mullets are getting rarer by the day. Aside from the stare downs by the natives, sizing up our physical capabilities, it seems like a nice place. I can already tell I'm going to miss this place a lot when I go home.
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I think you start by taping your right ankle to your left ankle and then taping each toe individually and then around your neck back down around each hip and then back to the feet. I might be wrong but I doubt it.
Is the girl who sprained her ankle the broad you're studying??
get it? get it? study abroad! get it? hahaha too funny
-Justin
"Oh, and don't try to out friendly a Russian. Russia rule #1."
I LOL'ed. Too bad about the loss of mullet population.
-Jew
I looked up that statue and it looks sweet
i'll remember to never try and be nicer than a drunk russian. Good advise, have any more russian rules?
p.s- i actually think you taped her ankle right, but its more about how tight you wrap and where its putting the most pressure.
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