Pampers are Diapers

Aside from the fact that the baby has no name, which is very very disturbing. Over the past few days that I was with my host family, I began to pickup on some strange peculiarities which I couldn’t quite put my finger on.
The first: I heard my host mother and sister talk about “pampers” (which [...]

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To Hedgehog

So it has been awhile since my last entry. Again I apologize. I’ve been busy. So since my last log in. I have left Russia. The baby has still not been named. When I left, my host sister decided to call him “little hedgehog” due to the fact that he “hedgehogged” which apparently is when [...]

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A stroller and some beer

The weather here seems to have made everyone quite chipper. The sun is up, bright and shining from about 6 am till 10 pm. The homeless are a bit more exuberant. In fact the homeless lady who sleeps near my closest metro has seemed to have adopted some dogs, and instead of just sitting in [...]

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