This is a peculiar feeling to arrive to a foreign country and find your article published in a local newspaper.
Странное чувство: приехать в другую страну и увидеть твою статью, опубликованную в местной газете.
This is a peculiar feeling to arrive to a foreign country and find your article published in a local newspaper.

Me and Marius are discussing the modern literature.
Marius: I don't like sci-fi at all, because everything there, from settings to people, doesn't exists in real life. I like books where the real people act in the actual situations, like in "Harry Potter".
I had to defend my consumer rights in the Mego supermarket where I have bought an expired pack of milk. As I can't afford to throw 0,69 euro, I demanded the shop assistante to replace the pack with the fresh one. She initially refused and advised me to boil milk - as if it could restore it's freshness. After I explained that I was a foreigner but still not an idiot, she summonned the manager and after a brief meeting they agreed to present me with another pack of milk, best before the next week. My sale point was that I was bunig milk for a child - that has persuaded them. I would expect something like that somewhere in Ukrainian provicncial town not in the capital of a EU country....
I haven't seen my University mate for 30 years and was lucky to see him in flesh in his Riga huge apartment. He accompanied me to the Meduza online newspaper's editorial office nearby where I saw, first time in flesh, a wellknown Russian emegree media businesswoman Galina Timchenko. By the way, her office occpies a falt once owed by the world chess champion Michael Tal. Riga has been becoming a Mecca for the Russians who feel themselves uncomfortable in Putin's Russia. Then we dropped in the Baltci Times office, where I publish my stories the recent year.
Me and Marius were trying to find an option to travel to Tallinn after we've seen a 5-euro offer. Of course, it was a cheat, and 4-time cheat. The child starts to understand that cheating in life is not something extraordinary. I wouldn't say that adds optimism but definitely decreases naivity.
