(Michelle) The next morning, Yan laid out a nice breakfast for us, which included the “American Fresh” peanut butter – I didn’t realize an “American Fresh” brand peanut butter even existed, but I am more surprised to see that it is one that is exported to Arabic Speaking countries – note the writing on the jar. Yan and Lydia are about the same age as us. Yan is a graphic designer and Lydia is a producer for the Russian version of “Who wants to be a millionaire”. On their version though, they only win one million Rubles instead of dollars (which is a lot less than a million dollars!). It was really interesting to talk to her about her job. I’ve never met a TV producer before.
As we were packing up to go (and of course while TJ was petting the kitty – photo is of Lydia with the kitty), there was a movie on tv. Lydia told us that it is a very famous movie, where this guy goes out with his friends and he thinks he is in Moscow but he is really in St. Petersburg and there is a house with the same address as his own in Moscow and his key works there too and he is really drunk and then he meets some girl and they fall in love. I’m really screwing up the story here, but it is a very famous movie and they watch every year at Christmas, kind of like I watch a Christmas Story or Christmas Vacation every year at Christmas.We left at around 1. We were leaving Moscow on the overnight train at 11pm, so we have time to get in one more museum.
(TJ) Russia has some very good food, you just need to be with some Russians to know what to get.
Another movie that was on tv was a Russian classic about a girl who disguises herself as a man so that she can fight with the Russian Army during the time when Napolean had invaded Russia. The girl is a obviously a bit saucy and does not want to marry. She spurns suitors so that she can go fight. She then ends up falling in love with one of the suitors who she spurned while serving with him in the army. The movie was all in Russian and looked a bit like “Gone with the Wind” in its cinematography, it looked good. I wish that knew some Russian or that it had had some subtitles.
2 comments:
Michelle - Did you do your Diana from "V" impression for Lydia?
If you had to watch 2 Russian movies with no subtitles, it would have only been fair to throw some obsure 80's TV at your hosts.
It was really hard not to say to Lydia: "What pleases the leader is victory, NOT indecision". While Russian Lydia's hair was almost blond, fortunately, it was not feathered like V's Lydia.
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