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Shopping: Buying A Whole Lot of Stuff That You Don't Really Need
Shopping: Buying A Whole Lot of Stuff That You Don't Really Need
https://interculturalist.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/10-things-i-never-did-until-i-lived-in-russia-part-1/
Got paid in cash. As I mentioned above, my paycheck was directly
deposited into my account. Before that job, I received a check and had
to cash it. From what I observed, getting paid in cash isn’t universal in
Russia, it was just the nature of my job as an English teacher and our
company’s policy. Still, it was strange to be receiving handfuls of
money twice a week. Even stranger, carrying that money around in my
purse on my way home.
https://interculturalist.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/10-things-i-never-did-until-i-lived-in-russia-part-1/
Read cheesy books. The selection of books available in English in
Russia is often quite limited, even in big bookstores like Dom Knigi and
Biblio-Globus. This meant that sometimes when I was so desperate to
read something in English, I ended up reading books that I can only
describe as cheesy. Books that I would never read if I was in the
United States and had more variety. But sometimes you just need to
read a book in English!
https://interculturalist.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/10-things-i-never-did-until-i-lived-in-russia-part-1/
Bought milk in a bag. For some reason this was
one of the things I constantly found amusing as it
made no sense to me. How do people use this
product? Some bags had nozzles that could be
re-capped but others didn’t. Do people pour milk
into a separate container or drink the entire bag in
one sitting? So baffling!
https://interculturalist.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/10-things-i-never-did-until-i-lived-in-russia-part-1/