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Published: September 2nd 2012
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(I know creative titles) Stranded on an Island.
So I am fully aware that the only two posts that I have so far clearly start off with a negative tone. In reality, though, I have learned a lot through all of these experiences.
For instance, who can say that they have actually been stranded on an island?
I CAN!
Of course, I end up getting stuck in the rain for 4-5 hours at the beginning of the day...It was all because of some random bridge and me being too cheap to pay or even find a taxi to make an extremely long detour (if possible) back to the hotel.
So instead, here's what I learned happens when you get stranded on one of the many Islands of St. Petersburg, Russia:
1. You freeze your butt off
2. You really don't know what to do with your time, so you sit in the rain and take your life for granted.
3. You watch huge ships slowly make their way under the raised bridge that you really wanted to cross.
4. You watch people pass you and look at you like you're stupid for all the above.
5. When you're frozen solid, you decide to defrost by walking back and forth along the river.
6. When you do so, you run into a Russian man who wants to try having a conversation
7. You end up getting proposed to
8. So you make up an imaginary boyfriend, who is on the other side of the bridge
9. Oh and you're fully aware that they could try kidnapping you at any moment, so you just go with the flow and hope for the best.
10. You now make conversation with the three words in Russian that you know. (No, Yes, and thank you)
11. You get sung to by a guitar player
12. You start a conversation about music...
13. You get the guy who initially talked to you ask every stranger passing if they know English
14. You give out your twitter name and deny the fact that you have a Facebook account or phone
15. You get invited to a banya (Russian Sauna)
16. You awkwardly reject the invitation and get them to say horrible things about your imaginary boyfriend
17. You proceed on
your brisk walk to no where
18. You now realize that there's probably still another 2 hours before the bridge will lower and remember that there was a 24 hour coffee shop a block away
19. Once you cross the street and wait for another crosswalk, you witness a car trying to jump the curb and instead 6 people have to get out and stand in the drizzling rain. You tell yourself that you're lucky because you just crossed the street from where that accident happened.
20. As you continue to walk, you see another potential car crash as someone swerved into another car's "lane". But fortunately, the second car stopped just in time. (This of course happened right next to you)
21. You finally make it into the coffee shop and struggle to order tea, so that you have a reason to stay there for the next hour and a half.
22. You then draft this blog post so that you don't miss one bit of experience to share when you have the time to type it out
23. When you finally get your tea, you begin to question your actions...but then come
to the conclusion that this is how you're supposed to experience Russia.
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anonymous
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O DEAR
that sounds rough