So~ another relaxing weekend, actually, everyday over here are pretty relaxing and fun. Only a few things happened on the weekend, like shopping, a visit to Aton's factory basement. Last week was the most exciting one. Anyway...
Saturday:
Woke up in the morning, read National Geographic magazine about a group of peple traveling in Ethopia, Sudan and story about finind the 1st American. Then was waiting for Dima to call me to go for some shopping. He was cleaning the house and he lives about 8min away from the school where I'm staying now, which also used to be his school.
So the market place is about 20min away and it's one of the end of Lviv city. The market is like made up from hundreds little shops selling shoes, jackets, caps, shirts, well, cloths and some shops sell lights, tv, food etc. The whole market is probably a size of a half football field, but all the shops are very closed together.
We were lucky, becuase it was raining and with a bit of wet snow*, so there werent many people in the market. Else according to Dima, it's normally very very crowded in the market on a weekend.
There were only 3 things I need t get, a fat jeans*, fat socks and winter boots. Yeah, guy's shpping are easy gals =p We went to several shops and looked and tried on some shoes but I didnt really like them or the prices were out of budget.
Dima:'We have many many shps here, if you dont like anything here, we can go to the next shop.' And because of this sentance, we finished our shopping in about 2 hours.
Dima:'If you see anything nice, dont be shy and you can try them on.' But I didnt try much because I hate trying so many things and taking off my jeans and jacket and shirt to try on different things.
The people in the shops are nice people. Well, of course they try to push for sales but they are very polite and nice when you said you dont want anything. And some of them gave me discounts automatically, nice people arent they.
So I spend about 550Uah which is about 70Euro? Maybe for a pair of fat socks, winter boots and fat jeans.
*Wet snow - From Dima dictionary, there are several types of snow, wet snos is the worst snow because they turn into water when they landed. the best Snow is the fluffy snow where you can play snowballs with.
*Fat jeans - From Dima dictionary, these jeans are about double layer, so it's warmer for winter. Actually it was my 1st time knowing there are fat jeans.
*Fat socks - From Dima dictionary, it's the warm socks, hand made from sheep skin.
Then at night, omg, i went to Aton's factory. The trip on marshutka (bus) was a bit crazy. Because Dima sent me to the bus and he told the bus driver where I wanted to be dropped off and because it was too crowded in the bus, Dima explained only in 5 sec and he left me and I'm on a bus t dont know where. Then he called me and I passed my phone t the driver assistant, the person who collect the bus fare. It was strange... And I hope Aton gave the right instrustion to Dima on the phone where sometimes I cant hear properly what they are saying on the phone.
So when the marshurtka stopped at the stop where I should stop, I got off and called Aton and he asked me :'what do you see from the bus stop? Can you see a church? No? What else can you see?'
At that time I couldnt see a church and I dont knwo how to explain what I see, I see shops, bus stop, trees, people and some signs in Ukrainian which I cant read... I thought I was lost for a sec that night. Fortunately I was at the right place and Aton met up with me after about 10min.
So I met some new friends who are working in the factory and I went to Aton neightbour's house. They were very nice to me even thought it was the 1st time they had me in their house ^_^
Sunday:
OMG, I already said so much about Saturday... -_-" Ok, Sunday morning didnt exist because I spelt late talking to Mason. Again, we love free calling from Life :) operator. I can call Ukrainian chicks for free for hours, muaaaaahahahahahahaha!!!
Ok, so I met up with Aton again because other friends are too busy studying for their up coming test before New Year and X'mas breaks. I waited for him for about an hour because of some misunderstanding and some traffic jam from his way to town. But it was ok, I was observing the people in Lviv and watching kids playing with cars.
When I saw Aton, he was with his friend and he didnt look very friendly with his angry face and he cant speak English and they walk so fast I was trying to catch up with my tired legs. But after about a couple of hours, maybe after sme beer the guy became more friendly and he gave me a toss of Ukrainian vodka before I left.
At this bar where were drinkning beer and played some pool, again they smoke in the bar and made me stink. More and more friends joined in the table and they talked and I could only talk to Aton because the others cant really speak English. Something puzzled me before the toss where we left, they were saying something like 'Zell your friend is a very nice guy, let him have this vodka and it's for love.' How would they say I'm a nice guy since we didnt talk much and I was only with them for a couple of hours... I think maybe they were drunk or peple here are to friendly, lol!
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