Monday, January 25, 1999
Russia, St. Petersburg
Was walking one day, the first week here, and saw a submarine. Just sitting on dry land. I’d seen the marker for it earlier on a map, so I knew what it was. But just all of a sudden, there it was. It’s a museum. So near our obshyezhitiye. Podvodnaya lodka.
Sunday, January 24, 1999
Russia, St. Petersburg
Went to the banya today. It was on Nevsky Prospect. Went with Eric, my roommate, and Dyenic, who is a friend of Faruk, who is a friend of Muktar, who are both Nigerians studying in St. Petersburg. I met Muktar on the bus the first week we were here. Dyenic is from Nizhnetavorsk, a town of about 300,000 in western Siberia. I think the banya would be better next to a fjord or frozen lake. Eric and I went looking for Dyenic yesterday. Got off the elevator on the 11th floor of his building, he lives on the 13th (Faruk lives on the 11th; we’d gone to the wrong floor), and saw a gun. A man (20-something) was pointing a pistol at another 20-something man. Eric and I got off the elevator, the man put the small-calibre automatic in his jacket pocket and the two of them got on the elevator, the elevator doors closed.
Sunday, January 17, 1999
Saturday, January 9, 1999
Russia, St. Petersburg
Second day in St. Petersburg. Walked on the Gulf of Finland this evening. Surreal. Had a bus tour of the city today. The rest of the town is exactly like Novosibirsk.
Friday, January 8, 1999
Wednesday, January 6, 1999
Saturday, January 2, 1999
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