We spent a whole evening yesterday talking to Lenchik. He’s done with a boot camp, and is a full fledged Marine now. We had a million of questions for him, and he had 2 million stories to tell. Needless to say we only got through a small portion of them.
In general he seems to like the whole military thing a lot. I think he’s got all the qualities to go very far there. All the commanding officers knew him well in the camp, and his fellow recruits voted him the best recruit.
One of the cool stories he told me was the one about his last day. After graduation he was standing around, waiting for someone. He sees 2 officers going by, so he greeted them. One run up to him and started talking to him. Only in a short while Lenchik realized that the guy had “only” a rank of General. Read more…
Yesterday we picked up Igat’s wife Vika from the airport. This is not only her first trip to NYC, but it also is her first trip outside of ex-USSR space. I knew Vika since I was about 10 years old, but then we haven’t seen each other since we left Uzbekistan back in 1995. However we’ve been hanging out with Ignat since his arrival to New York and he turned out to be a very cool guy and a good friend.
Today we were showing Vika the best parts of our city. First we checked out our local Brooklyn shore and then we took a train to Manhattan. We started it off with a walk down the 34th Street and ended up on the very top of Empire State Building. This time the line was not more then 30 minutes (as opposed to at least 3 hours).
After that we walked up to 42nd Street and had a nice dinner and beer tasting at a local brewery. By the time we were done with dinner it was dark outside - the best time to visit Times Square, which we did. Then we spent some time in the biggest Toys “Я” Us, after which everyone was pretty tired, so we decided to go home.
All in all it turned out a fun day with good friends.
says:September 5, 2007 @ 16:07
That was a really wonderful day for me! I’ve come to like NY after all. So thank you very much!
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September 5, 2007 @ 17:46
O! Thank you for leaving a comment for us! We asked Ignat 300 times, but he still never left us a single one! 
I’m glad you like it here so far! This really is a great country and a beautiful magnificent city.
Hopefully next several weekends will be even more fun! 
says:September 6, 2007 @ 16:43
Ignat isn’t a regular commenter in my own diary either. He doesn’t like leaving comments. In our family I’m the one who does 
says:September 6, 2007 @ 17:30
You should give us a link to your blog (if it’s not private)!! We’ll live you comments. 
says:September 6, 2007 @ 20:52
What is private on internet? I have too many flashmobs and tests and very little clever thoughts in my diary, but if you are not frightened by this -
You are surely welcome! http://diary.ru/~JewelleryVita
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