I bought a guitar a couple days ago which I really had been wanting to do. It was about four thousand rubles including the amplifie, which is not a bad price at all especially for russia where everything except food is pretty expensive. I bought it from this awesome guy Sergei Zubov, who spoke absolutely perfect english with a california accent. I actually thought he was an American tourist for a second. He had spent a few years performing in America and i guess that's why his english is so good. He is sort of a celebrity in Chuvashia, which is the part of Russia I live in.

Two days after buying a guitar I got kind of annoyed at the Russian postal service because I still didn't have my care package but I had revieved other mail. I went over to the post office with my bro Dima and I didn't even have my passport with me. I gave them a photo copy of it and then I saw the contents of my package and I sort of got mad. I just screamed in Russian: "Why is my mail here and why is it open?" over and over again and then I accused them of theft. They eventually just gave it to me repeating over and over again that it was everything, that everything was there. I have learned a valuable lesson:
If you don't get what you want in Russia, just shout very loudly and look really mad--then you will get what you want.

Now I need to go buy a bunch of ten cent gifts because it is womens day tomorrow.