Five days ago we lost our hot water. That is a big deal here, becasue even the cold water here that you get from your tap has hot water in it. It was three days into the five day spell without water that I decided that i was taking a shower. I could only stand about a minute and a half of direct contact with the water. It was really cold--there were actually tiny pieces of ice in it--I don't even know how that is possible... Anyway, after the shower I got pretty sick but it only lasted two days.

You know you are in Russian when the only clean people are sick.

So after five days they repaired our water system---the only problem---it was a Russian repair. The gave us back our hot water but they took away our cold water--nothing is free after all...
Seriously, five days of only freezing cold water and now we have only scalding hot water; it is more than a little bit ridiculous.

Our elevator has started stopping in the middle of a floor so you sorta have to duck and then jump down from the elevator to get out...or you could take the stairs.

My Englsih is officially going...sorry if there is any difficulty understanding this.