Екскурсавод с Амереканцами/Touring Guiding the Americans!!!

Yesterday I got to help take the "Americans" down to red square. However these are no ordinary Americans. There names are Johnny, Chase, and Andy. They are from Long Island, New York and they have these cool NY accents and they are so funny to me for so many reasons... oh yes and they have a combined weight of just under 1/2 ton. They are power lifters and they came to Russia for a lifting meet in St. Petersburg and then they wanted to go to villages and do lifting shows and go to orphanages also. They crack me up because they don't even care to make an effort to assimilate into Russia culture for example this is there list of restaraunts they have visited in Russia: МакДоналдз, Собвей, Сбарро, Карлз Джюнёр. If you can't read that it's McDonalds, Subway, Sbarro, Carls Jr.

THE GUYS DROPPED 1600 RUBLES AT MCDONALDS... IT WAS CHAOS LOOK HOW CROWDED THE PLACE WAS. LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THOSE GUYS... THEY ARE'NT SMALL.

They speak loud English everywhere we go and everyone looks at us and it makes me laugh. When we try to teach them a word like "good - хорошо (pronounced hor-o-sho)" they said " hey that sounds like our friend Harry Shaw, so they just said Harry Shaw anytime something was good. I got one of them to talk to me seriously about how he became a Christian, but other than that I have yet to hear something besides joking around out of these guys. Last night they spent about 20 minutes razzing one of the guys because he uses a loofa in the shower (keep in mind he is like 295 pounds) to me it paints a funny picture in your mind.
We went to Red Square to show them the area and their was a sports festival going on in the middle. It was so fun to walk through the square looking at all the different tents and seeing the exhibitions.


THIS WAS THE SOCCER SHOW... I THINK IT WAS THE MOST POPULAR SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL.

They had just about every sport you could think of being played in the middle of Red Square. I had such a good time walking around and watching everything.


THERE WAS A BOXING RING AND THEY SAW IT WAS EMPTY AND CHALLENGED ONE ANOTHER TO THE DEATH. BUT WHEN THE TIME CAME FOR ONE TO DIE.. MERCY WAS GIVEN.

After we went to Red Square, the guys wanted to go look at a certain gym in the area for serious lifters. So Anton and I split off because we had a special mission... you could say mission impossible (duh...duh...duh.duh.duh.duh) that was the theme song for mission impossible if you couldn't guess. Well the wife of the director here at the college is having problems with her Visa, so she is in Omsk which is 2 days by train and we had some secret documents for her and we could do one of two things: 1 send it through the Russian postal system which could take 2 weeks, or 2 go to the train station and find a devushka who worked for the train company and give her a "gift" for placing our documents in a special part of the train to be received in 2 days by the wife.

AT THE LENINSKY VOGZAL COMPLETING OUR SPECIAL MISSION... 5 DAYS INTO RUSSIA AND I AM ALREADY DOING UNDER THE TABLE DEALINGS WITH GOVERNMENT WORKERS!!!
Anton taught me how to find the right woman because if you choose wrong and she turns out to be stingy you could pay way too much, but if you choose right all will be smooth sailing. I I would see a devooshka and think alright this is the one, then look at Anton and he would say. No not right hair, or no too young, or no too old. We finally found the right one and gave her a token of our appreciation. Anton explained this process to me like this " It's not xow you say break rules, more bend rules so get stuff done."

THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE NEW BUILDINGS GOING UP IN MOSCOW WHICH THE RUSSIANS DON'T LIKE BECAUSE IT SPOILS THE BEAUTY OF THE OLDER BUILDINGS.

After the mission had been completed we called HQ and reported the success. Then Anton and I went for a two hour walk through Moscow. Anton is a Sambo Trainer which is like cage fighting but a little more grace and finesse involved(but not much) so walking downtown with Anton I felt pretty safe.  We had a good day and headed home on the electrichka(which is like a metro).