Ramen Heaven

So I've written before about adversitiments (and them being priamrly for the arts) but now I want to write about ramen. Yep. Ramen.

I was watching the World Cup last night on TV (and not just because you, BP prompted me too... It was a house bonding thing), and there was a commerical on for beef-ramen. Now first you have to understand that I'd been sick most of the day (even skipped classes -- gasp!) and hadn't eaten much. But it was about 9pm and I was craving food. But I didn't know what. Ice cream - net. potato chips - non. But then this commercial for ramen. Immediately, I knew. Yes! Yes! Ramen! Now! Feed Me!

And then I got to thinking. Ok - the ad was for beef ramen, but maybe they make veggie ramen. So I throw on some shoes, and call to my Russian mom (an oppertunity to practice the grammer - and my Russian intonation (damn my phonetics teacher)), "Is the grocery store still open?" "For another hour" she replies. And I'm off.

I, remembering that I had seen ramen earlier in the store, go directly to the Ramen counter (see earlier post about Russian grocery stores). And lo and behold, ramen c gribami - Ramen (you got that) with mushrooms. I was estatic. One please, I request. For 14 rubles (about 45 cents), I was in heaven. Got home. Boiled water. Waited 3 minutes (paced the house while waiting), and devoured. It was perfect. And advertising works. Yum.

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It's 34 degress celcius here (this equals rediculously hot), humid, and sticky. We live in sweat. And Russians don't like deodorant. Or A/C (rather - it's just usually -20C - so they don't need it.) I've succomed to the fact that I too will be sweaty, and smell. And life is good.

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I also found a phone card to call the states with - that's an amazingly good deal. $3 for 90 minutes. So - if any of you want to e-mail me your numbers again for a call from the Motherland, go ahead :) (AAB has my American cell for the summer so I've lost access to those numbers...)

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to be continued...