Quote Originally Posted by Paul G. View Post
I hope it was helpful for your collection of Russian bizarre stuff, Deborah.
Sometimes, to my American mind, some things do seem a bit bizarre at first. But when I had lived in Russia for a while, they seemed quite ordinary, and in fact when I returned to the States, there were many American customs which struck me as bizarre, even though at one time in my life I experienced them as "ordinary."

Living in another culture, breathing it in and continually trying to wrap your mind around different values and ways of thinking has a permanent impact on a person. I was never the same American after living in Russia for two years. My perspective of the world was altered forever. And that is really not a bad thing!