Quote Originally Posted by TATY
Re: Hot water, don't most places have some boiler thing. I can't remember the Russian would, but it sounded like colonic.
Колонка, I believe is what you're referring to. They are AWESOME, b/c I think many places are wholly-reliant on the city water system for their hot water. I never, in my few months there, failed to have hot water -- which is much more than I can say for other students (I think about a quarter to a third of the home-stay students had колонки in their host-homes -- most didn't).

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