Chapter 11. The wedding anniversary.

Hello there.

Today is our wedding anniversary. Me and my wife got married fourteen years ago. We did it in 13th, Friday, at 13.00. Full raw of lucky numbers. :) It was hard time then. Russia survived consequences of the 'perestroika'. All the former structures of society was ruined and new ones are still not made. The period of lack, lack of everything. Besides we were students. We hadn't got money and we worked to collect them for our wedding. Our parents had little money as well due to enormous inflation which took place that time. To say, when I was a first year student I collected money for a camera, which was pretty expensive then. And I nearly done it when cameras dissapeared from the shops (as well as many other things). Besides I couldn't get my money back from the bank, it just didn't give them back. Finally, after years, just before the wedding I managed to get my money (without any compensation of course). I spent them all for the wedding posy for the bride. Nevertheless, we were young and fool of hope to cope with all our problems. (What about the expression 'fool of hope', isn't it nice? :) ) So we arranged our wedding party in our tiny flat. We invited our friends and relatives. They could hardly move because there was not empty room in there. Despite all of that it was fun and we were happy. What about the honeymoon, you're asking? Well, we did our diploma papers. :)

Tricia, I congratulate You with Your successful survival of the teenage party. I haven't such an experience yet. All we do to selebrate our children's birthdays for now is a dinner. They invite their friends but it hardly can be a party. Usually boys are bragging to each other their new toys during the party.

Speaking of soaps... May be Your are right saying that soaps attract audience with pictures of unknown life. But I think that they rather popular among people who are about loosing their track of life. At the moment, most of soap operas we watch here are made in Russia. Well, of course they are cloned from west series templates but characters are russian and the stage is similar to our daily life. Still they are popular. On the other hand I heard for several times that old and seek people said about the soap opera they watched: "I'm not going to die untill I know what all this stuff ends up with." In some mean it's a replacement for their dull existence. For instance, my wife doesn't watch soaps. She says they're too boring in comparison with her real work.

And finally some answers on comments. Thanks all who write them.
For Addeax from Germany: 'arrange a champing' means chew with a considerable noise.
For Aivanik from Moscow and for all those who are recently with us. I should mention that most pictures in my blog are not contemporary. They are taken in summer period and I attach them just for purpose of illustration the topic discussed. At the moment there is winter as well. I hope I could publish photos of present time in my nearest posts.
Believe it or not, I've been to Moscow for several times. I should say I don't like it very much. I find it too noisy, crowdy and fussy in comparison to my town (Nizhny Novgorod for those who don't remember or not aware)
For Jerry from China: thanks for good words; about videos I advise You to start with blockbuster series like "Harry Potter", "The Lord Of The Ring" and such. Besides them are interesting they also represent good common English. Especially if You're going to enjoy them with Your daughter.

Bye now.

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