Water, and the search for an absence of carbonation in life.

Утро и я ещё не принимал дущ, что это!
Brilliant time last night, brilliant! This trip covers two days where instead of 3 million people walking around the streets of Kiev at a time there are around all 8 million. Вчера was the Day of Europe in downtown Kiev, they set up this massive stage and played the Kiev anthem and Europe anthem and had all of these country Kiosks of Europe down Хрещатік street, the main street through the центр. One of the host brothers in the families is a great guy named Bogdan and he took a selection of us around parts of Kiev that we hadn't seen with a few beers as it's totally savvy to do that in these parts. Bogdan is a brain surgeon. At 23. I talked to him a bit on that, he started training at 16 for it. Bribes are inherent in the medical field, as he makes only 100 or so USD a month from the government, so people pay him a sort of bribe-tip after an operation.
After a fucking marathon roll around the center had some time at the Russian-Ukrainian frienship arch, really sweet Soviet arch that is high up and the view stretches out over the Dniepr and the hills in Kiev, and surrounded by some post-Soviet kids hackysacking, techno, beer, and rides. If I find any wireless in Kiev I'll drop some pictures. Hit up this bar close to the center in a great area, that you drop into this alley really fast off of the designer name submersed population of the street. There is an unmarked door and you drop down some stairs to the lower level, all brick pillars and walls under one of the buildings and fucking filled with smoke. You'd have to rise about 2 miles from Kiev to take yourself out of the smoke anyways, so this just pooled under this building. Took down my first Ukrainian vodka shots, huzzah!, and some raw fish right after it. Bogdan was talking a bit about the Slavic drinking style, chase it with food, which is a great idea and the consistency of the vodka is already comparable to Gray Goose so it is a smooth fucking experience.
One part of the night around the parks Bogdan dropped his bottle on a sidewalk to leave it, not in a trash anywhere. He came up for it though, he said it is actually better to leave around beause the poorer old Ukrainians can pick them up and cash them in for something. So most people follow around in this, and it is something close to truth, as the streets are usually the cleanest.
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