Insomnia
Arriving home, I thought for a long time about the day spent. Going to bed, I thought about the finale of the evening, what did he want to say? The fact that he likes me, or hugged me to just shut up ?! But it seemed to me that these hugs were sincere. Almost all night I tried to find any reasons not to fall in love, but I did not succeed! In the morning I didn’t want to eat anything, it was like butterflies flying in my stomach at the thought of him. For breakfast, I got off with two sandwiches and a cup of black coffee...
Why do Russians not smile?
As a foreigner in Russia, I noticed that personal in shops are not smiling at clients. It surprised me, as in the west, personal are very politely smiling at costumers. Maybe this is fake smiling, in the west a lot is fake anyway, but getting a smile, makes you smile back and that makes you feel good and polite. Smiling is part of the service level that shops provide in the west. I tried to use humour and jokes to lighten things up, but whatever I did, it was not working. Personal react like they are tired and if they got a bad mood every time is encounter them...