1. Haunted mountain
A friend of Xenia’s friend, a guy she met couple of times before, once has proposed to show her a haunted mountain. He was claiming that there you can see little devils at night.
One day, after a couple of glasses of alcohol, Xenia and her friend, another girl, have agreed to go and check out the Devil’s mountain. They go in the guy’s car and get on top of the mountain, at 2 am in the morning.
The guy stopped the car, opened the booth and took out an axe. Yeah, a real axe. And started to run around with this axe, yelling: “Fucking devils, I will kill you all, bastards!!!” Imagine two scared girls, in the dark on the mountain and a guy running around with the axe shouting like crazy :D
He also started to scream something like: “Please don’t cut Sasha’s head, don’t cut his head” and as he explained afterwards, it was one of his nightmare memories from Afghanistan war, when he saw how Taliban cut his friend’s head.
Xenia started to talk to him, convincing drive them back and finally he has agreed. But when they got to the road, the car has stopped with no gas. It was a nightmare, in the middle of the night on the road with no gas and a crazy driver, but finally someone stopped and gave them a lift home :D
This is Russian horror movie :D
2.Russian bonus sauna
Sometimes Russian girls, especially young ones, try their luck by stopping expensive cars in the town and asking them to drive them home. The strategy is to get know rich men, who potentially could become their boyfriends or lovers, and to have fun. Risky business!!
Two girls where playing this way and stopped an expensive car. The guy instead of driving them home has invited them to go to sauna together. (As an explanation, in Russia, people don’t go to public saunas. You can rent a sauna with couple of rooms and a pool, for 1, 2 or more hours, eat there, drink there and spend time there. Its good especially in winter, when outside can be -30C :D)
So, the girls told the guy that they are serious ones, studying to be journalist and not some cheap hookers, and they are not offering any sex. The guy has agreed and promised its only to spend time together. He even showed them his ID and drivers license, so they will be sure he is not some kind of criminal.
One of the girls told him her uncle is a policeman and that she is sending guy’s ID number to him in case something bad happens – so this was their insurance, everything will be ok.
Finally they got to sauna and spend there 6 hours, eating and drinking on guy’s account, when he started to ask for more from one girl. They said that nothing is going to happen, as they agreed and guy suddenly stand up and walked away.
Girls didn’t know what to do, being afraid to go out and hear that the guy didn’t pay and now they need to pay for 6 hours of sauna and all the food, which was not cheap at all!
In the end everything ended up well, since guy actually has paid for everything, but left. The girls had only 100 rubles in the pocket (around 2 Euro), which was not enough even to take a taxi home.
Then they saw couple of drunk guys walking on the street. The guys asked what they can offer them for money and the girls said that they will give to one of the guys 5 minutes neck massage for 2,000 rubles (around 50 Euro).
The guy has agreed and after 5 minutes neck massage he actually gave them…2,000 rubles.
So in the end, the girls got home save and with some extra money in the pocket.
Yeah, welcome to Russia.
PS. The explanation of this action and many other similar ones, could be the incredible amount of rich people that you can find now in Russia. There are not so many of rich people comparing to the rest of population, but they are VERY rich. So they just through the money away, showing off. Of course these people did not get their money in a totally legal way – it is full of corruption, conflict of interests and out of control craziness of Russian mentality.
Once, when Xenia was dancing at some disco club, a guy from the table next to her threw something in her purse. She thought it might be his phone number. But when she got home and opened the purse, she found 5,000 rubles in it (120 Euros) and she even did not speak to the guy! Yep, not a joke!
a funny stuff is that in Plazkart sheets are not included in the ticket, so you have to pay them separately. You can not use your sheets and you can not sleep without sheets...so you pay in any case :D
We arrived to Tomsk at 17:30, where Denis, our host met us at the station and we went together to his place.
And this is the incredible Tomsk sky in the evening...never seen something similar :D
