Siberia

With Melissa at a Buryat restaurant





I had so much fun in Siberia, because their mentality is so entirely different! They are extremely pragmatic and care nothing for protocol. For example, when I couldn't get into the apartment building, some guy picked the lock for me.

Construction projects are left unfinished for years and everything is makeshift. We even saw an open ditch right in front of the school bus stop. My German friend was appalled and asked a local why they don't fill the ditch. "The kids could fall in!"

Siberian: "Why would they fall in? They're not blind."

The unorthodox Siberian mindset was so interesting and funny to us.


Dad, translating my testimony in Siberia