After our Tuesday blowout, Moscow’s making nice(er).
Yesterday I got to have coffee. Real coffee. I arrived at 5:50 for my 6:15 class at Sovkomflot where I teach Mondays and Wednesdays. Since I was stuck waiting for a bit, they asked if they could get anythig. I jumped at the offer.
You see, I don’t eat out much in restaurants here, there's nothing in the way of takeout coffee shops, and in the schools where I do go the coffee is always instant. I swear, the Sanka company must have incriminating photos of Moscow with an underage hooker, because they own this joint. In a land where caviar is everywhere, the vast majority of the coffee mixes like Kool-Aid. For a former 5-cups a day caffeine junkie, this has not been pleasant.
But Sovkomflot gave me “coffee, with milk” as requested. Which was actually a café latte in a china cup with an real silver spoon, sugar cubes…very hot, very real coffee. You have no idea how happy it made me.
Of course, in retrospect, Sovcomflot is one of the largest energy-shipping companies in the world, so I should have been pissed if I’d gotten Sanka in Styrofoam. But it was a pleasant surprise.
Next week, I’m showing up at 4:30.
Yesterday I got to have coffee. Real coffee. I arrived at 5:50 for my 6:15 class at Sovkomflot where I teach Mondays and Wednesdays. Since I was stuck waiting for a bit, they asked if they could get anythig. I jumped at the offer.
You see, I don’t eat out much in restaurants here, there's nothing in the way of takeout coffee shops, and in the schools where I do go the coffee is always instant. I swear, the Sanka company must have incriminating photos of Moscow with an underage hooker, because they own this joint. In a land where caviar is everywhere, the vast majority of the coffee mixes like Kool-Aid. For a former 5-cups a day caffeine junkie, this has not been pleasant.
But Sovkomflot gave me “coffee, with milk” as requested. Which was actually a café latte in a china cup with an real silver spoon, sugar cubes…very hot, very real coffee. You have no idea how happy it made me.
Of course, in retrospect, Sovcomflot is one of the largest energy-shipping companies in the world, so I should have been pissed if I’d gotten Sanka in Styrofoam. But it was a pleasant surprise.
Next week, I’m showing up at 4:30.
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