vladivostok

seeing that i have been here 24 hrs +, ergo, as foremost expert, i expound upon above subject.

vladivostok basically looks like what i expected/read about; so far its been shrouded in mist, a compact grey and soviet port city. i feel like the mass of nautical structures/ships outweigh that of terrestrial.

in other ways its been totally different. russians are, in fact, much nicer and generally good natured than usually portrayed in popular american cinema. interacting has been pretty pleasant so far; got yelled at a few times by like grabbing things off store shops. i guess in russia, you ask the store peeps to fetch things for you. i guess this cuts down on shop lifting? not that people are really polite to you; but, i guess, not nearly as formidable as i imagined; although today this guy in a uniform, i think, tried his hand at trying to scam us into trying to bribe him? not sure, he was in a cop-esque uniform (dont know what actual cop even looks like, but i suspect they look more military, ie,, have camo) and he came and i think he was trying to ask for our papers (me and some other dudes from the hostel), but we just played russian-speakie dumb and was nice and he went off on his way eventually.

also, russian women here are fucking hot. i suppose this has been supposed by many before, but, theres these certain slavic/monogoloid/caucasian mixes which gives men a visceral appreciation for the word 'heterozygous advantage". they have this way of dressing, like, the trailing edge of hipster fashion, except, like more skin tight and they walk in this way that suggest they might like to crush you balls, pa-zhalsta