Evening on 15th
It takes a while I guess in Russia, but people do warm up after travelling a while together. There is this nice little family, a couple of cabins away, with two kids, Andre and baby Natalia. Another couple who I thought were young but are parents to 17 year olds.
I am unable to converse but I do see slices of Russian family through them. When we do talk, I have a feeling we are talking about entirely different subjects. I have not had a conversation I could get a grasp on what is going on. This seems very different than Japan. I was thinking Japan would be a lot more difficult which it was not. On the other hand, I thought I might be ok in Russia, but proved wrong again.
It is alright I guess, I am still alive and surviving well with friendly smiles once in a while.
The more chronic issue I have is related to food. It seems to me that there is potentially quite a bit of vegetarian food but since I am unable to communicate, I am not getting anything. Am sustaining on liquid diet for the past couple of days and am looking forward to pop into a good place in Irkutsk to get a good meal.
Other than the monotony, inability to speak and lack of good food, I guess everything is alright 
It doesn’t sound much like a trip eh, but really, it is enjoyable. The tiny villages we stop in, I see a lot of trade , milk, soft drink and supplies are offloaded. People trying to sell stuff by the platform, drunks walking up and down etc. We went past thus town which incidentally reached 62 below zero some years back. Kind of cool (pun intended) if u think about it.
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