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Zhenya Menakova
(Nikolskoe, Russia)
I am single parent of 1 in USA, white , 38 years old, student and sales employee.
I do not know where she exactly got my ad from. The time frame was 10-20-04 thru 11-24-04.
The money was sent WU, and was sent to her. 1 time. After sending of the money there was a few letters then none at all. I called to her and now she barely understood my english, Before she understood almost everything. We talked on phone about 3 times a week. When letters stopped i called to her and she would only say "do you receive my letters?" and I would reply no and she would say "no understand" and " Mark, write me email" or " Mark, I write to you email" which never came. Then she was never at home and i have cut my losses on trying to contact her. The last 2 calls i ask her to send me the money back WU. She only says I cannot, and when I say why she says the email response. I should have known better but I was nieve to this and stupid. I now know, by my costly lesson. I was angry at first but it is my fault for falling for such trick. I have many other photos if anyone is interested in them. mark30378@mac.com. Put Zhenya in the subject.
Mark
Letters:
Letter 1
Hello Mark.
My name is Zhenya. I write you from Russia. I found your marriage advertisement. Your information
and your goal of searches sounds interesting for me. I would be very glad to try to correspond, if you are
not against. I have my own computer at home, also at working place. And the daily correspondence is not a problem for me.
I want to send you my photo (I have a lot of photos, and I'll send it in future - if it would be interesting for you.)
I write you some basic information - my height is 1.65m, weight is 49kg, I have brown hair, blue eyes.
My birthday is 30.08.77. I never was married before and I haven't children as yet.
If you want I can write you my phone number and address, after your reply with desire to correspond.
I have one problem only - I do not know English well enough.I start to take special lessons of English in my town, and
I hope I'll solve this problem in a couple of months. Right now I write with help of special computer translating
programme, which help me to translate my Russian into English. I really hope to get your answer and questions.
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 2
Hello, Mark. Thanks for your letter.
I was very glad to get your answer! Well, I'll try to formulate my wishes and my my goal of searches
in this letter. I think, my main goal is the complex of two main wishes.
First, I want to find man, who would think I'm good girl to create new family together. I never was married before, I have no children,
and I think there is no point to explain for you why I want to find my future husband. I do not know, maybe women in your country do not
want to have own family and husband, but in my country any normal
woman want to have good family and beloved soul-mate, who would support
her in this hard life. It's quite normal wish I'll not prove and explain. OK?
Second, I think you want to ask me why I search for my future husband
abroad, if I can find my husband right in my town. So, I do not want to narrate all these fairy-tales about completely
and constantly drunk men in Russia, which have the nice hobby - to beat
their wifes all days and nights long. All these stories are from area
of stereotypes and tall tales about terrible Russia. Also, I can't say that I have hard and horrible life here. No, my daily
life is quite good, I can't complain. But if I want to find my soul-mate and to create family, why I can't
do it abroad, in better life conditions and with more stable economical
situation than in Russia? I have no false ideas about daily life abroad. I understand it's not
the Paradise, and people have a lot of problems and they are forced to work hard too, as well as here.
I'm well informed and educated, I have an inquiring mind, I'm able to adapt myself to new society and to the new life conditions without
problems, very easily.
So, what I wait from new life in other country and from my future husband?
I have no special strange demands. I want to find the understanding and love, to live by calm and interesting life.
I can't say I have very bright and clear imagination of my future husband
and my future family life and I have no tough requirements. I prefer to search for soul-mate, relying on my common sense and intuition,
also, in compliance with the basic human merits. So, it was basic explanations of my searches's reason.
Concerning way to keep correspondence and concerning first stage of relations
through Internet. I want to write you a couple of important requests, ok?
1. I would like to keep daily correspondence. 1 letter per 1-2 days.
Let it be short message sometimes, I understand all we are busy people,
but daily correspondence is very important, because there is no emotional
contact without it. 2. As the rule, man, who placed his ad in marriage site or newspaper,
get a great lot of answers. At the beginning there are no chance to say who is who. Where is your future happiness but where is bullshit.
And men make one big mistake too often. They try to guess most interesting
variants, being guided by voice from on high and pictures (I understand
that girl, who remind you favorite starlet will have more chances than girl
who remind you your hateful school teacher, even this starlet write letters
worse than circus chimpanzee). And they send refusal with excuses to
other girls (if they are polite men, of course).
It's wrong way. As the Russian girl, I know Russian gals much better than you.
90% write first letters just because of curiosity and amusement. A lot of girls are not able to keep correspondence. As the result -
you get a pair of answers from your the chosen ones, and you understand
after a week that it's was wrong choice and you start this process again
and again. Yes, if you got 50-60 letters - it's impossible to correspond with
whole world. But I can assure you - 90% of girlfriends will disappear
very quickly.
Therefore be patient keep correspondence during first 8-10 letters at least.
To get impression who is who. 3. Remember, that we are products of different systems, style of life
and cultures. Do not hurry to get fast opinion if you have some doubts.
Ask again if you not understand clearly enough some words and ideas.
Also you should remember I write in English, I can make a lot of mistakes,
just because I chose wrong words. So, I look forward to your answer!
Letter 3
Hello, Mark! Thanks for your answer. OK, I'll try to write about basic information.
- My phone number.
78136126781 - my home phone number. I live in Moscow time zone (+3 hours with London time, you can count
our time difference if you know your time difference with London time)
I want to ask you to write me the same. I live in North-West region of Russia,
in small town. Not far from Karelia region. If you can find town Tihvin on your map - my tiny town
is located not far from this town. A couple of high-rise buildings, cafe, cinema, a couple
of shops and a lot of small wooden houses. And a lot of dirt and mosquitos. Because my town is located
in swamp region. In one word - the really nice place. I rent one room in apartment together with other family.
They are nice people (my girlfriend with her husband and
a couple of snotty little monsters). Good flatmates. But sometimes I want to kill them. Yep.
If you'll not marry me in nearest future and if you'll not take me away from here, I'll kill them. :)
They are listening music and watching TV when I want to sleep, and vice versa - I'm listening music and watching my boob-tube when
they want to sleep. Or, for example, when I go to loo early morning,
someone is sitting there already. I go to bathroom - the same. I hope you live in own apartment.
- My family. I have one brother (he live in the same town. He is older then me).
That's all. I never was married before, and I have no children as yet.
My hobbies: - I like old music, acoustic guitar, swing, blues. Django Reinhardt, Joe Venuti, Bix Beiderbeck, and then Count
Basie, Duke Ellington, Lester Young, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and then Charlie
Parker and John Coltrane. Also I like old movies and musicals. Judy Garland, Jean Kelly, Fred Aster, Debbie Reynolds, Deanna Durbin.
- I like to read books and special information in field of wildlife protection, also study questions of national parks, reserves and
wildlife sanctuary, because it's close to my job. I work in department
of National natural resources of my region. - I like to travel and to see new places. I have no big possibilities
to do it, but I try to do it when I have such chances. I visited a lot of interesting and amazing places in my country and
in post-soviet republics also. I was in Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Northern Korea and in Harbin (China, I lived there with my parents
when I was young). - I like to be well informed about an political and culture news,
and I like to watch and to read last news. Also, you asked me what I want to find in my future husband.
Hard and easy question at the same time. I think, nothing special. He should love me, he should be able to care about our future family,
he should be kindhearted and responsive person, he should be interesting for me as husband and friend.
I do not search for rich life, I'm representative of "middle class".
But I'm well educated and quite active person and search for interesting life. It does not mean I do not want to be a housewife.
I like to cook, to keep my house and so on, but it's not enough for me.
I would like to live with an interesting and full life also. I have my first question, which is quite pragmatic.
First of all, I should explain why I ask this question. As I do not search for just a virtual correspondence,
and I do not search for just a pen-friend, I want to ask you about your plan to develop your correspondence.
I search for man who search for wife abroad in nearest future, and who
are able to put his money into this quite expensive project. Sorry for these straightforward words (and for word "money" especially),
but I wouldn't want to correspond with man, who have quite vague ideas
or who have not good economic situation and who decided to start long-term correspondence in hope to solve real questions somehow
in far far future. I hope my question will not upset you, it's just the theoretical question to realize your plans.
Also, I would like to know information about your place, your living
conditions, and your job in detail, ok?
OK, I kiss you and I look forward to your answer.
Sincerely, Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 4
Hello, Mark! Thanks for your call!
It was amazing and wonderful to hear your voice! How is your day? You know, there is a very rainy
weather today. We haven't snow as yet, but I think everything around will be
white in a week or two.
I dislike winter. I'm a child of hot and sunny weather, a child of summer.
All my childhood remembrances are concerned with summer time. And all my childhood and young years have passed in rather cold places.
My parents had building contracts, and I have been compelled to live
together with them, certainly. We lived on the Outermost North and the Far East of Russia. Kamchatka and Chukotskiy
region. Therefore I do not love winter. The winter lasted during 8-9 months in those
territories, and the summer was coming to an end not having a time to begin.
I think I have three very strange characteristic properties because of my youth in the
Outermost North.
For example, I dislike winters and I like sunny and warm weather very
much. Also, I do not sleep during the night practically. Polar night lasted during 6 months after that polar day lasted during 6 months.
My normal cycle has been broken, and as a result I sleep after my working day till 9-10 p.m., after that I do not sleep till 3-4 a.m.,
and after that I go to sleep again. Also, you'll be surprised, but I do not eat vegetables and fruits
practically, 90% of my diet is meat. During my youth years I have possibility to eat meat, fish and some grass
against the scurvy only. I have seen an apple first time in my life when I was 12. And now my diet is a little bit strange. I eat meat
and seafood only. OK, it's enough of recollections. Listen, my girlfriend gave me long interesting questionnaire.
I decided to fill in it and to send you (this questionnaire have about
50 questions, I can answer about 15 in this letter). OK? It would be interesting and hear your answers too.
1. What is your full name? Zhenya Menakova 2. How BIG is your family?
Only me and my brother and parents. That's all folks. :) 3. What is your favorite thing to do when you're not working?
Good question. I like to do everything, if only not to work. :) I like to watch movies (clever movies, or blockbusters), to watch TV
news, to read magazines, I like travel and adventures. 4. What was your dream when you were little?
When I was a little girlie, I have dreamt - a. To be an astronaut and
to fly to other inhabited Worlds. b. To be famous naturalist, to live
in jungle and to rescue animals. c. To create Time Machine and to learn
history and dinosaurs. d. To be one of "The Beatles" and to play together
with these guys from Liverpool.
5. What is your dream now? The same, Mark, the same. 6. Favorite drink?
I like specific Russian cocktail.
50% of vodka + 50% of beer. To mix in one glass. Headache is guaranteed. :)
Ok. ok. I like kvass, milk and pineapple juice. 7. Could you live a simple, but adventurous life filled with love?
I'm not sure concerning meaning "simple" or "not simple" life, but my life
should be adventure with love, without doubts. 8. What material things and creature comforts do you need to have?
I want to have cozy home. With ordinary set of improvements. My main goal in this life - to learn and to see this World as much as possible.
I like to travel, to see another places and get rich inwardly. To sit, having surrounded itself neighbors and to compete in external well-being,
being inflated as the soap bubble is not my way.
9. Where do you want to live (city, suburban, seaside, country, mountains,
desert)? I prefer to live in country-side near to big city. When I imagine best place for me, I imagine little isle in
Wide Endless ocean. Tiny island with palm-trees, with the slow and calm
ocean rote, when two persons are sitting right on the very brink of universe.
I have a map, and I found such tiny isle in the middle of Pacific ocean. With Polynesian name "Rapa Nui". It mean "Navel of the Earth".
I like this name. Very beautiful, right?
10. Would you relocate for love? Yes, I would. 11. If we were married and had an argument right before bedtime, what would
you do? Mark, I have strong Russian mentality, and it would be better if you'll not
argue with me, moreover right before bedtime. OK? :) joke. 12. In general, how would you like to handle any disagreements?
I see very easy way - to try and to want to find solution together. 13. For what reason would you break your sacred vows of marriage?
I hate treason and betrayal. Any kind of betrayal. I'm very patient girl,
but if man will be unfaithful to me - I can break my sacred vows of marriage
and to kill him after that. 14. Do you believe in True Love? Yes. 15. Do you believe in Jesus?
Most hard question, you know. I should answer this question very in detail,
and I'm afraid my English is very bad to explain you my position. I'm very
faithful to Russian Orthodox religion. Anyway - our religions are similar because we believe in good things.
16. What is your favorite animal and give me 3 reasons why? This question is hard for me. I like all kinds of animals.
I have little green parrot. I like them because he is most terrible
bird in the World. He know a lot of bad words. He is very greedy, selfish and rowdy-dowdy.
He is trying to catch my cursor in monitor at moment, and he is very
angry because he can't do it. :) 17. When you die you get a second change to come back to life
as a any animal/fish/bird/insect,what will it be and give me 3 reasons why?
Mark, do not tell me you want to be any insect, ok? :) I think, I want to be very rare panda from The Red Book, and people will
feed me, coddle me, to fuss over me like a child over a new toy, and to drag my boy-friends to me from other zoos. ha ha ha :)
Yes, I swear I'm loving and affectionate person. And my height and weight is 165/50.
OK, I look forward to your answer! Kiss!
Zhenya
Letter 5
Me again. Mark, I forgot to write. I tried to start correspondence with a couple of men, but for some reasons, other two
correspondences were stopped. I'm very glad we have very good and promising start.
Kiss you again.
Zhenya
mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 6
Good evening, my eagle Mark! Thanks for your letter with answers! I just came back home, because I was forced to stick around
at girlfriend flat with "Saturday's courtesy visit". How is your weekend?
I have no special plans, but anyway it's the not bad thing - to relax during two days, even simply at home.
Moreover I have some necessity work, which I should to do, but during all this week I was telling myself
over and over again - "Ok, I'll do it tomorrow...I'll do it tomorrow...I'll do it tomorrow..." as well as my parrot.
Therefore I should do it finally...tomorrow. ha ha ha ha :) No, joking apart, the point is that I should make my room
habitable in winter. I have big window and the door to balcony and the cold wind is blowing through all chinks.
I'll stop up the chinks tomorrow with special paper and foam-rubber.
It's not the warm nice resort, it's Russia, you know. Well, tomorrow I'll clamber onto my table and try to fill up
the chinks in my window-frames. I'm so afraid of highness. Yes, really, I'm very brave gal,
I can take snakes and spiders into my hands, but I'm afraid of highness and I can do nothing with these fears. Therefore if
you'll hear "BANG! ZAP! BANG!" and the seismic movements of the ground tomorrow in your place - do not worry. It's your
girlfriend from far far Russia has crashed from the table. :) 1. Were you born in Russia? and where?
Yes, I was born in Russia, here in Leningrad region. 2. Are your parents from Russia also?
Yes. 3. Can you tell me about your relationships in the past and what
happened?
Yes I had. Nothing serious. Just the temporary relations without serious intentions. What happened? Nothing.
4. How has a beautiful girl like you not married yet? Why I should be married? I hadn't plan to marry before therefore I'm not married.
5. Is it possible for you to ever visit to the U.S.? If you ask about my wish - yes, certainly. What do you mean
when you ask about "possibility"?. 6. If we were to meet in St. Petersburg, is it far to your house? I
would like to visit your home. Yes, surely. I can write you about my preliminary ideas in this
question. Any discussion of possible first real meeting can be solved
by three ways. - If you have wish and chance to come to my town - you are welcome.
But I'm not sure this way would be realistic, because my town is located
to far from bit cities, you should travel by train. Also we haven't hotels in my town but I rent a room in flat with other family.
- If you want to meet in any big city with International airport (St-Petersburg, for example) - I can borrow needed money for my
travel expenses till our real date and to come, but do not ask you to send money beforehand. It does not mean I'll pay travel expenses
from my pocket. I have no such possibility and I'll never do it. But I can try to borrow needed money till real meeting,
if you'll promise to pay my travel expenses when we'll meet.
- If you'll have any other offers concerning place of date - your country for example, you should solve all questions with my
travel expenses on your own beforehand. It's my plan. 7. Do you have a car?
Nope. And I never had my own car. 8. Can you get Yahoo instant messenger or AOL messenger on your
computer? It is free and is a way to type back and forth messages with
no wait. They go through instantly. Also do you have a web cam? i have
ordered one but it is not here yet. I know about yahoo.com, but such conversation demand
constant and direct connection with Internet (such service
is very expensive for our daily life here). I haven't possibility to connect with Internet directly.
We have one Internet dealer in town only. It's our post-office. They have special equipment to connect with dealer in
St-Petersburg. When I write or get letters, I send my letter to our post-office, and they send it through
St-Petersburg into my server. I connect with post-office by our local phone-line and I haven't possibility to connect
to Internet directly and to see any pages with Internet explorer. Therefore I get your letters not at same moment when it come
to my mail-box, but when I send my answer of your previous letter.
I connect with post-office, send my letter and they send me your letter from my mail-box at the same time.
In a word - our Internet connection is the same as at Stone Age. :) 9. How long do you think is acceptable to date or get to know one
another before getting married? I think we'll need real relations during a couple of months.
10. Do you think you can fall in love with someone and commit to be
with them for the rest of your life like we are doing now? Yes, I hope.
11. Will you write me a hand written letter? Even if you cannot write
in english, I would like to have a letter with your writing on it. I
know I sound silly but I would like to have a part of you here with me
to touch. Am I crazy? I can write such letter, without problems. But if you want to be sure
in my reality I know better ways - I can scan out my International passport and send it to you.
12. If our relationship goes like i hope it does and we decide to get
married, do you know the process we would have to go through? Can you
find out these details for us? As we'll marry by the rules of your country and to live in your
country, it would be better if you'll find out such rules. Can you send me your mailing address?
Oktyabrskaya street h.9 fl.12 town Nikolskoe, region of Leningrad, Russia
Well, have a very good weekend! Kiss you!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 7
Mark, hello honey!
Thanks for your new pictures and letters! Wow! Wonderful alligators! I would like to swim somewhere near to that
place. :) "Lipsticktrace"? Because of one good old song. "Lipstick trace, tra-la-la-la...on a cigarette..tra-la-la.." :)
Mark, I should go to sleep, because there is the deep night here, I'll
answer your letter tomorrow, ok? Right now I have a couple of new questions!
- What is your current dating situation?
5 marriages, 5 divorces and 8 children ha ha ha :) joke. I'm still single, but it's seems to me I found one good guy. :)
I really hope our correspondence will be successful. - How planned do you prefer a date to be?
I prefer an improvisation, because a lot of things will be changed in accordance with our wishes
and possibilities, also because of any unexpected events. Therefore I prefer to make no exact plans. Just basic plan.
- What are some activities that you'd enjoy on a date? Well, you should show me your house, explain me in detail
any trifles of your daily life, to show me your city, because all these things are very interesting to me.
Also, I want to see any sights and wonderful places (you should remember, that a lot of things which are quite usual and boring
for you are very unusual and interesting for me). I do not think about shops and restaurants, I think about some new impressions
of new place. First date for me is very good chance to see my possible
future life and country, and such date should be very cognitive. - Tell us about your views on dating etiquette. Door opening? Who pays?
I can open doors, but I can pay nothing. I live in "rubles system" country and
all countries with euro or dollar-system are very expensive for me.
Also, I heard that women abroad pay on their own. In Russia it's big insult for women. Women in Russia pay on their own if their man is
just the friend and it's business date. If Russian women want to pay during
romantic date - they want to show she reject any romantic relations with her man.
- Tell us what you expect to happen on a first date. I'm very open person in this question. You are welcome.
I can say only I would like to sleep not on the bench in public park and
to eat not from refuse bins. :) ha ha ha
- What would be your dream house? Cozy cottage in the country.
- If you were a car, what kind of car would you want to be? I want the car which would be cozy inside and nice outside, and with four wheels.
And most important thing - my girlfriends should tell "Wow! What a nice car!"
OK, I kiss you and I look forward to your answer!
Letter 8
Hello Mark! Thanks for your letter, honey! I just came back home from my firm. My working day is over, thanks God.
I got your pictures, thank you very much! Yes, my address is right. Coffee? Great! :)
Well, I continue this endless questionnaire (your tortures continue:):
20. What is your favorite and least favorite thing about yourself? I'm self-critical person enough. I know my merits and demerits.
If to tell about more bright, about main merits and demerits - I think I can mark next demerits -- I'm too straight person. I tell what I want to tell, and if I
dislike something I'll write about it at once. Sometimes I think I know right way or how to do something more correctly and I can
argue furiously. I'm afraid I'm too touchiness and unforgiving person,
and if somebody offends me - I'll remember it during too long time.
I have too wild sense of humor. When I write my letters I'm afraid constantly some of my jokes can be too doubtful for you, for person
with other mentality. My merits - oh, dear...I'm afraid it should be too long list to enumerate
all my merits in one letter. I can tell - my main merit - I'm able to control all my
demerits. 21. What is your favorite thing you▓d like to see in the World?
Right now I want to see...a...any national parks of the World, I like beauty of Nature more than monuments of human's ambition.
22. What is your favorite thing to see where you live? A..a..sorry? Does it really means my boring out-of-the-way hole?
wow. To tell the truth I do not know not one famous thing in my town
except me. :) 23. If you left your country, what would you miss? A lot of things. But when I'll leave my country - it doesn't mean I should
fly to the Moon with one-way ticket, right? Our World too small now. I'll have possibility to be visiting Russia and
to communicate with my friends when I'll wish. Right? 24. If we were married, could you adventurous and fun with lovemaking, and
only with me? I like good sex. With man who really love me. 25. Would you rather that we worked more to have more money or work less and
have more time together? I prefer the happy medium. 26. How much "space" do you need (time alone)?
Sometimes. I can't specify exactly right now. It depends on a great lot of conditions. I think when two persons fall in love, they'll need
their own free space and "time alone" in any case, but it can be very
organic and without insults. So, your questions, Mark - 1. Concerning my past relations. Listen, I do not know, maybe in America
all relations between guys and girls are very serious and all these relations have the end in church, I do not know. But in my country
there are a lot of relations when partners never plan something serious. I had such kind of relations only. I never planned to marry,
now I search for serious relations. Therefore I go such hard way and
I correspond with you. 2. So, I visited today our travel agency in my town and I have long
conversation concerning any possible way to meet if my friend live in
USA. Mark, I'll establish a facts, which I found out in agency, without any comments concerning our wishes and possibilities, ok?
I have three way to come to your country, in my case (I'm not the business person with good economical situation here, I'm not
the public famous person, and my possible trip have no connection with my official job). Such countries as USA or Canada have the very
hard rules of visa here for ordinary average persons. Also, my case is quite hard because I have no embassies near to place
where I live. There nearest embassy is located in St-Petersburg (I should go by train during 5-6 hours, and as such applying for
a visa demand a couple of my own visits of embassy - to give all
needed papers, to have interview, to get the visa - you can see that my own, personal applying for a visa is a very hard task).
Well, three ways to get a visa and to come to your country. - If I have very close relatives in your country which send
me official invitation. It'll work if I have some members of my
family abroad, which invite me for a while. - Fiancee visa. Such way demands a firm decision to marry,
very radical steps (I should go once and for all, or, if we'll change our decision for a couple of months as a minimum).
Such way demands a lot of papers from me and from you. Also, I can't
plan such visit with Fiancee visa and to keep my job here at the same time.
- I can come as the tourist. Such way will demands preliminary payment of full package of tourist trip. Embassy will check all
needed tourist papers before to give me the tourist visa - round trip
ticket, voucher from hotel, medical insurance and papers about my job and my month income.
Agency told me they sent a couple of citizens of our town into USA and Canada as the tourists already.
If they will try to send me as the private tourist - they have chance
to get my visa - fifty-fifty. 50%. If they will send me as the student, with student tourist trip
to study language and culture - my chances are about 90%. But I repeat - such way with tourist visa demands preliminary
payment of tourist trip directly to tourist agency. Agency told me that a lot of people meet in some neutral territory
without such problems with visa. For example - you can send me ticket and copy of voucher from hotel
(if place of our meeting demands for my visa). But it'll not work with USA,
Canada, Australia, England and some countries of Europe. Countries with hard visa mode will demand the full package of tourist trip.
Well, Mark, I'll wait for your comments, ok? Mark, I took the e-mail address of our agency.
tihvintravel@mail.ru They know about our question and you can write them request tomorrow
and ask about detail. They will send you my flight-list, price and some detail of my possible trip, ok?
Mark, I look forward to your answer! Kiss!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 9
Hello, Mark! Thanks a lot for your letter! I just came back from my office.
My brother have left with business trip yesterday again, and he handed
me my niece. I'll be forced to play mommy this week again. Today is the parents' gathering in her school and I should visit this boring
meeting after my working day. Teachers in our schools convene such meetings every month.
To praise and to hold up as an example the obedient and diligent children,
to criticize the others (and my niece above all), but as the rule, the main goal of such meeting is to complain about any school problems
and to try to empty the parents pockets as much as possible. I foresee such procedure tonight.
We have November holiday in nearest future (you know, Socialistic revolution was
in November about 100 years ago. We have no socialism already, but we continue
to celebrate this holiday). All schools in preparations to this strange holiday (now this holiday have name
The Day of harmony and reconciliation. ha ha ha ha. Something like Thanksgiving day in USA. When Indians thanks settlers because
they stole their land. And we thank communists in this day because they stole
100 years of our life. ha ha ha). Well, therefore school will beg for parents money to buy some color balloons,
garlands and other bullshit for holiday. Also I foresee unpleasant conversation with niece teachers.
I saw her pupil's mark book. Yeah...man. It's not the pupil's mark book, it's masterpiece of Salvador
Dali. Totally red because of angry complaints and jeremiads of her teachers.
I had no chance to find even one mark "4". Our school system have 5 levels of marks in school.
"5" - the pupil is fine fellow and he will be Albert Einstein. "4" - the pupil is not the Albert Einstein, but not bad anyway.
"3" - ordinary normal child, which do not like to study (I was such child)
but who is too stupid to not study at all. "2" - very bad. The pupil do not study or he (she) like to idle in class.
But it does not mean he (she) is stupid, maybe such pupil is too clever and realize that school education is bullshit.
Such pupil will be janitor or politician. "1" - as the rule, teachers do not use this mark. Such mark shows that
pupil have no brains at all. OK, Mark, I kiss you. I asked my girlfriend to take my new photos in
nearest future and she promised me. I'll try to take my new pictures
this week.
I kiss you and I look forward to your answer!
Letter 10
Mark, hello again, honey!
Listen, I've just got your letter with picture of your arsenal. Wow! I can't believe my eyes! Mark, you can arm all army of US I think.
Cool! Listen, I never tried to shoot from real gun. I want to try! Can I shoot somewhere in quite calm place when I'll be with visit?
I want to try to shoot from machine-gun. Bang,bang,bang!!! Tra-ta-ta-ta-ta, bang, bang!!! Cool.
We can visit some nearest bank and to ask some money. :) ha ha ha ha
Good idea! Dear, you asked me - no, I have no relatives abroad, it's a pity.
You are my first possible relative abroad. :) OK, I kiss you again! I look forward to your answer!
Zhenya
mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 11
Mark, I got your last message. Yes, of course I plan to stay at your house.
Agency told me I should arrive and departure with tourist group only,
but during my staying in USA I shall be absolutely free.
Mark, I have no idea about price of such trip, agency told me that such trip have price about 1800-2000$.
OK, honey, I look forward to your answer!
Zhenya
mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 12
Mark, thanks for your new pictures! Yes, I prefer this big black tommy-gun, ok?
Thank you very much for your help with my red eyes. Hey, people! I can see again! It's a miracle, folks! :)
You asked me about my possibility to stay longer if our date would be
successful. Yes, of course, if we'll plan to live together I'll back
to settle a questions with needed papers only. Mark, your question about my teeth was so funny.
I have no problem with teeth. I have 32 white teeth, but when somebody try to take my pictures I feel
myself very constrainedly, I do not know why. I can joke and laugh one second prior, and to turn into
mummy if somebody aim a object-glass at me. OK, I go to sleep. Sweet dreams! I wait for your letter!
Zhenya
mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 13
Hi, Mark. Thank you for your answer, honey!
Mark, dear, I called to agency right now, they told me they got all your
messages but they had no
possibility to answer it because their working day was over already, but they promised me to answer you
today. Mark, agency have some urgent information concerning my flight,
because when you wrote exact airport where you'll be pick me up, they
have a chance to found very cheap tickets for me. They told me we should decide quickly because this tickets for concrete date -
November 18. I asked them to send you information as soon as possible,
and they will send you my flight list if this information will be
interesting for you, ok? Thank you very much for your parcel! Kiss kiss kiss!
I look forward to your presents, honey! You know, I sit at my working place and I wait for some news with trepidation.
The point is that we have vague news already, that municipality of our town want to declare this Saturday as the
"subbotnick". No, do not hurry to run to air-raid shelter and do not hurry to say goodbye to
relatives. "Subbotnick" is not the day of nuclear attack and not the big crazy carnival in my town.
It's day of my grief and tears, because it's the day of public works - employees of our
municipality should tidy up town and streets during a couple of Saturdays every year.
This job is honorary and on a voluntary basis (but at the same time,
if I have no wish to do it on a voluntary basis and if I'll refuse, my
boss will force me to regret that thoughtless decision. :) Therefore, very likely, tomorrow I'll dress up as the Russian peasant
of XIX-century and I'll be forced to besom streets of my town and to wield
a broom all day long. Oh boy, I'll be looking like a real classic witch from children's
books. :) I really hope these rumors are wrong. So, I look forward to your answers, ok?
Have a very good day! Kiss!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 14
Hello again Mark!
Mark, thank you for your answer! Mark, I called to agency, they told
me they have your request to find the flight on November,23. They told me they sent you possible variants.
Listen, I found pictures of my town and I want to show you a couple of most interesting photos.
First photo is my church. Our church is located not directly in town,
but in outskirts of town, in the wood practically. I took this photo last winter. I had pictures of church inside, but I
can find it. There are a lot of gold decorations and icons inside.
Very beautiful. Next photo is my firm where I work. My floor is fourth floor (last).
We count floors since the ground, in Russia. First floor is the floor which is located on the ground.
I write about it because I heard something that people abroad count floors somehow differently.
OK, my floor is fourth and you can see big half-round window (it's my window, I look sadly through this window at the free life,
when I sit in my office). Next photo is the center of my town. You can see pink building
in the background, it's the building of municipality. And last photo is place right near to my house. You can see the part
of my house (I showed it by arrow). Now you can imagine a little bit the place where I live.
OK, I kiss you and I look forward to your answer!
Letter 15
Hello again Mark!
Mark, thank you for your answer! Mark, I called to agency, they told
me they have your request to find the flight on November,23. Mark, can you write me what date is more convenient?
Agency told me about your request on November, 23, but you write me about December,10. Maybe they not understood your well enough?
They told me they sent you possible variants. Listen, I found pictures of my town and I want to show you
a couple of most interesting photos. First photo is my church. Our church is located not directly in town,
but in outskirts of town, in the wood practically. I took this photo last winter. I had pictures of church inside, but I
can find it. There are a lot of gold decorations and icons inside. Very beautiful.
Next photo is my firm where I work. My floor is fourth floor (last).
We count floors since the ground, in Russia. First floor is the floor which is located on the ground.
I write about it because I heard something that people abroad count floors somehow differently.
OK, my floor is fourth and you can see big half-round window (it's my window, I look sadly through this window at the free life,
when I sit in my office). Next photo is the center of my town. You can see pink building
in the background, it's the building of municipality. And last photo is place right near to my house. You can see the part
of my house (I showed it by arrow). Now you can imagine a little bit the place where I live.
OK, I kiss you and I look forward to your answer!
Letter 16
Hello again, Mark! Thank you honey for your phone call! I was very glad to hear your voice again and to speak with you.
Mark, if I understood correctly your explanations, you want to ask me to find dates of my visit with my arrival after
December,14. Write me please, is it would be convenient for you if I'll ask agency tomorrow to find possible trip with my arrival on
December,14 with duration of trip about 2 weeks. Is it convenient for
you? Agency is confused a little bit, because they thought you search
for nearest dates of my visit, after that they thought you search for my arrival on November, 23. I asked they
yesterday about possible trip in the second half of December also, but they told me
you search for more cheap price of trip. The point is that all tourist trip in the second half of December is very expensive
here,because of winter holidays. A great lot of tourists wants to go
to take a rest in the second half of December. Therefore all tourist trips during any holidays are more expensive.
I'll try to ask agency to find the trip with arrival on December,14 with the same price as during November.
But if price will be more expensive I think it would be better to come
on November,23 than to come on December,14 but with more expensive price of trip. We'll have a lot of time even you'll be busy a little
bit during your working days. What do you think? OK, I kiss you and I'll call to agency tomorrow and to ask them
to try to find possible trip on December,14 with the same price. OK?
Sweet dreams! Kiss kiss kiss!
Letter 17
Hello Mark! I just got your last letter with questions. Dear, I'll try to answer your question now, and I'll call to agency
tomorrow to ask them to find the trip with more convenient dates. 1. Do you read English very well?
I can read a little bit, because this daily practise with writing letters help very much to study writing English.
But I'm afraid if I'll read menu in English I risk to order something completely uneatable. :)
2. It would be a good idea if you give me some of your close friends
e-mail... Mark, I should ask such permit first, ok? I'll try. 3. I cannot remember, do your parents live near you?
In my town, yes. 4. More personal question. When you come here you said you do not mind
staying at my house. We can live in one room, without problems. Tell me honestly - are you sleep-walker?
do you walk during your dreams? do you snore as the brass band? :) ha ha ha
5. So you have nice trip, what do you wish for us to do? This way I can
come up with ideas and make plans for us. Mark, I think about our meeting, but I have no idea what we'll do
concretely. I should think it up. 6. Do you have good dentist there?
I have no problems with teeth. Really. 7. Concerning children. I think we should solve such questions step by
step, together of course. I'm not crazy about children, our life should give us answer without any haste.
8. The agency said that I should send the money mark, I do not know other ways except to use usual bank transfer to
account of agency or to use WU-bank. Both of these ways are quite safe. Agency can't get your transfer and to tell me that they did get
it. I can check it, and our agency never did something bad in past, because we have only this agency in my town and everybody perfectly
know each other here.
9. Do you think by our conversations and talking to each other that we
will be compatible? Yes, I think so. 10. How do you like to be pampered by your boyfriend?
Oh, Mark, you are welcome to any ideas in this question. :) 11. 2-3 times a week. (concerning sex) Not because I have some
special journal where I register the quantity of sex during a week. :)
No. I wanted to say that I like sex relations and 2-3 times a week is my usual normal sex-life. Of course I never limited it by some
special limits. 12. What are your ideas on where we will live, I know what kind of
setting you want, but is it very important what state?
Do you mean what state of America? I have no idea, it's all the same for me.
OK, Mark, I kiss you and I should go to bed!
Zenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 18
Good morning, Mark! Thanks for your letter with new nice picture! Yes, I have brother and parents, they live in my town.
They know about my correspondence, but not in detail. Of course they know that maybe I'll live abroad in future, but they
are not against. My parents are pensioners already, my brother work
in some municipal firm as the art-designer. What do I imagine will happen from me picking you up until you depart?
I hope we'll have the great time together and we'll try to know each
other as better as possible and we'll discuss my possible final arrival with fiancee visa. Yes, I hope.
Mark, in our case both of ways - WU-bank or account of agency are the
same things. You should find out what way would be more cheap for you,
agency can't take your transfer without me. I found out - when you transfer will come to account of agency they will call me and we'll
go to bank together, because they will need my information (your name, address) and my signature. Without these things they
can't get your transfer.
I pack my suitcases already :) I write you this letter from my working place, while everybody
around think I do some very important job in my computer. Yes, you are right, I'm very bad girl. :) But if you would have
my month income (about 120$ per month) I think you would idle about at your working place too.
Listen, what are the prices of usual things in your place? It would be interesting to compare with our prices.
For example (I'll write prices in dollars, for better understanding,
although we use here rubles only) - 1. Rent of my room in flat per month (all taxes) - about 30$
(we have quite cheap taxes and payment of public utilities here, but apartments prices are very expensive even in my town.
Two-rooms apartment have price about 35-40 thousand dollars). 2. I spend about 2-3$ when I buy meal every day, we have cheap prices
of meal food food here. 3. Also we have cheap prices of any usual things.
One DVD - about 3-4$, one box of cigarettes - about 30-40 cents, one bottle of wine or vodka - about 2-5$ and so on.
4. Internet connection is quite expensive, because it's unusual thing here.
I should pay about 20$ per month for Internet. After all my taxes and expenses for meal, I have about 20$ of pocket
money every month.What are your expenses every month? This morning I tried to recharge cartridge in my ink-printer.
It was amazing circus show, you know. I had no idea how to open cartridge and I twiddled it in my hands as prehistoric man,
which tried to realize how to use his first implement. But you should be proud of me. I opened it. And I poured out
all ink onto myself. :) I was dirty as the smudgy pig, from head to foot.
I tried to wash off, but it was very strong ink, and anyway right now I look like real nigger (sorry for this word, but in Russia
we haven't niggers, therefore we use this word and nobody take offence
:) ha ha ha). OK, joking apart. I kiss you with my hot and tender kiss and
I look forward to your answer!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 19
Good evening, Mark! Thank you for your letters and post-card with nice
black cat. Kiss you! I'm sitting now and watch TV. Some terrible horror-movie about VERY BIG SPIDERS which eat law-abiding
citizens of America. :) Ugh...Tomorrow I'll sit at home, I have one day off in my office and I'll spend my
tomorrow's day for shopping and some other goals. Yes, dear, I'll visit agency and I told them your
information in detail. Also I asked them to answer you as soon as possible.
Yes! These dates of me visit are wonderful! We'll have our own Christmas and New Year!
Listen, I'm ill a little bit. Dang. Damned Russian reality and especially terrible weather in my place have baneful influence
onto my gentle health. Yestreen, late on the evening my temperature skyrocketed to 37,5C.
My town is located on real swamp, and climate is very bad, because too wet, and the cold weather is alternating with quick rise in
temperature and next day cold weather again. Therefore it's too easy
to catch any virus and to fall sick.
My girlfriends-lassies tried to visit me today, with condolences and funeral wreaths, but I've reserved our hen-party for the future.
Today I feel myself not well. I've caught a chill, I think. I have a sore throat and little ague. And I want to lay in bed and
do not want to lift a finger. Mark, I'll answer your questions from other letter tomorrow, ok?
OK, I go to bed. Sweet dreams!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 20
Hello Mark!
How is your Friday? I foresee two long days of deep rest. Hurray. Mark, dear, I'll answer your questions from your letter, ok?
1. What kind of meats do you prefer? chicken? Fish? How do you like them prepared?
So, good question. I like culinary questions. Not because I like to cook,
but because I like to eat. My favorite food is seafood, but not fish. I like crawfish, caviar,
squid and oysters. Also I like meat very much. It's 80% of my daily ration actually. I like fish less. Sometimes I buy and cook river fish.
I dislike sea fish. Cat-fish, pike and burbot only. How do I like to cook
them? I like fried meat. I like boiled tongues. I'm not sure maybe people abroad do not eat tongues, but here it's delicatessen.
2. What kind of drinks do you like? Milk, coca cola, pepsi, water, orange juice, etc...
I like juice, but not orange, I like pineapple juice and apple juice.
I like milk and koumiss especially. Koumiss is the mare's milk. You know I like all dairy produce. I like cheese very much.
I dislike coca cola and pepsi. I feel some not natural taste, some chemistry when I tried to drink coca cola and
pepsi. 3. Do you have any allergies to certain foods? Nope. I'm as strong as an ox. :) No allergies.
I do hate some kinds of food, but it's not allergy. I hate boiled onion and I hate milk skin.
Ugh..fie.. 4. What breakfast foods do you like? How do you like your eggs
prepared? medium, well, scrambled, etc... Very funny question, because in Russian language the slang word
"eggs" is the same like slang word "balls" in English.
When somebody ask you "how are your eggs" - it sounds like "how are your balls" in English.Well, how do I like to prepare my eggs? ha ha ha
Best way - raw eggs. I like to drink raw eggs. Also fried eggs maybe.
5. Are there any snack foods that you like? potato chips, popcorn, cereal, etc...
I like potato chips. Yep. We haven't popcorn here. I do not understand
about cereal. How it's possible to eat cereal? Like mouse? :) I like potato chips with taste of cheese or onion.
6. Do you like coffee a lot? And if so what flavor? Yes, I like coffee very much. My daily norm is about 20 cups.
We have very cold climate and we drink a lot of coffee as well as in Scandinavian countries.
What flavor? I drink chipped Brazilian coffee. 7. Do you like sandwiches? What kind? peanut butter and jelly, ham,
turkey, etc... We have no peanut butter, jelly and turkey here and never use
it in daily life. I never ate such things before.
We have a jam, not a jelly. And we eat meat of ducks and chickens.
I never heard about peanut butter before. I like cedar nuts very much.
I like sandwiches with caviar, red and black, and I like hot sandwiches
with cheese, ham and tomatoes. 8. Will you need any specific medicines? aspirin, etc...
No, as I wrote before, I'm as strong as ox...ok, maybe marijuana a little bit..ha ha ha. joke.
9. What shampoo and conditioner do you like? soap? Shampoo? Soap? We do not use these things here. ha ha ha my joke again.
I like shampoo and soap with vanilla smell. 10. Any particular toothpaste?
Nothing particular. Just a toothpaste. OK, it was very interesting questions. I'm hungry!
These questions provoke the appetite, you know. I should go to explore my fridge.
Kiss you, sweetheart!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 21
Mark, honey, I think my neighbors tried to speak with you :) Can you call me tomorrow evening, ok? I'll be at home all evening long.
Mark, you asked something about Western union bank. Agency sent you name of travel agent, because Western union banks do not
work with organizations and firms. WU banks accept wiring of money between private persons only.
They was forced to write name of travel agent and address of tourist
agency. If you want to send transfer to me directly you should use my
full name and address. I saw in my International passport, my full name in English spelling
will be Eugenia Minakova. Address is Oktyabrskaya street h.9 fl.12 town Nikolskoe, region of Leningrad, Russia
Agency told me you should write my name and address in your transfer
and I'll need to visit WU-bank with my International passport. Address of WU-bank branch? Agency gave the nearest bank address -
Russia, Leningrad region, Tosno, Lenin street, h. 52. "Rusobank".
OK, Mark, I kiss you again, honey! Zhenya
mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 22
Hello again Mark! How is your Saturday?
Today we are in preparations to elections of our our region
government, which will be at next weekend.
As the municipal personnel (our office is the little part of big army of
idlers in main office - administration of our town, you will be surprised
if I tell you that our tiny town have 450 persons of staff in administration
of town), so, as the municipal personnel we should organize and observe
this elections in polling stations of our polling district.
It means, I should prepare one polling station, near to my house, and to stand
guard over damned ballot-box during this weekend. To keep order, to guarantee
the purity of election process, to be catching imperialistic spies from America
and Europe and other bad capitalistic countries :), which will want to break fair
elections in our country, etc. In short - my weekend will be spoiled completely.
Right now I'm forced to print the propaganda leaflets for stupid constituency.
My boss is very angry with whole world today. His favorite football team -
losers. These milksops have lost the regular game yesterday (as usual.
With score 0:20 or 0:30, I do not remember), and boss wanted to do hara-kiri
for himself. ha ha ha :)
OK, Mark, I look forward to your answer and phone call!
Kiss
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 23
Hi, Mark! Thank for your phone call, sweetheart!
I waited for your call. Yes, it was wonderful to hear each
other once again. I send you my other pictures.
You should fix my red eyes, ok? :)
Mark, honey, I asked my vacation in my office already,
for our dates and my boss gave me vacation already. Whoopee!
Yes, I told my parents and they will not worry concerning my trip.
(They do not know about your huge arsenal) :)
Dear, I wish you a very good weekend and I wait for your promised
letter.
Kiss kiss kiss!
Zhenya
Letter 24
Hello, my dear Mark! Hello, honey pie! Thank you for your answer and my photos with normal eyes.
Yes, I understand, tomorrow you'll go to WU bank and I'll get your information at my evening because we have time difference.
Mark, my girlfriend tell me she will give me her digital camera, also other girlfriend promised me her video camera and I'll take
our pictures and video. Wow! We shall play movie-makers and we'll make our own movie about our date, ok? It's so funny!
I'm very glad that you are good cook. You'll teach me to cook without risk to poison guests. :)
I'll teach you to cook Russian dishes and you'll teach me to cook American dishes.
Mark, honey, you asked me how to wire payment better. Agency told me you can do it by two different variants.
First variant - you can use WU bank and send it directly to me and to
write my name and address. Also, in second variant, you can use WU-bank and to wire transfer to name of agent and address of tourist
agency. In these variants, when you write me special code of transfer,
I'll take my passport and visit branch of WU-bank with your information, alone or together with tourist agent. It'll depend who
is addressee of this transfer. In both of these variants agency can't
receive transfer without me, because they do not know special code of
your transfer.
WU bank is very convenient and safe way, because it's American bank system with a lot of branches in different countries of the World.
Mark, I'll be waiting for your phone call, honey. Right now is about 5 p.m. of my time, Saturday.
You asked me - basically I read your letters on my own, but I use dictionary and translating programme if I not understand some
difficult phrase. Kiss you!!!!
Zhenya
mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 25
Mark, honey, thank you for your call! Wow, it's was long conversation, I'm very glad.
I sit with my niece these dates, because my brother have business trip. My niece help me now to type this letter.
She is little little girlie, but she study English in school and I permit her to type in my letter some short words,
like "are", "is", "in", "yes", "no", and so on. Therefore you correspond with two girls at the same time. :)
I tell her we are writing letter for Barbie (she crazy with all these
Barbies). After that we should play Barbie and Ken. I should do it every
day of the week. Mamma mia! I feel myself like the star in any TV soap
opera, something like endless "Santa Barbara". In accordance with script
of niece - tonight Ken will offer his hand and heart at hundredth time.
And Barbie will promise to think up his offer. We never reached marriage,
because my niece have no idea what to do further, after marriage. Poor poor Ken. :)
Mark, you asked me to send you new picture, I found picture with my girlfriend. I haven't own digital camera, but I'll try to scan out
other photos from my album.
Yes, I understand, tomorrow I can visit agency and to ask them to visit bank together with me. Or the day after tomorrow.
Ok, I'll be waiting for your information about transfer and after that I'll go to agency.
Mark, honey, of course I dream about you and about our date. I like your pictures and letters very much.
We have 1,5 month till our real meeting - it's great! OK, I kiss you with my hot kiss and I look forward to your answer!
Letter 26
Hello, Mark! Thank you, honey, for your help with my trip! Kiss you!
Mark, I hurry to visit agency right now and to visit bank. I'll write you in a couple of hours and to inform you
about my visit to bank, ok? Kiss you again!
Zhenya
mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 27
Hello Mark! Hello, honey!
Mark, I called to agency today and we have agreement to go to bank tomorrow, because I found out WU-bank have working day till 16-00.
We had no time to visit it today. Therefore we'll go tomorrow. I'll write you as soon as we'll get transfer, ok?
I was forced to sit in office this evening. I've just come back from my office. I have a lot of stupid papers,
applications and formal requests from declarants, which I should examine very close and in detail, and...to throw out into my BIG
garbage basket. I have the VERY BIG garbage basket for any very
important papers at my workplace. As a rule, it is complaints of inhabitants of my city which have
a nice hobby - they devote all free time to a writing of infinite
complaints upon the neighbors which ostensibly oppress their rights to live, to breathe and so on.
And vice versa - neighbors responds with not less insulting replies.
We have the real professionals, which write such long and boring
complaints every day, with any causes and without causes. And your poor future wife is forced to read all this rubbish all days long,
and to answer it. I have promotion in my firm. I should interrogate people, who breaks our
construction rules, and to impose a fines or to send these felons into prison. Or to shoot them. Yep. :) ha ha ha.
Wish you a very good Monday! Kiss, kiss, kiss!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 28
Hello Mark!
Honey, I just came back home from city. Everything is OK! I got your transfer without problems and agency will
collect all needed papers till next Wednesday (they will need about one week to collect all needed papers fro American
embassy). Mark, we'll meet soon! Mark, I should eat a little bit and I'll write you new letter in a
couple of hours and to ask you about needed papers which you wrote me
about, for my fiancee visa. I hurry to send you this good news and my kiss!
Zhenya
mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 29
Hello again Mark! Hello, honey! Thank you so much for your phone call!
Mark, dear, I tried to find my pictures to send you. I rummaged the computer from top to bottom and I found
one picture, which was never sent before. I will search for new photos tomorrow also.
Mark, how is your president election? Who is winning? We have special rule in Russia - any
agitation during a day of election is forbidden. Therefore I'm afraid to write you about my point of view because it
can have an influence upon your own opinion, and you can make wrong choice. :)
I like both of them. And Bush and Kerry. I do not know why but I like Bush more. He is so simple-hearted and own.
Russian guy practically. VOTE FOR BUSH!..VOTE FOR BUSH!.. VOTE FOR BUSH! ha ha ha :)
Mark, if you do not want no Bush neither Kerry - you can vote for me!
Kiss you! Sweet dreams!
Zhenya
Letter 30
Hello Mark! Mark, I write this letter as soon as I came to my working place in
office. Sorry, my totally empty head forgot to send you my yesterday
message. I wrote letter, but my boss asked me to find some papers and
I ran myself ragged, and finally I forgot to send my letter and I was
very surprised when you called me last night and told me you haven't
letter. Honey, everything is all right, agency collect all needed paper to
send it to embassy to send it with papers of other tourists next week.
Today is the day of monthly salary in my firm! Halleluiah! In Russia we use rubles (1 rouble - 100 kopeks).
In daily life we name our rubles - "wooden". I do not know why. Also, we use a couple of other slang words when we talk about money.
For example - money - "grannies", "cabbage". I'll get 3500 rubles today (my month income). Not bad, right? THREE thousands
500 hundreds!!!! Wow, very big money....in rubles. But if to count on dollars - about 120 bucks. :(
Mark, I wanted to ask - why dollars names "dollars" and "bucks"? "Dollars" because of word "doll", right?
Something like "dolls"? Because of mugs of presidents on these papers?
You know, we names "dollars" in our slang as "greenness". Because of color of course. I heard America is changing color of bucks
now. They try to do their money more funny and colorful. I saw pink "twenty dollars" already. OK I go to get my "wooden". :)
Can you write me about your daily expenses? Can you recall all your expenses, in trivial details, of any usual day?
I do not know - cup of coffee, newspaper, penalty of wrong parking, marijuana and so on. Usual day in your life.
Well, Mark, your beloved should go to work a little bit. My boss have the vile mood today, as always.
I think about the buying of rat poison, to entertain my boss at tasty
and flavored coffee someday. Kiss you! Write me soon!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 31
Hello, Mark! How is your day? I thought about questions, relative to wedding customs in
our countries, what's common and what's different. 1. Concerning first stage. I saw in movies that guy should
buy the ring with diamond and to open black box with ring in solemn conditions. If I understand correctly this ring
is not the wedding ring. It's a pity but we haven't such ritual in Russia.
Because we haven't engagement with rings. We have the wedding rings only. When man marry woman in church,
they exchange the wedding rings. Our wedding ring looks like ring from movie "Lord of the rings".
It should be ordinary golden ring without any adornment. Just the simple golden ring. I was surprised when I found out that
people abroad put the wedding ring onto ring finger of left hand. If you will try to do it in Russia, your wife will kill you right near altar. :)
In Russia, hitched people should have the wedding ring on the right hand.
If person in divorce, he change the hand, and continue to wear the ring on
the ring finger of the left hand. Thus, man or woman show his marriage status.
2. The wedding traditional ceremony. A lot of ways. From "...ok, let's do it quickly. When I should put
my signature? Here?..ok, well, see you tonight...",
up to the long and solemn ceremony in church and celebration during a couple of days with all relatives, way back to the seventh generation,
and with all friends, all neighbors and just the fortuitous passer-bys. :)
I prefer the golden mean. Wedding should be well memorized, but at the same time, there are no needs to waste all resources and
money during this ceremony. Some people prefer municipal marriage, some people prefer the wedding in church.
I prefer the wedding in church. The God and my saints should be present on my wedding too.
I do not believe in marriage in rough-and-ready fashion, in haste.
It would be an important milestone in the life. 3. Marriage contract. I have no idea what that hellish thing means at all.
If I understood correctly, man and woman discuss some most important
moments for case of possible divorce and fix their agreement in this contract.
I'm not against of the fair contract if it's equitable to the interest
of both parties. But I have a great lot of questions anyway, because we do not use marriage
contracts in Russia and I have very vague knowledge in this question.
Kiss you!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 32
Hi, Mark! Thanks for your letters! Mark, your post-card with funny monkey was great! Thank you.
Mark, I have some little problems with phone line. It will be fixed next days, therefore I write you so late tonight.
Nobody can reach me by phone today and yesterday. I do not know why and I called to special service.
We have holidays tomorrow. The Day of Great October Socialist Revolution. Amen.
All this nightmare with communism and socialism in past, but we continue to celebrate any communist holidays.
Because the main thing - to take a good rest, the reason is not so important. Right?
Today we are in preparations to holiday. As the municipal personnel (our office is the little part of big army of
idlers in main office - administration of our town, you will be surprised
if I tell you that our tiny town have 450 persons of staff in administration
of town), so, as the municipal personnel we should organize this holiday.
In short - my weekend will be spoiled completely. Right now I'm forced to print the posters.
My boss is very angry with whole world today. His favorite football team -
losers. These milksops have lost the regular game yesterday (as usual.
With score 0:20 or 0:30, I do not remember), and boss wanted to do hara-kiri
for himself. ha ha ha :) OK, Mark, I look forward to your answer! Kiss you with my hot kiss!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 33
Good evening, Mark! Thank you for your letters! How is your weekend?
I hope you have a very good relaxation. I just came back home from St-Petersburg. I visited my uncle, which
live in St-Petersburg. I helped him to repair his room, because he asked to help him.
You know my life credo already - if I should do something important, but if I have a little chance to put off till
tomorrow what I can do today - I'll put it off without doubts :) I do not know why I decided to help to start him the room renewal exactly
this weekend, but miracle occurred.
I'm proud because I started. I'm in panic, because I start to realize that this process
of full repair works will demand a lot of time. More than 30 minutes, as I thought a couple of days ago. Now I understand I'll
be bearing this cross during a couple of days, and maybe weeks. I think my thoughtless decision to launch of a campaign
to restore his room was the consequence of high temperature yesterday.
Now I'm much better. But deed is done. Ok, this is a list of my weekend's progress:
1. I have washed up a ceiling and have prepared it for painting. I painted a ceiling snow-white color.
I was standing on a step-ladder all the day long, throwing back my head and I my neck will be crooked till my dying day I'm afraid.
2. Also, I have torn off all old wall-paper from walls and the next
weekend I shall try to paste new wall-paper. I have bought new wall-paper recently. Such light-beige, with
squares and any intricate geometrical figures.
Something like the period of a cubism of Picasso. Ooh! I tired like a dog. You see - I'm very hard-working Russian
Cinderella and exemplary future wife.
Mark, first of all - you wrote me you tried to send messages to travel
agency, but they have holidays as well as all other organizations because this holidays in Russia. Dear, I think they sent my papers to
embassy already. I'll check it the day after tomorrow (tomorrow we have the day off also).
OK, Mark, honey, kiss you! See you later, alligator! :) I look forward to your answer!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 34
Hello, Mark! Thank you for your answer with wonderful picture! Mark, because of this problems with my telephone line I'm forced to wait
for moment when I'll have a chance to send you my message during the
day. I try to send it every 10 minutes, therefore do not worry it my
letter come too late, ok? I like your last picture very much! Listen, Mark, concerning travel agency again. I'll go tomorrow to
travel agency and to check our progress with my papers for embassy. Do not worry, because I got your help and I paid my tourist trip, and
I think because of it, agency think that I'm customer of my trip, therefore they forgot to send you information, because they not got
your payment. I got your payment and I pay my trip, therefore they work with me. Do you understand my explanations?
I'll visit them tomorrow. Wow! We'll meet in one month! I wanted to go to sleep, but I have one very interesting movie
"Sleeping dictionary", I wanted to watch it a little bit, but it was so interesting and I decided to watch it till the end.
This movie is about one guy from England and one girl from Borneo. 1937. Before the WW2. He went to Borneo as the colonial government
employee. Yeah, man, you can imagine these lessons. ha ha ha No, everything is very decently and romantic.
But I'm watching this movie during 80-90 minutes already, and
the end is just around the corner, but that guy know no local words,
even shortest "hi". But they felt in love already, certainly. If I understand correctly - moral of this movie is "if you want
to study language, never try to do it this beautiful teacher. Do it with ugly old fartface" ha ha ha
OK, Mark, honey, kiss you again and again.
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 35
Good evening, my dear Mark! I've just come back home, turned on my computer and got your lovely letter.
Mark, I have possibility to write my letters from home now, therefore I can't answer your letters during my working day.
Do not worry when you haven't my answer during my working day, ok? Mark, give me a pair of hours, I should find something eatable
in my fridge, to cook something, and I'll answer your letter in a pair of hours, ok?
Kiss you!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 36
Hi, Mark!
It's me again. Everything is OK. I found a couple of eggs and the little piece of boiled sausage
in the heart of fridge, therefore tonight I'll eat the ham and eggs.
Mark, my phone line have some problems and I wait for repair service. I hope my line will be fixed till the end of week.
I was in agency today, we wait for papers about my job and my month income, because embassy will demand these papers. They will send my
papers at Thursday morning to embassy. Mark, do not worry, agency is
very honest and everybody know each other in my little town, they have
no chance to cheat me. Mark, I bought a couple of new Hollywood comedy-movies without
translation, and I tried to see it yesterday and I'll continue to do it tonight. I sit like the stupid cow and try to recognize
any words and understand the subject of movies. It's unbelievably. I hear just mumbling, bleating and croaking and nothing more. :)
No, I'm able to recognize some very usual and bright words in dialogs of actors. But I think, my idea to try to get used to
language through movies was not good. I think actors in movies
use the slang constantly. Also they jabber all these words very quickly, and i have no possibility to tell them -
"STOP!!! SHUT UP!!!....slowly please...a..a..what do you say?" :) ha ha ha
I'm able to recognize the next words - "yes", "no", "hello", "hi", "bye-bye" and "shit". That's all, folks. :)
Therefore, we'll be forced to use this "wide lexicon" during our meeting.
But I think it would be quite enough for good romantic date. I have one very good idea to speak by fingers. If everything is OK,
if we agree with each other and if we are glad with each other - we'll show our thumbs. But if something is wrong, if we not agree -
we'll show our middle fingers. :) Good idea! OK, Mark, I kiss you, and I look forward to your letter and return!
Kiss kiss kiss
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 37
Mark, dear, it's me!
I'm really sorry for my silence during these two days but it was not my guilt.
The day after tomorrow our post-office, which connect us to Internet,
started some repair prophylactic works, and we had local phone connection
during these days. This damned post-office recommenced operation with
long-distance connection this evening only. I hope this my message
will be delivered to you, and I'll look forward to your answer. Mark, write me please as soon as possible, as soon as you'll
get my message, ok? Because I do not know, do my connection work correctly or not.
OK, Mark, honey, I look forward to your quick answer! Kiss!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 38
Hello, my honey pie.
Todays is the doubly happy day, because today is the last day a working week also because my boss have his business trip
to Moscow and we enjoy felicity in our deserted firm :) You know, I bought two newest horror-movies today.
Therefore I'll try to scare myself well and truly tonight. Night is the best time to watch such kind of movies.
Therefore if you'll hear some strange howls and screams tonight - do not worry, it's your future terror-stricken wife
is yelling in Russia. :) Let's write each other about our uncontrollable, congenital fears.
I think it would be interesting. So, my irrational fear: 1. I am afraid of great height. Certainly it's not the pathological fear
when the person cannot scramble even upon a stool for example,
but if I shall stand at brink and to look downwards from the big height,
I shall feel myself comfortless. 2. I am afraid to go for a drive on carousels, to go boating, etc.
Not because I am afraid of ships or merry-go-rounds, but because
I have very feeble cerebellum. I'll sick of sea-sickness in one second.
I do not know why, but I feel myself wonderfully in cars and airplanes.
But any swings, merry-go-rounds and long boat-trips - not for me. If I feel sea-sickness - I become green and grow gray and I want just
to lie down and to die quietly. :) 3. I'm afraid of unknown dogs (big dogs). You know, I'm absolutely
indifferent to any snakes, spiders, bats and so on. I can take any
creature into my hands, no problems. But if I walk on the street and I meet a big homeless dog, I have
the big vague wish to stop or to run at top speed in opposite direction.
Of course it does not mean I do not like dogs. I like dogs very much.
But I write your about unaccountable fears. 4. I'm afraid of dentists. Mamma mia! I'm afraid of these sons of a bitch
with dental drilling machines more than everything what I wrote you
above about. I have perfect teeth, but when I should go to visit dentist
it's should be a very good reason, damn it. When I hear this strident and humming noise of dental drilling machine
I want to find myself one million miles away. 5. I have the wild uncontrollable fear of sex...ha ha ha ha :) Joke.
Ok, you know, to tell the truth that's all. I think I'm very brave girl.
I'm completely indifferent to a lot of usual other persons's fears. In most cases I'm fatalist and I have no fears and fright in cases
when other people will try to protect themselves or will tremble like
an aspen leaf.
It would be very interesting to hear about your uncontrolled wild wild fears.
I should know about your fears because it better way to rule future husband.
Mark, honey, can I ask you? Listen, agency have some unfavourable news. American embassy toughened rules of visiting and they demand some new
papers, as papers about month income which should be not less than 400$. I have 120$ only. Agency called to embassy and answering
machine said that any digression from rules of demanding of embassy will mean 100% refusal.
Mark, honey, I have other offer of agency with meeting in other countries which will have no problems at all. Can we discuss it?
Well, one million of kisses from me, honey!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
Letter 39
Hello, my honeycakes!
Mark, honey, thank you for your phone calls!!! Kiss you!!! Mark, I completely understood your offer. I'll go to WU-bank at
Monday. Agency collected my papers, but I did prepayment - 150$ only.
All other money on my hand, not in agency. But I want to ask before - Mark, can we solve the question of
our meeting for some place outside Russia? I want to explain why - every year I have my annual vacation (about
30 days). I spent my annual vacation this summer already. Now I wanted to ask off-hour vacation, and I should have
good reason for my boss to ask such off-hour vacation. I counted to show my tourist papers and to tell my boss that I'll lose my tourist
trip. In such extremal cases boss give us off-hour vacation. Mark, honey, can we solve this situation somehow but with my tourist
papers? St-Petersburg is in 5 hours by train from my town, and I'll need vacation to come to St-Petersburg, but agency haven't offers for
Russian cities of course. Mark, I've just come back home from hen-party.
My girlfriends have dragged me out today from my cozy home, notwithstanding my strong resistance, because I "live abroad
with my lovely husband already in my dreams" and company of stupid chicks of my little town is not interesting for me. :)
I am fed up with their piss elegant manners. Well, I was forced to have a tedious time during this evening
in cosy little gathering of my girlfriends. If you think that such parties are very interesting and girls
are talking about sex, guys and any fascinating secrets and they do any amazing things, which would be never done in company with
men - you are completely wrong. Such party is more boring than policy election meeting.
It looks like competition who'll tell more boring news and who tell more stupid joke.
Also, such hen-party looks like beauty contest between gals. We should demonstrate our new clothes and make-up for each other.
Therefore everyone come, having dressed up as a dummy in a show-window
and having made up as the huronian in the war. :) OK, I kiss you! Have a very nice weekend! I look forward to your
letter!
Zhenya mailto:lipsticktrace@mail.ru
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