Chris and Lydia's Top Ten Remedies for Train Lag ®:
1. Drink Tea.
2. Refill your tea and add dried cranberries this time
(really Russian, and makes up for re-using the tea bag).
3. Read Anna Karenina (including all the footnotes) out loud
while the other person drinks tea - cranberries optional this time.
4. Alphabetize and categorize bucket list trips that do not
include staring out the window at 5 more hours of China's rustbelt in the dark.
5. Make a depressing documentary-style video of our boredom.
6. Laugh at all the videos of us getting psyched for the
trip.
7. Try to rationalize why a Fulbright Scholar would want to
live here. Actually, why anyone would want to live here.
8. Break in Chris's brand new hiking boots by wearing them
on the way to the trash bin, samovar and back. Eat lots of things in wrappers,
to maximize number of trash runs.
9. Write a text message to Pappap, agreeing with him that
this trip is designed for one-way prisoners on their way to internment camps.
Realize we do not have cell phone network here, so save it in drafts folder.
10. Make a list of remedies for Train Lag ®
Looking forward to seeing an edited collection of videos at point 5 and 6!
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