Second first impressions.

I am back from Russia. I don't come there often, so each time I notice a visual difference.
For example, advertisements change a lot between my visits. 2 years ago, there were many
grafitti tags "dial 8-9xxxx to buy cheap viagra/cialis". Now the very first ad I've seen upon
arriving to Sheremetievo airport was "buy pills ZZZ, to make your male orgasm brighter and
more colorful.". I hope those in double blind controlled clinical trials for this substance had some fun.
And I wonder how they measured. Oh, I guess there was no clinical trials.. The pills are made in Nizhny Novgorod,
it was written in the ad btw. Also this time I seen more tags like "dial 8-9xxxx to buy salt/pepper/nutmeg" (for those who don't know, they don't mean salt/pepper). Sad.

Es ist nicht lustig!

Jacob is now 3 years and one month old. Since 2 and a half, one of his favorite phrases is "Это не смешно" - he uses it very often to describe any situation he does not like. Yulia and me were never using this phrase, so I was always wondering where he picked it, considering that he is exposed to a very limited set of Russian speakers.

Today I got it - it is simply his translation of "Es ist nicht lustig", a phrase that he often hears in a kindergarten.