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back to Nevelsk. Certainly I needed to review the verbs
Leave (Payehgat) and Arrive (Priyehgat) as I got quite
confused. After 8 pm when they still showed no sign of
leaving. Kapitan Dima and Boatsman Yuri were also having
great fun with their Wodka’s and we decided to join them
drinking the rest of it, just to make sure we would not end up
in Japan! Dima and Yuri knew 3 words of English each, but
that became 6 each because of the wodka. And with the few
Russian words that we knew we had a great conversation.
We became friends for life.
Finally around 10 pm Mishja called everyone on
board: Payehghali, bistrabistra. Suddenly he was in a hurry.
Everyone dropped sort of dead in the cabin, hoping God
would send a guardian angel to guide Kapitan Dima safely
back to shore. We reached Nevelsk port by midnight without
problems and Mishja drove us home safely where we arrived
at 2 am Monday morning. Too bad for my husband, who’s
alarm went off only 4 hours later.

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