You want to know what I miss the most about Russia? I miss going fishing. In Russia, my parents had a little cottage house. It’s not in Moscow, it’s a suburb of Moscow, kind of close to the river. And me and my friends we usually used to go fishing all the time. We would get a floating boat and go in the forest next to the river for a couple of days, and then fishing and then fire and cooking barbecue, the same fish that we caught like we would cook it. So I miss that. And saunas, we have these little houses, that you come and you spank yourself with birch tree bushes. They thrash. They have smell of birch tree, and it’s really good for your skin and you get hot. And you hit yourself and oh my god it’s so good for you! And then you jump in the snow. It’s called banya.

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