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Surprise!
Victor K., the lead interpreter, told me that management was arranging for a van to go to town and visit the sights - which pretty much uniformly consist of statues, busts, and other commemorative hardware - and that since there wasn't much going on today (the Russians are putting a spit shine, so to speak, on the ascent unit), it was okay with him if I went along to interpret. So I went.
A pretty ambitious itinerary had been put together, of some 17 stops. Unfortunately, some unexpected work issues kept us from leaving at the appointed hour, and it later turned out not to be possible to delay our return from town, so a number of items were dropped from the list.
After the tour and a late lunch, we returned home and I took a nap. I had a very light dinner (to offset our rather heavy lunch) and then went with some of the Russian office staff and the campaign's doctor to the Proton Club to watch some movies in the club's auditorium. The main feature, after a couple of episodes of a television comedy series titled Наша RUSSIA, was Crank (dubbed in Russian), which fell short, in my opinion, of even a watch-once movie, though I did stay to the end.
Afterwards, most of us retired to the Fili dining room, which serves drinks until about midnight, and three of us sat around, drinking tea - I swear, I've probably had more tea in the past couple of weeks than during all of the first part of the year (and that's saying something!) - and talking about our favorite movies.
So, it's late, and I think the nap earlier only relieved the fatigue of the trip to town. I'm the afternoon interpreter tomorrow, and have been assigned to support the transfer of the ascent unit over to the hall in which the launch vehicle sits ready for integration. We have four days before the rocket goes out for upper stage propellant loading, and ten days and some six hours before launch.
Cheers...
A pretty ambitious itinerary had been put together, of some 17 stops. Unfortunately, some unexpected work issues kept us from leaving at the appointed hour, and it later turned out not to be possible to delay our return from town, so a number of items were dropped from the list.
After the tour and a late lunch, we returned home and I took a nap. I had a very light dinner (to offset our rather heavy lunch) and then went with some of the Russian office staff and the campaign's doctor to the Proton Club to watch some movies in the club's auditorium. The main feature, after a couple of episodes of a television comedy series titled Наша RUSSIA, was Crank (dubbed in Russian), which fell short, in my opinion, of even a watch-once movie, though I did stay to the end.
Afterwards, most of us retired to the Fili dining room, which serves drinks until about midnight, and three of us sat around, drinking tea - I swear, I've probably had more tea in the past couple of weeks than during all of the first part of the year (and that's saying something!) - and talking about our favorite movies.
So, it's late, and I think the nap earlier only relieved the fatigue of the trip to town. I'm the afternoon interpreter tomorrow, and have been assigned to support the transfer of the ascent unit over to the hall in which the launch vehicle sits ready for integration. We have four days before the rocket goes out for upper stage propellant loading, and ten days and some six hours before launch.
Cheers...