Happy oh-dark-thirty to me...

[alexpgp]

Banquets can vary in very many "quality" factors - food, music, etc. - but interpreters have one criterion that no other attendees pay attention to: the number of toasts that must be interpreted. Some banquets will involve no toasts at all (a rarity); others will find every second person wanting to offer up some words (also rare).

Last night's banquet fell somewhere in the middle, with about a half dozen toasts (well, about five toasts and a toast that ended up trying to be a keynote speech, but I digress...). I wasn't feeling in tip-top shape, but managed to do my part, and even had some fun trying to render flowery Russian into flowery English (when was the last time you heard the word "firmament" come out of someone's mouth?).

I am still mostly unpacked, so I better get a move on, because the bus picks us up in just over an hour. I expect my next post to be made from Moscow.

Cheers...

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[skipperja.livejournal.com]

I hope your travel was uneventful.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I've made it to Moscow with no trouble.

Cheers...