I managed to cross the "crazy American" cultural barrier today for both Ukrainians and Americans. The scene:
I was walking home from school and saw many branches lined along the side of my street. I am low on kindling for my petchka, so I asked the babushka (grandma) who was picking from among them if I could take some. She said sure, and so I pulled together several large branches and started to drag them away.
The crazy:
To you Americans, picture me in my teaching clothes, with my school books still under my arm, dragging three large branches up the street for use in my coal-burning stove. Now picture the babushka, also lugging branches, yelling after me, "Put on a hat!" in Russian.
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