September 22th | 22 сентября

2.56 p.m. - Hostel

• Waking up. Still time zone lagged.

3.54 p.m. - =

• Going to get groceries.
• I still know nobody here.
• Telegram posts still aren't up to date yet.

4.30 p.m. - Н.Н. Муравьёв-Амурский, Памятник park

• Sitting in park next to the construction site. Calling relatives. Solving little issues in Paris. Making a deal with Kirill for a bank transfer: I'll send him euros from my French bank account to his, and he'll send me rubles from his Russian one to mine.
• From the parc, I do not see many movements on the construction site. I still have to confirm that I am looking at the right one, in witch Poma is supposed to be involved.

5.47 p.m. - Going Ouest of last position

• I come across fifty fifty-years-olds, dancing in red sportswear. They are ninety-nine pour cent women. The leader is a Man. It's a repetition, apparently. I would say they are visible from the other side of the Amour. Is it a CCCP revival thing? What are they doing? Why do they dance to a music about Blagovechtchensk?

• I think the commander notices me and say a funny word about me, on his microphone. He said "Parigje". A general laugh comes from the fifty-years-old dancing crowd, they turn around, give me a look. One waves at me. I'm holding my bloc-note and writing. It's amusing. Maybe if I join dancing, I could get in touch with more than fifty people at a time. But behind the joke, the commander might be suspicious about something.
• I get into a restaurant. I try to catch the attention of the waiter or the bartender. But I just don't understand what to do. Order at the bar? Sit and wait? Nobody seems to care about me, and I can't catch a gaze. I leave, feeling like I failed at something.
• Buying food for the evening. Pelmenis, and other treats.

8 p.m. - Back in the Hostel

• Cooking in the kitchen. Meeting Luda. She works here. We talk using Yandex, mainly.
• I meet her friend that also works here.
• I write at the same time.
• Later, a man comes and we talk a bit. He is a Karate trainer's trainer. I quickly tell him about me and what I do here.
• I'm playing music. The kitchen is a good spot to meet people. Is renting an apartment all for myself such a good idea? Here, I meet people. But they are only here for a few days. Is there some kind of community living here?
• Talking with the girls, I discover Russian humorists. We also talk about the construction site that is slow because of lack of money (as Luda says).

Midnite - Hostel kitchen

• Still at the table. Shifts changed. So I meet another employee from the hostel. We talk for some time. Mostly about my project and its methodology. I talk about this channel. And about bars and clubs.