free buses!!!!

When I studied in Moscow in 1992, the cheapest and easiest way to travel around town was the ‘Edini Billet’ or Unified Ticket.  It was something that a person could use to travel on all modes of transportation from Metro, to bus, to tramway, to trolleybus—and it was not expensive.  I thought it was still that way so a couple days after I arrived, I bought a Edini for October.
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TУАЛЕТ

When I first arrived in New Zealand in 1989, I noticed that everyone said Loo when they were talking about the place I called the ‘bathroom.’  I wrote home that I didn’t know how to spell it, so I chose Lou because I thought it was simply a quick and easy man’s name—similar to how Americans used the word john.  It wasn't for several years until I saw ‘loo’ in print somewhere.
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