4 Vodka and an Ukrainian lunch

Yesterday we went in the break with Sergey and some oth

er guys from the agency to an Ukrainian restaurant. The food was great! We drank 4 Ukrainian Vodka and after that we went back and had a review at our CD - it went pretty good ;) 

Russian just drink with a toast. If you don't toast before drinking you are an alcoholic - if you toast every time you can drink as much as you can. After a Vodka they are used to eat something like gherkins or bread - or they just take a smell at a bread.

That's not a menu, now THIS is a menu!

From left to right: Roman, Sascha, Sergey

Our flat

Some of you ask me how our flat looks like, so here it is,

thats what you get for 1500$ a month in Moscow ;)

Safety first 4 locks and 2 doors

Livingroom/ Ratkos room

Our "loggia"

Our bathroom (on the right side is a shower)

The kitchen, the stove switches of every 20-200 seconds...

The view out of the kitchen window

My room, I have no door, but we organized a curtain now

Awesome-strange-russian-gay-party

From left to right: Roman and Andre  

Last friday we went out... After we finished our weekly drinking ritual in the agency we went to a birthdayparty of Andre a former designer of Saatchi . About 10 people from the agency drove to the party. We took some unofficial caps, which basically works like tramping with paying a little amount of money. We can suggest to not do that without any russian speaking guys on your site. Our cab driver didn't really now where to go but fortunately Roman knew it so we had no problems. The party was somewhere far away from the agency in an industrial area in a private club. As we where in the club we got to know the motto of the birthdayparty it was "kitten party" and from this it follows that a lot of basically gay people wore cat masks. They played house music and we got all drinks like wodka redbull for free - nice :) . Later some queer guys in higheels sang a song with a lot of "gays" in the lyrics for the birthday boy and around 4 o clock we "tramped" with Roman back home. Here are some nice pics which a Saatchi guy shot:

http://cocha-bepeck.com/kittens-pussies/

and some of mine which i just shot with my mobile phone, sorry for the poor quality ;)

Before we left i took a look behind a curtain and this is what I saw O.o made that place even more strange...

getting a new "cab" home

Writing for another Blog first

Ok, I haven't written much here but today I wrote a small text about our internship at Saatchi and Saatchi for another Blog: http://aweekincreativity.blogspot.com it's the blog of Robin Stam a former MASE Student who works now at Duval Guillaume in Belgium 

Ratko & Thomas in Moscow

>Interning at Saatchi & Saatchi

Almost two weeks are already gone, time is running and life is fast here. Sometimes you think death is even faster especially when you arrive at the airport and jump in a cab to drive to the flat. 120 km/h in the city is not unusual and when there is a traffic jam an 8 lane street suddenly turns into a 12 lane street. Everyone is driving like crazy maybe that’s because you can buy your drivers license here on the black market. We never have seen that much expensive cars like Maybach’s, S-classes, Hummer’s and Porsche on one place. They are parking everywhere especially on crosswalks or sidewalks in front of restaurants. Moscow is a pretty expensive city which has its own charm.. Our flat is about 35 square meters and costs about $1500 a month. The good thing is Saatchi pays for it. Food in general is expensive too, fortunately Mc Donald’s is cheaper than in Germany! The people here on the street aren’t smiling much and look cold for us, but if you get to know some you will see that the Russians are normally friendly and cooperative. That is what we experienced from the people here at Saatchi. Everyone here speaks English so we have not that language problem like on the streets or in shops. As for now we are working on four different Briefs and have enough to do. Yesterday everyone sang, “Enjoy the Silence” from Depeche Mode for an online video and we got a task to run zigzag over the red square with a camera. Well now start wondering if that is creative or a typical job for interns? We don’t know either.. The agency is pretty small it just has 68 employees overall 3-4 creative teams and space for 60 people. Every Friday evening there are free drinks and snacks at Saatchi so we have to leave now and catch a drink!

p.s. When you see horses riding Friday night on the walkways in Moscow it doesn’t necessary has to mean that you drank or smoke too much.

Yeah... now me too...

Never thought that I would create an own blog, but the quateraway in Moscow finally gave me a reason to publish another blog in the endless internet!