Day 70 of 150

Day 70: Home After Eight Months at Sea

In Saint Petersburg, two friends plan a welcome for a third friend who is coming home after eight months as a cook on a research ship.

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Dialogue

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  1. A

    Гоша в субботу возвращается, восемь месяцев на судне отработал. Надо закатить ему шикарную встречу.

    Gosha's coming back on Saturday, after eight months' work on a ship. We need to throw him a lavish welcome.

  2. B

    Давай снимем бар и позовём человек тридцать: он заходит, а тут все наши!

    Let's rent a bar and invite thirty people or so: he walks in, and the whole gang's there!

  3. A

    Он восемь месяцев кормил сорок ртов на камбузе: людьми он наверняка сыт по горло.

    He's spent eight months feeding forty mouths in a ship's galley: he's surely had it up to here with people.

  4. B

    Тогда ресторан, только мы втроём: пусть хоть раз не он кашеварит, а ему подают.

    A restaurant, then, just the three of us: for once he won't be the one at the stove, he'll be the one being served.

  5. A

    Или махнём сразу в Карелию? Я бы на его месте соскучился по лесу.

    Or we could whisk him straight off to Karelia? In his place I'd be missing the forest.

  6. B

    Восемь месяцев болтался на волнах, и опять в дорогу? Он, скорее всего, мечтает о своём диване и тишине.

    Eight months tossing about on the waves, and off on the road again? Most likely he's dreaming of his own sofa and some peace and quiet.

  7. A

    Слушай, он же мне писал: первым делом парилка, а потом неделю отсыпаться.

    Listen, he wrote to me: first thing, the steam room, and then a week of catching up on sleep.

  8. B

    Вот и сюрприз готов. Топим у меня на даче баню, а шумную встречу отложим до следующего рейса.

    There's our surprise, then. We fire up the banya at my dacha, and save the noisy welcome for his next voyage.

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