A helping hand

As Moscow is a pretty friendly place people often "help" each other on and off the metro. By help I mean compact people into the metro or expend them out like a balloon releasing air. So the other day I did my duty and "helped" a young man onto the train (it wasn't completely my idea to help him as someone was helping me as well). Upon my helping I was met with protest which if I understood correctly was something like "what's with you" and a dirty look. He continued to stare at me and push around a little in protest but it was pretty easy to ignore him as I found the whole thing a little comical besides not really having anything to say to him as I'm still not too quick on my Russian feet.

In other news I celebrated the feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at his church in Pizhakh where there is a Myrrh streaming icon of Tsar martyr Nicholas which you can read about here.