FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

Here in Canada it is hard to find a true blue, 'undiluted' Canadian.
Unsurprisingly, many of our new friends are a mixture of something or from a different country altogether.

Dimitri is one of them. If you guessed he is Russian you guessed right!
He is a Russian unlike any Russian you have ever met.
He doesn't like shoes!
The first time he came to our house he showed up barefooted- which is ok-ish considering it was summer and Canada is a free country, you can wear what you want (it is socially acceptable to leave your house in your pyjamas and house slippers to go and visit the mall. However, when Christmas time comes around you are not allowed to call it "Merry Christmas", you need to call it "Happy Holidays").

 When he visited us the other day he was still barefoot - which, in my opinion is not ok-ish  'cause it is 2 degrees outside . But then, who am I?  Only a mother who wants to keep her floor clean...

Like all good Russian men he attended ballet academy and knows how to make even a piano with stuck keys sound like "The piano Man'.  Unlike Russian men, he doesn't drink Vodka;  he doesn't drink at all come to think of it.

When he talks in his native tongue I am torn between classifying him as a  porn star or mobster - (as I have no real-life experience with either one, I chose the porn category!)

Ladies, if he sounds too good to be true I have to disappoint you:
No, I won't give you his number, he is a happily married man to beautiful Estonian Beauty Katja and father of two cheeky boys.
Now, the reason I am telling you all this is, Dimitri is a very well read, smart man, he carries his iPad with him like other man would carry their man-bag, mobile phone or wallet.

Whatever you want to know, whenever there is an argument to settle, Dimitri will clear it up with one quick search on Google!

An afternoon with Dimitri can make you feel like the biggest looser ('cause there is so much shit going on in the world you are oblivious about) or you are stimulated  just listening to him.

Whatever he is telling you he is proving with  data from his iPad.
If you always wanted to know what a Russian, A German, An American and Estonian have in common and talk about?
The answers are nothing and lots.

After our latest  afternoon spent together I got interesting insights:

 The German army killed more than 20 million Russians during WW II
(check this link)

If  I am a witty, sophisticated money trader or investor I should invest in Bitcoin (if you never heard of it, check this out)

If we have any common sense in our body left and care for the future of our children we should pack our bags and get out of Vancouver as fast as possible. The nuclear radioactive waste from Japan is making its way to the West Coast of Canada and the USA.

Here is one scary article for you.
And here is one more.

From next year onwards we can't eat fish anymore (more and more fish are dying or become contaminated from the nuclear waste).

Mushrooms can save the world!
C'mon, you heard me right, mushrooms is the word. If you have some time, this Ted Talk will give you an insight into the unknown, magic components of these little buggers!

Here is the TED TALK by Paul Stamets

Dimitri gives me something to ponder about, every time!
  I will greatly miss him when he is gone.
As a good Russian he lives by his own gospel; the rain and the imminent nuclear threat has gotten to him- he is moving his family back to Russia- where he will spread love and information..
One extraordinary man!