Our Neighborhood Video Store

Arun and I discovered a little neighborhood video store. It's cheap, it's close.... and Arun says it smells vaguely of BO. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to concur. We both think it emanates from the video-store clerk. He's incredibly nice and helpful and even speaks English quite well. We're just not sure how he manages to work up such a sweat playing video games in the store all day!

It's been Arun's misfortune that they stock Indian movies and songs- but they're all dubbed into Russian.

Nonetheless, we have been able to catch up on all kinds of old and semi-old Hollywood releases- Enigma, Burn After Reading.... and a bunch of crappy Martin Lawrence movies that Arun watched by himself.

It only costs us 10 hr... so for about a buck-fifty, we get to rent the movie for up to a month. Pretty good deal! So it's about 2-3 times a week that Arun and I head over to the "BO Store" and scan all the movies for one that says 'Angliski' on the back and then pray that there is indeed an English option when we get back home (we're batting about a .500 on this). You would think it would be easier to add in Russian subtitles to these movies- but no, they dub over each and every one of them! Oh well!

Another part of life in Odessa!