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Yuri Stoupak, 17nov97 Russian text follows (quoted; 
 used alphabet is :  A B V G D E YO ZH Z I I K L 
   M N O P R S T U F H C CH SH SHCH ' Y ' E YU YA )
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"U menya byl v pyatnicu prazdnik i yubilei v " weekend.

"Prazdnikom byla sdacha " written DMV exam " v 
mestnom GAI" - DMV = Department of Motor Vehicles. 

"Tut vce ulicy BEZLYUDNYE, peshehodov = " PEDESTRIANs 
"(ya teper' sebya tak i obzyvayu esli soboy ne dovolen) 
uvazhayut," Right-of-way " predostavlyayut s ulybkoi. 
Redkaya zdes' ptica " PEDESTRIAN ", gnyzdyatsya tol'ko 
u magazinov: ot avtostoyanki do " SHOP ". Gde ya zhivu 
- ne vidat' ne odnogo PEDE... na kvartal vpered-nazad."

"V " SHOP"e zdes' vse " PEDE... ", dazhe pisat' toshno."

"Teper' u menya est' NOMER " Driver license. " Samih 
prav s mordoi net, tol'ko bumazhka chto mogu ezdit' s 
shoferom s Kaliforniiskimi pravami - sprava ot menya.. 
No nomer est', mogu teper' pisat' ego vo vseh bumagah."
 
"Ya poluchil tri minusa pri semi dopustimyh - is 36 
standartnyh voprosov i 10-i dopolnitel'nyh testov na
ponimanie americanskih znakov. 10 dopolnitel'nyh voprosov
mne dali potomu, chto osnovnye 36 ya poluchil NA RUSSKOM!
A ya gotovilsya " in English. " Odin is minusov ya by "
in English " ne poluchil, da i eche odin - 'kakoi procent
katastrof s chelovecheskimi zhertvami v Kalifornii s 
uchastiem p'yanyh voditelei' ya hotel vybrat' otvet kak  
nado (50%), no stal umnichat' - vspomnil chto v nyneshney"
Driver Hanbook "- 38%. Staraya privychka vypendrivat'sya...".

"Yubiley byl v " weekend "- mesyac moego prisutstviya zdes'.
Eto ne luchshii yubilei - eto znachit chto halyavnoe zhil'e
zakonchilos'." Metabyte " postoyanno snimaet kvartiry dlya 
vnov' pribyvshih. V dvuhbedrennuyu kvartiru " - 2 BEDROOM -
"polagaetsya selit' novogo kazhdye dve nedeli, no seichas 
russkie poshli kosiakom: kogda ya pakoval veshch privezli 
chetvertogo. Eto uzhe ne fontan (ya zhil 3 nedeli odin v
komnate, ne slysha kak drugoi moetsya v vannoi " and all...

"Ya poka pereselilsya k Victoru Matveevu (kto rabotal na 
BESMe dolzhen ego znat'). Shema 50%-50%, v sleduyushchem 
godu hochu snyat' 2 BEDROOM s kem iz molodyh (k Viktoru
nachet semya katat'sya. Zdes' 2 desyatka is ITM i VT (gde
BESMy delali i na " SUN " pereshli); mnogie katayutsya
v Moskvu/Novosibirsk i obratno. Osobenno Novosibirskie."