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	Create New Topic   My Posts   My forum buddies   Invite friends   Private messages Russian brides > Main Forum > Kid in a Candy Shop redux Author Post crashnsplash Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 10:22:48 AM   LOL!! I'll have to remember the beano and the slippers. Not really looking forward to making myself look like a bit of a fool in the first 24 hours. ensata Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 11:22:39 AM   Wow! The wisdom justs keeps spewing forth. I just hope that customs dosen't confiscate my stash of beano, immodium, tylenol, ginsing, ginkp biloba and other good stuff I will be packing to keep my mind and body in good working order. What sort of medicines and all are available at drug stores or whatever their equivelant may be? Let's see gotta pack: toilet paper, beano, draino... jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 12:33:17 PM   I'm glad you are getting all this ensata... These are things you are never likely to read in Travel Guides!! (Well maybe a few things you will.) But seriously folks.... ANY over the counter medication you might be interested in, you had better bring with you. You won't find it there. You will find things like familiar brands of toothpaste, shampoo and soap. But even though the brand is the same as you might be used to - the perception everyone sems to have is that the quality is not as good as it is for the same product made in, for instance, the US. I am not sure if that is really true or if that is just a perception. In any event - these products (toothpaste, shampoo and soap) you are most likely to find in grocery stores. Good luck trying to find any familiar over-the-counter pharmaceuticals in any local drug store. I saw no tylenol, no immodium and no other branded product I was familiar with. All labels are written in Russian (which is not altogether surprising) and in no other language. Without a translator you will be hard pressed to get what you want. Even with a translator - just try finding a preparation with a comparable chemical composition to the product you might be familiar with. I feel lost when I can't even read the ingredients label. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 12:39:54 PM   Chapstick. Looked all over for Chapstick or ANY sort of lip balm in a tube. I had a bet with my Moldovan that eventually i would find it somewhere. I lost. Ptichka Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 12:41:21 PM   No immodium???? Funny...almost every good drug store has that thing, and many many more... And labels, at least here on most of medicines are written either in Ukrainian, Russian and English or in Ukrainian and English, and there maybe of course some written on either Ukrainian or Russian only. But almost all of them have the names in Latin, or something that seams like Latin:)) So I guessed there should be no any problems with these things... jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 12:47:39 PM   I found only Russian and a little Moldovan in Moldova. TimH Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 12:47:48 PM   Yes Jet, often its is true. You can buy "Dove" soap in Russia, but its Not genuine, its a knock off and its not nice !! Although it is white just the same :o)) Most chemists or Apteka in Russia sell almost any drug you could want over the counter, many that we can only get on prescription can be bought openly in many chemists, but the brand name will likely differ. The one thing to remeber is that the Pharmacutical Industry is Global, its called Imodium in the US/UK and its called Imodim in Russia, Paracetemol, asprin, and all other chemical drugs are the same name there as they are in your local dispensary. "All labels are written in Russian" Yes they are Jet, but read them !! They actually say "Paracetemol", "Imodium" etc if you read the Russian text and pronounce it right :o)) Chapstick as you put it will be called Lip Balm very likely, and usually comes in a small round tub about the size and depth of 6 silver dollars stacked in a pile :o) jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 12:52:13 PM   Guess it would be helpful to know the phonetic pronunciation of the Russian letters. But nothing I saw looked the least bit familar - no similar package color or lettering schemes that would suggest that these were anything like familar products. TimH Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 1:16:57 PM   No mate, they often wont look like the same thing, but the Russian will read exactly as the US / UK name does, time to learn your Russian alphabet :o)) groon Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 8:08:32 PM   All this talk about agencies and the candy store bit got me curious. I registered a while ago thinking it was required for posting here. I just checked teh email account I setup for them and oh my god. Lots of emails! Hundreds of them! The photos make me wonder tho. Many seem to be professional photos. Makes me think they are fake. But it truly is a candy store. Hard to decide who to write to. I'm trying to sort them by English level. Wonder if I will find scams here... How reslistic is it to expect to meet someone from Russia and have a long lasting relationship given the differences in culturs and language? Man Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 8:33:19 PM   Many of the girls here are with agencies who have their girls professionally photograghed. You would be wise to just start learning Russian now and be done with it. groon Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/31/2004 11:39:14 PM   Man: How do you go about that? Any suggestions? Man Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/1/2004 12:00:27 AM   Go to your lirary and put your name on the list to borrow Pimsleur Complete Russian Course.. Or just do a google search on learning Russian and buy it off the web. It is not cheap but it is good. I suggest supplimenting that course with another at the same time. They usually have short courses of various methods at book stores in the language section. Get them on CD so you can easily rewind repeatedly. Get a walkman or similar device with a discreet monaurel earpiece and a carry pouch and saturate your self in Russian. groon Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/1/2004 12:35:51 AM   Man: You weren't kidding. Over $1,000 USD for all three! Will check of my library has it and see if it's really worth the money. Thanks! Man Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/1/2004 12:40:24 AM   You should be able to get each course for about $170. Keep looking groon Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/1/2004 4:57:04 AM   Will do. Man, thanks again. Worldtraveller Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/1/2004 8:18:08 AM   Guys, in my humble opinion you consider Moldova as something quite complicated... toiletpaper: never thought about the importance of it. I use it. Thatīs it! To bring your own ones is a more than funny idea. slippers: every normal family has one or two pairs avaliable for guests. Do you really believe, that all people in Moldova, visiting each other, carry their own slippers across the city all the day?? Translations: there is a page in the web, called "translate.ru". It helps. Soaps, shampoos, cosmetics: the normal western trademarks are available, but they are often produced in countries like Slovakia, Romania and others. So the quality can differ from our western ones. Ensata: feel free to ask me concrete questions. When will you go to Moldova? Worldtraveller Ptichka Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/1/2004 9:04:47 AM   Worldtraveller well yes I think that you're right there are some things that are funny:))) OK I'm not from Moldova, I'm from Ukraine, but we have here many as well good shampoos and cosmetics, which is very very often produced in Poland, I would even prefer Polish soaps to Russian, don't know why but even thought the marks are the same the ingredients are the same but Polish is better:)))) taking slippers maybe a very good thing, but this should be discussed with your girl, or with your friends. I have just 1 pair of extra slippers, so when more then 1 person comes, I also him to take care about this or he may walk without any slippers, I don't mind that, but my parents are very nervous when guests walk without slippers or any house shoes, just because they don't have enough of slippers for al guests...so this should be discussed. Translate.ru...not too good, would offer you to visit www.lingvo.ru , it's the best online and offline dictionary I ever worked with, very very good, it includes medical, juridical, technical, universal, computer and so on words, with many examples and synonyms. So you may try this as well:) Ptichka Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/1/2004 9:05:03 AM   Worldtraveller well yes I think that you're right there are some things that are funny:))) OK I'm not from Moldova, I'm from Ukraine, but we have here many as well good shampoos and cosmetics, which is very very often produced in Poland, I would even prefer Polish soaps to Russian, don't know why but even thought the marks are the same the ingredients are the same but Polish is better:)))) taking slippers maybe a very good thing, but this should be discussed with your girl, or with your friends. I have just 1 pair of extra slippers, so when more then 1 person comes, I also him to take care about this or he may walk without any slippers, I don't mind that, but my parents are very nervous when guests walk without slippers or any house shoes, just because they don't have enough of slippers for al guests...so this should be discussed. Translate.ru...not too good, would offer you to visit www.lingvo.ru , it's the best online and offline dictionary I ever worked with, very very good, it includes medical, juridical, technical, universal, computer and so on words, with many examples and synonyms. So you may try this as well:) Worldtraveller Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 6/1/2004 10:43:15 AM   Ptichka, lingvo.ru is new for me. So thank you for it. By the way: you prefer russian websites in your Ukrina :-))) O.k., Lugansk is close to Russia :-) Well, if I have problems with my stomach in eastern Europe, I prefer to use the local traditional medicine: 50, or letīs say better, 100g vodka or cognac. It helps always - at least you got the impression and fantasy of it:-) Anyway: the regular local medicaments are much better than to be expected. Donīt worry. I survived already 4 years :-) In Moldova, similar to Ukraina, you can get all kinds of "falsifikats". From original Boss clothes, scamming cognac, till original Coco Chanel No5 :-) Buy it, and you will recognize, how Chanel can taste :-)))) Much more important than Shakespeare`s question about the moldovan toilet-paper or the existence of bidets is to know, that your luggage should be carefully closed, if you give it/take it in the airport of Chisinau. Personal things of your suitcases get sometimes "lost". For example your money, not comfortable, skinprotecting american toilet-paper :-) Worldtraveller Your Reply: Your name:   New Registration Password:   Forgot password?   refresh Code:   Russian brides > Main Forum > Kid in a Candy Shop redux
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