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Lost in Moscow

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The doctor said something in Russian and the translator translated." I am told you did not eat your breakfast. Are you feeling sick to your stomach?" "No. I feel fine. I feel great. I just don't like Kasha," The doctor came over to me and said "aw." I stuck out my tongue to show her how great my throat was now. She made a hmmm noise and wrote on her chart. The nurse produced a thermometer. "Roll over," the translator said." The doctor needs to take your temperature." They had me trapped. I hated them all. I rolled over. My frilly bloomers were pulled down. The thermometer was freezing. I lay there in full view with a thermometer sticking out of my bum. The Russian girl in the next bed was looking at me. I heard people in the hall. People came in and out of the room. How many people did this have to involve? How many people needed to look at my bare bum with a thermometer sticking out of it? I hated the girl staring at me. I put my face down in the pillow. Maybe I'd suffocate and die. Normally I did not want to die, right now though it would have been better that way, better to die. Several minutes went by. It was quiet now. When was the nurse going to come back and read my temperature, which was going to be normal after all of this? I was fine. I waited. I waited. They must have forgotten about me. Jeepers Creepers! They forgot they were taking my temperature.

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When most parents consider sending their child to summer camp, they imagine a sunny lake a few hours out of the city. In 1977, the parents of 11-year-old Kirsten Koza sent their pigtailed, sass-talking offspring on a summer trip to the Soviet Unionwith only fifty dollars in her pocket. Lost in Moscow tells the story of Kirstens summer camp hijinks: evading the Soviet Red Army in a foot race through and around Red Square, receiving extended radiation treatments for a minor case of tonsillitis, and making a gut-churning, unauthorized parachute jumpwithout being totally certain whether her parachute would open or even stay on.
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quintathlete, June 16, 2006 (view all comments by quintathlete)
Warning: Lost in Moscow is so funny that I fell off a coffee shop stool and couldn't get off the floor because I couldn't stop laughing.

I'm a huge fan of literary travel but you don't have to be to enjoy Lost in Moscow. It's a true story but it reads like fiction...actually much of the book is dialogue and action and there aren't any long flowery descriptions of Russia at all; though there are hilarious long descriptions of humiliating toilets, ugly food, a scary hospital, deadly parachuting and swimming in a sea of jellyfish...the Black Sea that is, because that is where the author was sent in 1977. She was sent away from the western world by her family to spend her summer at a Soviet communist summer camp in the USSR. And it's not just any old camp. This happens to be the camp where the USSR sends it champion teenagers. The teens that are going into the Olympics, the military, becoming cosmonauts, or brain surgeons....little 11-yr-old Kirsten Koza, a normal kid from North America is pitted against the USSR's best-of-their-best! And boy-oh-boy, she gets into trouble!

This was a really fun read. I've recently been to Russia and even though it's no longer a communist nation....I could relate to so many things, so much of what she described is still there today!

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ISBN:
9780888012821
Author:
Koza, Kirsten
Publisher:
Turnstone Press
Subject:
Former Soviet republics
Subject:
Russia
Subject:
Travel-Russia and Independent States
Publication Date:
20031131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Pages:
300
Dimensions:
8.40x5.40x.90 in. .90 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , When most parents consider sending their child to summer camp, they imagine a sunny lake a few hours out of the city. In 1977, the parents of 11-year-old Kirsten Koza sent their pigtailed, sass-talking offspring on a summer trip to the Soviet Unionwith only fifty dollars in her pocket. Lost in Moscow tells the story of Kirstens summer camp hijinks: evading the Soviet Red Army in a foot race through and around Red Square, receiving extended radiation treatments for a minor case of tonsillitis, and making a gut-churning, unauthorized parachute jumpwithout being totally certain whether her parachute would open or even stay on.
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