I kept running into the same Israeli guy, Greg, three times two days ago and thus became good friends. Last night I went to his dorm for dinner and we indeed had some great time.
Greg has a super funny a-bah (dad). He showed great interest to my Chinese origin when he was skyping with Greg and I had to wave to him several times in front of the netcam. Later this became a topic. As an alleh-hadash (immigrant) from Russia, Greg told me how his dad played Soviet songs when he was small.
"You can imagine how those former Comsomols enjoyed their youth time..." said Greg.
"Yeah, actually I know precisely because my parents' generation was so deeply influenced by Soviet culture. Those were the only foreign songs available at that time indeed." I replied.
And suddenly I remembered a rhythm that I heard when I was young.
When I hummed this Greg shouted "OMG, you know this??" And he started to sing in Russian.
It was an amazing moment. A Chinese and an Israelite were singing a precise Soviet love song in two languages: Mandarin and Russian.
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