The Love Department

One of the funniest conversations I have had so far was with one of my host mothers. The way it works here, apparently, is that you go to a hostel and once that is full they call up some random people who will host you in their private apartments. That's how I ended up staying with a very friendly Korean-Russian lady in Irkutsk.

One night, I came home late from my wanderings around the city, I met her walking around the apartment in a kinky silk dress with a BIG cleavage. We started talking over a midnight glass of milk and I ask her:

"So, what's your job?"

"I am specialist in the love department."

"I beg a pardon?"

"I am a SPECIALIST in the LOVE department."

She says with what I interpret as a telling smirk on her face. Well, alrighty, then. As it turns out later that night, she actually is a specialist in the law department!