I work as a guide and translator, introducing Spanish and Portuguese to the sights of the "non-rubbery". This time I got a group of tourists from the distant hot Mexico. Go to Old Arbat. Fortunately, no one had the means to write, and those who wanted to leave their autograph in the style of "Here was Jose" on the wall of Victor Tsoi could not fulfill their idea, although, despite my grievances, they wanted it very much. But the story is not about that. Remember the joke about Americans who believe that the bears walk in Moscow? So, in the process of a walk, our group encountered a man who was walking in a rush, in one hand he had a bottle of beer, with the other hand he held the guide on which he was leading... well, as you probably already guessed, a bear, or rather a bear. In the village, a people’s place. The first Mexican who caught his attention cried out, “Look, bear,” and after a short stumbling, my cameras came around the pair. What they talked about was not clear in the noise. And when the bear, noticing the attention to his person, stood on his back legs and started dancing in the style of "the mouse of the crab goes through the forest", there was no limit to the enthusiasm of the spectators. While the tourists were filming what was happening, she talked to the owner of the bear. It turned out that he was a coach from the Shapito circus, somewhere near there was a street show for children, the organizers rented a bear from the circus. Since on the pedestrian Arbat on cars have the right to move only the special services and all kinds of gray personalities, to a truck with a volley bear had to be transported on the lead by its own course, which, however, did not upset neither the bear nor the owner pulling the beer. And for Mexicans, quite serious people, the appearance of a bear in the center of the city impressed. I was never believed that this was a coincidence, and that, leaving the hotel, they would not become the victim of another drunk man who dropped his domestic bear from the lead.

No one in our group, except me, decided to go. But a few words were added to my Spanish vocabulary that I hadn’t heard before, although I’ve been working as a translator for 11 years, not counting InJaz’s lessons in school and university.