I am living with a Russian family. There is an army officer father, teacher mother, and university student daughter. The daughter is studying to be a translator, and is fluent in English and German. 
The compartment has two bunks on top. I am in one of them.
I had gotten to the compartment first, and while alone, changed into my swim trunks and sandals. ( I think i will be wearing this for the four day trip!!) They arrived moments later, before I really had time to figure much out. I stepped back outside to give them room to move and because it was very uncomfortable in the heat of the compartment.
We had four plastic wrapped packs of sheets, a pillowcase, and a towel. They had already made up their two bottom bunks and turned them back into seats by the time we pulled out. I made up my bed and crawled up. Within an hour of leaving I was just in bed, reading the third of eight novels I had bought at Goodwill before leaving home. I had already left two behind at hostels.
Everybody slept in, past ten o'clock at least.
We have spent the day reading. They have also played on their iPad, read, talked some, and done some fancy crosswords.
We are running pretty much dead on time. Every few hours we stop for fifteen or twenty minutes and we can get off and shop at the vendors. Prices are somewhat high, but not much higher than in Moscow as a whole.
There is hot water at the end of the car. So I can use the dehydrated soups and noodles Eva and Judy bought for me in the Czech.
This is what it be like for four days!!!
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