Alina Trelesnik

I come from Ukraine. I was born in USSR and witnessed its downfall before I was a teenager. I grew up with the language that is hard-to-impossible to speak and even harder to understand. That language includes idioms and folk sayings. Whenever I talk to my American counterparts, I inevitably think of an idiom - or five - and may blurt it out in my home language. Then I realize that no one understands what I just said and try to remedy the situation by translating or interpreting it.
The results can be from eye-popping to hilarious. This is the collection of things I blurt out... translated into English, of course.