Posts Tagged "Hockey"
Sakhalin Youth Playing Hockey
As we traveled by car in the small Sakhalin town, we passed a group of children playing hockey in front of a Soviet-era residential building. There were seven boys and one girl. She said her name was Yana and that she was 11 years old. She was too shy to say much more.
Nikolai: Retired Machinery Worker
RAMENSKOE, MOSCOW SUBURBS: I could see a group of school children from across a pond playing on the ice. One was skating in circles with a hockey stick. As I git closer, I realized the hockey player was an adult. As I got around to that end of the pond, I realized it was a pensioner. He said his name was Nikolai and had worked his whole life as a machine factory. Now in his mid 60s and retired, he got back into ice skating a few years ago to stay in shape. He said he had gone a few decades without skating, but quickly got back in the grove.
