Talking of superiors, after nearly a month I still haven't met the (near-mythical) Rob Jensky, who is the great leader - sorry, Great Leader - of this whole Language Link Russia thing.

Everyone I've spoken to says he's quite a character, a real anecdote teller. The most popular anecdote seems to be about the time he was stranded in Israel and had to sell his motorbike to afford a plane ticket back to the States... although his Vietnam stories have quite a following too.

Actually, I'm quite looking forward to meeting him.