OK, I've got one. Russian...
And it doesn't involve bullying - I was bullied to some extent, for most of those involved it was just a 'phase' but there's one guy that I still wish dead.

Anyway, this was on a school trip to Prague. Now, I went to a rather international school, so you have kids from all over Europe on this trip, all aged around 16. My then-best friend and I (both German) had ended up sharing a room with this Russian guy, S, and another bloke (Dutch-French, or something). As it happened, we spent quite a lot of the copious free time our teacher gave us with S (or rather, S decided to spend it with us). There are several other interesting stories about S, but two of the best were on this trip.

First, we were walking along the streets of Prague towards the meeting point, and S was telling us about how he hates Germans for what they did to the Jews in the Holocaust... but we're an exception, because we're nice. Right - a little odd, we're feeling flattered to be the only Germans that he forgives for what happened 40 years before we were born, but here's the good bit: Only a few minutes later (I'm not sure how the change of subject happened) he's telling us about the Jewish world conspiracy, and how Jews secretly run everything and they're all sinister and evil. OK... *slowly backing away*

The other one was about his obsession, during that trip, to smoke pot. Fine - except he never did, just talked about it. Once, he went into one of those tourist rip-off shops that sell various weed paraphernalia, and apparently asked them where he could get some actual weed... and they pulled out a tourist map of the city and made a few crosses on it. Or the time when we were walking along, fairly briskly, when a shady figure sidles up to us and mumbles "want to buy some hashish?". We all say no, keep walking, and suddenly S exclaims "I can't believe I just said no!" He also nearly started a fight with someone selling dope by trying to take a photo of them, until one of the girls in the group dragged him away and defused the situation.

Not to mention the fact that S walked around Prague all week wearing a balaclava. Just to keep warm. Which isn't going to be a particularly clever idea anywhere, but for a Russian in the Czech Republic? Oddly enough, nothing really happened.

I don't think he got bullied. I suspect all the bullies were scared of him - he's the "scary" type of weird, not the "let's make fun of the weirdo wimp" type. I believe he works for a bank now and makes quite a lot of money.
(julius, Thu 25 Jan 2007, 13:51, Reply)