Last week Kanak was on the blog, this week it's the turn of the other half of the team that interned at Duval Guillaume: Ratko Cindric. The Croatian Ratko used to work as an operator of a machine that's cutting steel. So it's only logical that he became an art-director ;-). Read about his experiences at his new internship in cold cold Moskow.

Almost two weeks are already gone, time is running and life is fast here. Sometimes you think death is even faster especially when you arrive at the airport and jump in a cab to drive to the flat. 120 km/h in the city is not unusual and when there is a traffic jam an 8 lane street suddenly turns into a 12 lane street. Everyone is driving like crazy. Maybe that’s because you can buy your drivers license here on the black market. We never have seen that much expensive cars -like Maybach’s, S-classes, Hummer’s and Porsche's- in one place. They are parking everywhere, especially on crosswalks or sidewalks in front of restaurants. Moscow is a pretty expensive city which has its own charm.. Our flat is about 35 square meters and costs about $1500 a month. The good thing is that Saatchi pays for it. Food in general is expensive too. Fortunately McDonald’s is cheaper than in Germany! The people here on the street aren’t smiling much and look cold for us, but if you get to know some Russians, you will see that they are usually friendly and cooperative. That is what we experienced from the people here at Saatchi. Everyone here speaks English so we have not that language problem like on the streets or in shops. As for now we are working on four different Briefs and have enough to do. Yesterday everyone sang, “Enjoy the Silence” from Depeche Mode for an online video and we got a task to run zigzag over the red square with a camera. Well now start wondering if that is creative or a typical job for interns? We don’t know either... The agency is pretty small. It just has 68 employees, overall 3-4 creative teams and space for 60 people. Every Friday evening there are free drinks and snacks at Saatchi so we have to leave now and catch a drink!

p.s. When you see horses riding on the sidewalks of Moskow on Friday night it doesn’t necessarily means that you drank or smoked too much.