"I would never skip a class." That's insane. He has in his life tried to sneak into classes, but willingly not going to one? That's just weird. "I've actually never had chocolate. It was such an expensive import that I'm fairly sure only a handful of cities in all of Siberia had it, and I've never been in any place that could really be called a 'city'." On that account it didn't matter if someone was Chukchi or Russian. The Russian Far East was not a place of luxury.