It's hard to believe that Lent is already here! It seems like yesterday that it was the Nativity, and now we've already begun Clean Week with its cycle of services. Tonight was our first night of the Canon of St. Andrew, and it was welcome and needed. Sinner though I am, I love the Lenten services. It's wonderful to be gathering so frequently and ( Read more... )

Everyone's gone now and it's just Shannon and me left here in Moscow. The group left about 4:20am yesterday (Thursday) and then Shannon and I left for Igor's apartment at about 11am (an hour after Harley suggested we leave, two hours after the time I'd originally wanted to leave - we had complications at the hotel). I'm glad we're here at Igor's ( Read more... )

A quick update from Nizhniy Novgorod. We've got less than a week till we leave for Moscow, I've only got 6 of 12 pages written for my research paper (due tomorrow), skit practice for Friday's party is tonight, there's an exam on our seminar lectures tomorrow afternoon, I'm semi-packed, I'll be meeting my host family's grandpa Aleksandr on Saturday ( Read more... )

I'm writing while I'm a tad frustrated, so bear with me. I have yet to get through to my parents on the phones in this snow-blasted country. The whole thing's probably at least partly Ethiopia's fault too, but at least Ethiopia doesn't have (A) ice, (B) snow, and (3) slush. (It does have wind, rainy season, and mud, but we won't go there ( Read more... )

Здраствуйте из Нижего Новгорода! Greetings from Nizhniy Novgorod! This post will be largely backwards-looking so that ya'all hear a bit about our trip to Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, two weekends ago ( Read more... )

Greetings from Russia! I hope you all are doing well ( Read more... )

Здраствуйте из Нижний Новгород! Greetings from Nizhniy Novgorod ( Read more... )

Hello everyone ( Read more... )

I'm hoping to post a fuller update soon, but I haven't gotten on much lately and right now I need to work on mucking the spam out of my e-mail accounts ( Read more... )

Long time no write! This past week was a busy one complicated by a cold I came down with in the early part of the week (must've been the 'anointing' referenced in my post on 17/9 ;-) ). I nearly despaired in my Russian language class and was so thankful when our last class of the week was over. I intended to review all my notes, make flash cards, ( Read more... )