From Russia with love

cool building
McDonalds in russian.
outside the cool mansion thingy.
me and tanner


me and jenna (from messiah) on our boat cruise on the moscow river.
me and kaylin. yeah, she's that short
part of an outdoor memorial on the spot where russia stopped the german advance in ww2.

no trumpets in this park (actually means no honking)
tanner, myself, kaylin (mt. vernon nazarene), and sam (eastern mennonite university) at a circus in russia. way good times. saw a poodle do a backflip. who would've thought? unfortunately, no bears were part of the acts.
outside a sweet huge cathedral. my attempt at being creativee.
no matter where i go in this world, i never fit.
me and nick (from florida and attends eastern mennonite in virgina) in front of the sweetest cathedral ever.
one of stalin's creations in honor of himself. i think this is now moscow university.
tanner and john (biola) and john (messiah) in front of some sweet russian architecture
john crowell from biola. i love this photo.
out in red square. so cool.

me and denny. two small town boys livin it up in moscow.
on the bus ride from lithuania to latvia
russia!
me with yomi and wairimu (both from messiah)
bekah (messiah) and zach (mt. vernon nazarene)
more gold tops in russia
hill of crosses

me and john crowell (biola)
one of my favorites from the hill of crosses

one of our corporate visits. this is a company in klaipeda, lithuania who make these plastic polymer thingys that are eventually made into bottles, plastic wrap, etc.
me and ben at a pier overlooking the baltic sea (lithuania)
it seems like every restuarant we go to gets crazier and crazier. this one had a huge playground complex on it. this little ride was tons of fun. we even got our program director and my academic advisor, dr. webb, out on it
more hill of crosses
another favorite from the hill of crosses. i apologize for the disorder of my photos. still haven't figured out how to load them chronologically. if i had more time i could figure it out.

well, due to my lack of internet access in russia, i haven't had the opportunity to update this, but i've got like 10 minutes left on my tab in this internet cafe in my hotel so i'll do what i can.

monday and tuesday involved a lot of classes and few corporate visits (one was to Jazaki wiring where they made electrical harnesses for cars and another where they made plastic stuff) wednesday was a test (still haven't figured out what i scored). thursday we hoped on a bus for a 6hr drive to riga latvia where we had lunch then jumped on a sleeper train for a 17hr overnight ride to moscow russia. on the way to Riga we stopped at a place in Lithuania called the Hill of Crosses. An amazing history and also a beautiful location (check it out in wikipedia). the train ride wasn't to bad and the beds weren't too short but overall a good time. since being in russia we have been to the kremlin, toured around the moscow metro, gone to a circus, been to a couple different outdoor markets, seen lenin's tomb in red square (creepy), gone on a boat trip down the moscow river, gone on a bus tour around moscow, taken a ton of naps on the bus cause we hardly sleep, gone to a russian baptist church (2hr service), and walked around this huge mansion complex (oh yeah, also ate a ton of hot dogs). alright got to fly will update later.