My Crazy Life in One Post

Well my life in the past few weeks has been crazy to say the least. I have been busy with my language study and helping with some volunteer college student groups that have come. Well the first group that we had was from Missouri. They were a really cool group. They were here to help our Student Team with English Clubs and speaking to English classes in the univeristies. They really made a great impact on our city. While they were we celebrated our city's 149th birthday. So we spent the day atthe river and watched fireworks that night.

This is our "famous" beach at the river!

Deaf students selling balloons for the celebration.

(my mission field)

Then our new team came from Cincinnati and I took them around to see the city and went on a boat ride. However since they have been here I have gone to see Fantastic 4 in Russian and I went to an orphanage.

I got to walk and play with a dog while I was at the orphanage.

UC team, Jody and Misha leading the kids in song.

Something I was introduced to this week was "summer snow", which is not really snow. It is this fur stuff that comes from the trees here. The cool thing is the wind blows it out of the trees so it looks like it is snowing all the time here.

Last but not least we took Connie our SC out to dinner for her birthday to this really cool Russian resturant. Check this out!