Monday, August 27, 2007

Last Minute Stuff

In 8 short hours I should be taking off from Portland, headed to Chicago, then Frankfurt, then St. Petersburg. Hopefully on the way I'll meet up with other people from my group. There are about 6 of us coming now, with one girl waiting for her passport, and our head teacher is gonna be there as far as I know. I just realized, I hope someone is waiting with a sign for us ILP people!

One of the landmarks of St Petersburg is the Savior on the Blood church. It's never been used for any major church services, and was heavily damaged in the Siege of Leningrad (St Petersburg in WWII). Today it is a museum, covered in the icons traditional of Eastern Orthodox churches. When I was there my junior year of high school it wasn't open, but it's one of the top places I want to see while I'm there.

My next post will be from Russia, and I'll do my best to have pictures of my group, host family, etc up soon after that. 24 hours of flying and airports, here I come...

2 comments:

~Mandy said...

Let's just hope that that ILP sign is in English, not Cyrillic. Oh wait, that wouldn't make a difference anyway... :p

Linuxgeek said...

Hope the plane doesn't beat you up too bad, but if you need to sleep I'm sure you could just stretch out in the overhead bin :) Ok so i just realized your like 11 hours ahead.....wow.....anywho can't wait to hear form you.

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