I'm back in Canada. And I'm happy. It's not that I don't like Russia (anyone who knows me knows I love it), but sometimes you just know it's time to go. My last day in St. Petersburg was solemn. I had finally made it out to Piskarovsky Cemetary, and I sat. This cemetary is filled with the victims of the blockade of Leningrad during WWII, 500, ( Read more... )

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Oh, that's right....

THE HERMITAGE!

(How sad is my life? I'm sitting in the second biggest museum in the world and here I am, on a computer...so sad...)

So I've been in Riga for a couple of days now, it's pretty nice (I still like Tallinn better though). Yesterday we went up to a house that one of our professors in Halifax owns...SO NICE. It's in one of the most beautiful parts of the city where alot of the buildings are Art Nouveau, the architect of alot of them being the father of Sergei ( Read more... )

This is going to be short and sweet:

Tallinn Rocks!!!!

Haven't seen enough of Riga to tell if it's better yet.

Going to Old Town now....

Bye.

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Well, we've been here in St. Petersburg for almost three weeks ( Read more... )

What's up peeps? Things have been going alright here, been pretty busy with school and just figuring out things I guess. My professor, Norman, arrived from Dal on Friday and he's been hanging out with a few of us for the last couple of days. Last night Marcel (his sister Melanie is here studying, and he came along to help her with her 8 year old ( Read more... )