So, today on Saturday, Jacqueline and I woke up quite early to go to the Russian Winter Festival. It began at 11 am and continued all through the night to celebrate the Russian New Year. You all are probably wondering why? Didn't they celebrate the New Year two weeks ago like the rest of the world? Well, and the answer for that is Yes they did. But you see, under the rule of the Czar's Russia was Orthodox in religion. Therefore, when the Catholic Church, and quite frankly, the rest of the western world adopted the Gregorian Calendar hundreds of years ago, Russia did not. They stay on the Julian Calendar, which oddly enough is where the names of our months are from. The Gregorian calendar was instituted by Pope Gregory, hence Gregorian. Julian for Julius ... read more

Well, there friends, after a pretty coo, coo weekend, today was the first day of classes. All I had was British Life and Culture. It was alright. But I was shocked to find out how many of my fellows classmates didn't know really anything about the UK, Great Britain, and England what is the difference between the three. Or when the prof gave us a map of Europe and told us to figure out where the different countries where, the non SNC people in my group could barely find France!!! But whatever, I suppose they will learn that as they go along. Well, I apologize for not writing about the weekend, but I did put it all down in my journal, so now I will do my best to replicate that without having my journal. On ... read more

Lovers and Friends alike, I have arrived in London, arrived to that wonderful person who decided to take me in for a night and also have seen quite a bit of the city. Although today's adventures were a bit frustrating, there actually was only one of them. I had to repack in the MSP airport because now for international flights you cannot take more than two bags over 50 lbs. each. Contrary to that, before it was customary to allow travelers two bags no more than 70 lbs each. And i thought i was pretty darn good packing only one bag that was under 70 lbs....that is until i got to the airport...well tomorrow brings another wonderful adventure, so...stay tuned folks! Oops! I added the pictures to the wrong entry...these pictures actually belong to "Metrogate" ... read more