Hola después de 15 días tengo otra historia que contar, bueno por aquí también se celebra el día del trabajo entonces desde el 1 hasta 4 tuvimos libre y quería aprovechar el tiempo para conocer algo nuevo estaba pensando ir a Estonia y Finlandia pero finalmente decidí quedarme en lithuania y conocer mas de este país porque ese es el principal objetivo de este viaje conocer lo que pocos me pueden contar o leer en las guías turísticas y que yo les estoy compartiendo ahora!!! Bueno estuve en las playas de Lituania y en una península, la ciudad que tiene las [View Full Entry]

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Bueno creo que es tiempo ya de contarles mas experiencias, hace días fui a un castillo muy famoso llamado Trakai que queda en un pueblo con el mismo nombre y es muy visitado por turistas de todo el mundo esta situado en medio de 2 montañitas pequeñas, bosques y lagos, este castillo fue un importante centro político y militar de los grandes duques y reyes de este país, el pueblo de Trakai es también conocido porque allí viven los karaimes (gente que habla el lenguaje turco) y que todavía viven en este pueblo y preservan sus tradiciones, también pude probar la [View Full Entry]

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From Berlin I took the train up to the island of Ruegen in the north of Germany, and from there I caught a ferry to Klaipeda in Lithuania. The ferry ride was smooth. The only time a bit of action arose when I decided to burn a piece of paper in my cabin. The crew of the vessel were not amused at all about this, as I soon found out when about seven crew-members appeared outside my door :-) After mediterranean Antalya and hip Berlin, Klaipeda was somewhat of an anticlimax. The guidebook I was reading called it a "grim" city, [View Full Entry]

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At half past eight we left our backpacks in the cell and went for a quick look at Karosta naval port. We couldn't find anything of interest and there wasn't much of anything else. Karosta was still a pretty eerie place even in daylight. People just stood on their balconies and stared at us. Almost like a horror movie. Back in Liepaja we caught a bus to Klaipeda which took around two hours. Funnily there were about eight of us who got off our bus and walked over the car park to the hostel. Luckily we'd booked earlier in the morning [View Full Entry]

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In klaipeda we were received in tha hostel by Alyna. we had to take of our shoes ( felt nice...saudade) and i obeyed with a happy smile on my face. i notived imediately a portuguese flag a portuguese flag in the kitchen! at the hostel we met a great couple, Joses&yekaterina, who acompanied us in the next day. A beautifull day. had a meal of milk, cepelinaz ( a rugby shaped potato with meat...), and mushroom soup grebiene server inside dark bread. We went to see the kuronian spit, a natural reserve ( it is that great "tongue" of sand that [View Full Entry]

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Time to leave... saturday, 17:30, dusk...do yu think we get a ride? i wasnt optimistic... we walked for about one hour...out of town...thumbs up. nothing. i had wrote Kaunas/Vilnius on a paper yesterday....it wasnt working. gas station. some youngsters were coming in a big renault espace...they took us out of town...to the next gas station on the road to vilnius. after half an hour a group of six russian trucks stoped at the gas station. I knew only three words in russian DA , NIET e Spadzeba ( thank you, taught by yekaterina ) but somehow, after some struggling, i could [View Full Entry]

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Here are some pictures of Klaipeda, Juodkrante, and Nida. A really beautiful place; I was surprised by how few people there were on the beaches, in the towns and villages, etc., but I guess the tourist season was coming to a close. I had written a longer more descriptive entry about these two places, but it somehow got erased. [View Full Entry]

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9/21/06 So I have been meaning to write for a while and finally the time has come. And though I have a million things that I was going to write about, the following was not one of them Today I was reading Margot Schaal’s blog; for those of you who don’t know who this is, she is the mother of my friend Kaneza from Wesleyan, and she is right now living in Rwanda. Among other things, she is teaching yoga/feldenkreis classes for a UN group there (I think that is right). But in her short email to a group of friends [View Full Entry]

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So far we have had two concerts in Lithuania. They were both sponsored by the same church. One was in thier city and the other was at a school in a neighboring town. At the first concert one of the dancers hurt her foot right before the concert. We all prayed for her and she was able to dance for half of the concert but the next day found out she tore a tendon in her foot and can't dance for 3 weeks. So be praying for her. There were also even more obnoxious mockers but that is just a sign [View Full Entry]

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The following entries are from/during my semester in Lithuania. I have copied some information from the program website so as to place the entries into somewhat of a timeline and to give some background info on the program. LCC LCC (Lithuania Christian College) is a nationally and internationally recognized liberal arts university. Established in 1991, LCC has distinguished itself in the region by offering a unique, future-oriented style of education and an interactive academic environment. LCC is based in Klaipeda (Lithuania), a major icefree port city on the Baltic Sea connecting Russian and Western European business and industry. The LCC campus [View Full Entry]

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