Blogs from Klaipeda, Lithuania, Europe - page 2

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 and had got the last two beds. The hostel is tiny and they make you leave between 12 and 3. We went into Klaipeda centre and had a walk around. There isn't much there, but ... read more

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 convince those guys. it was amazing. we got into separate trucks...i was a bit scared to leave april go alone..but everything worked out in the end. i was beeing driven by Vassili, a ucranian christ ... read more

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 she mentions very briefly a developing friendship between her and a guardian of a house near where she lives. The relationship began one day when the man offered Margot some food, knowing that she had ... read more

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 to us that there are definately unbelievers in the audience which is what we have been praying for. And God is so good because 80 people sought salvation. Then the next day at the school ... read more

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 is located on 5.5 hectares (14 acres) of land along Kretingos street with buildings totaling 7,700 square meters (83,000 sq. ft.) The DeFehr centras includes classrooms, computer laboratories, a library, faculty and adminis... read more