During our trip along the shore of Lake Baikal, two of our nights were spent at the quaint lake-side town of Tanhoi. Before arriving, few of the students knew anything about this small town of less than 1000 inhabitants. Personally, I had just assumed it would be a dinky little fishing village like several others […]
I remember earlier in this term one of our professors jokingly described our trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad would be like sitting in jail for three days. We all laughed off what was clearly a joke but as the time flew by in Moscow and then in Siberia, I started to think more about that […]
My day started out just like any other day with class at MGU would; wake up, shower, grab a quick bite to eat, then walk over to the eleven-story building where are classes were. Having had breakfast with some of my fellow Carleton students, we all walked over to class together. It was our last […]
I never knew that I was much of a palace guy before our trip to Saint Petersburg. In fact, I’m fairly certain that I had never been to an actual palace before our day trip to the suburbs around Saint Petersburg where we managed to visit two in one day. Located about 15 miles from […]
How many college students get to say they taught English for a day at a college in Russia? I’m going to take a guess and say not many. When I first heard of the possibility to do such a thing, I hopped all over it. A group of us were soon headed for Murom, a […]
A few weeks ago we read, in Caroline Brooke’s Moscow, about the Khodynka Tragedy, in which a crowd of some 50,000 trampled 1,389 in a mad dash to try to get free goods celebrating the coronation of Nicholas II. We’ll let you be the judge of whether that was a bad omen for his rule. […]
Although the amount of food I have grown to like has certainly expanded since I got to Carleton, I would still consider myself a picky eater. At Carleton I could get away with being somewhat selective when I went to the dining halls and I almost never had problems finding something I wouldn’t put in […]