Everywhere you go in Russia, there are khramy. In Russian, this word means “place of worship” and is differentiated from the word for church or cathedral because one khram can contain multiple chapels or churches, as St. Basil’s on Red Square does. Many have onion domes and bell towers to distinguish them, others are behind […]
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 […]
Our first day in Moscow, we all went on a tour of the city’s subway system and I remember looking around at it and reminiscing on the ease of waiting outside of Willis for a Northfield Lines bus to the Minneapolis – Saint Paul airport. I’d spent time in cities before this, but never enough […]
A few weeks ago, I partook in a 24 hour trip with five other Carleton students to Murom, a small town southeast of Vladimir. The purpose of this trip was educational exchange; we spent the day with first-year students who study English at the Murom Institute, a branch of Vladimir State University. We (Carleton students) began […]