Hi Friends!
So many things happen everyday here. The first days of being with the students was good, but very stressful. I had an emotional break down the first night after we had met with the students. It was really God's grace because it was about how I always feel like an outsider in groups and most of the time I hold onto those feelings until the end of my time with people and then I break down when nothing can really be done about it. But this trip, God decided that I would break down at the beginning of the trip so that he could work on those things during the course of the trip.
The last couple of days, I've been struggling with thoughts of going home. This place feels so familiar, I look around and it's not weird to see Russian or hear people talk in Russian. There's something about this place that feels like home, it's strange and yet really cool.
I've really connected with one girl, Masha. She is really cool. She's a Christian and we've had a couple of really cool conversations.
I feel like this is the most disconnected blog post ever, but oh well. My teammates were having a dance party while I was writing some of this.
Here is a link to my teammate, Stephen's journal of pictures so far...
https://www.icloud.com/journal/#2;CAEQARoQdU81nfEb_n1Bx4sheP92Xw;9BD806F8-5F02-4329-90D7-2844541CC2C6
So many things happen everyday here. The first days of being with the students was good, but very stressful. I had an emotional break down the first night after we had met with the students. It was really God's grace because it was about how I always feel like an outsider in groups and most of the time I hold onto those feelings until the end of my time with people and then I break down when nothing can really be done about it. But this trip, God decided that I would break down at the beginning of the trip so that he could work on those things during the course of the trip.
The last couple of days, I've been struggling with thoughts of going home. This place feels so familiar, I look around and it's not weird to see Russian or hear people talk in Russian. There's something about this place that feels like home, it's strange and yet really cool.
I've really connected with one girl, Masha. She is really cool. She's a Christian and we've had a couple of really cool conversations.
I feel like this is the most disconnected blog post ever, but oh well. My teammates were having a dance party while I was writing some of this.
Here is a link to my teammate, Stephen's journal of pictures so far...
https://www.icloud.com/journal/#2;CAEQARoQdU81nfEb_n1Bx4sheP92Xw;9BD806F8-5F02-4329-90D7-2844541CC2C6
This is one of the fountains in Peterhof.
This is Catherine's Palace, where the first part of the movie Anastasia would have taken place.
Here is half of our team inside the gold ballroom in Catherine's palace
This is my Russian friend Masha. I went over to her house and her mom made really good food :)
We're staying on the 8th (top) floor of the dorms and this is the sunset view from the roof. It doesn't get dark until 12 at night and then rises again around 4 in the morning.
Thank you all for your prayers! I'll try to post again in a few days.
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