Afternoon with Americans
Yesterday after our fellowship meeting, we went with a bunch of the young people from our group and 6 young people from America who had helped in 2 different English camps. The first week they helped out at our groups’ English camp and then the next week they helped out with another groups’ camp. English camps and camps in general are very popular here during the summer months. The Americans stayed in groups of 2 at different people’s houses and in their free time, which I don’t think was very much, they were able to go sightseeing.
Here are some pictures from the afternoon:
We posted a video of the changing of the guards a while ago, but it’s neat to watch. See if you can march like them and then do it in unison with someone else.
Sightseeing
This past Wednesday night, Micah’s mom got here safe and sound. Violet has really enjoyed having Grammy around to play with all the time. So far we have only been to Red Square and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior Church. But this time we went inside of St. Basil’s at Red Square, which was pretty interesting.
In front of St. Basil's
Inside...
Looking up into one of the domes
Cathedral of Christ the Savior
Pictures in the Park
This past week I went to Tsaritsyno Park with Violet and my friend Tanya. We had a nice time walking slowly around the park while taking pictures.
The last day of school all older Moscow school-girls get dressed up to officially say goodbye to childhood.
At school, in the first and ceremonial part of the celebrations, teachers hand out high-school diplomas and say some nice words about their students.
After that the school-leavers go out to party with their classmates.
Traditionally, on this day Russian girls wear old-fashioned Soviet style school uniforms: short brown dresses with white aprons, white socks and big white bows. Later they change into evening dresses.
But the outfits are all part of a long standing tradition, with black and white uniforms representing the standard attire of school students supposedly in pre-Soviet times, in the period of the Tsars. It should be noted that Russian teenagers are in fact very fashionable, but for this one special day they put away their designer clothes and embrace tradition.
After that, they walk around the city, bathing in fountains, taking pictures of each other and generally enjoying themselves.
Read more info about it here.
Six Sandowiches 