Off to Kyzyl - April 14

Having fun on the playground

View from Lucas and Jamie's apartment

Thurs. - The last blog ended suddenly I think…Roger did not realize I was not done but that is okay…now I can tell you about the Chinese students coming over. There were 4 of them and one Korean woman.  I have to say it was a very strange thing to hear them speaking in Russian and then having Lucas or Jamie translate for us.  Sometimes Jamie would forget we did not speak Russian and would look at me and talk away…it was quite funny.  We enjoyed them a lot.  They wanted to see our photos from our time in China so we showed them on the computer.  It was fun to talk about the foods we saw on the pictures and places that were different then they expected them to look like.  Then they asked to see other pictures from our trip as well.  It was a lot of fun.  Another fun thing was to share our flowering Jasmine tea with them.  They were very excited to see real Chinese tea (not green tea in a bag) and they kept drinking quite a bit.  We were glad we had brought some!!

Even in Krasnoyarsk

Today is a busy day.  We are baking and packing for a trip to Tuva.  We are going to Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva province.  Tuva is the region Lucas and Jamie plan to move to when they are done with their studies here AND get a teaching contract there.  We are so glad we will get to see the area and meet some of their friends there.  The trip will be mostly by train…overnite...and then a 5 hour “taxi” ride.  We have no idea what to expect but Sam is very excited and assures us that the train will be fun and sleeping on it is fun too.  So we most likely won’t have internet while we are gone…so when we come back on Tues we will post about this fun adventure!   I am excited to finally get to ride the train!