Tuesday, October 03, 2006
home and alive
Yes, I know I didn't update my blog for ages now... It wasn't really so easy in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and I don't like internet cafés too much. Still I will try to tell you a bit more about my Russian experience and especially upload the pics, finally! A blog without pictures is really boring.
After leaving Saratov at the end of August (sniff), I travelled by train to St.Petersburg. On the 29 hours trip I discussed with the conductor about life and destiny, which was very funny because of course we spoke Russian.. Even though my Russian is very bad, but it's amazing how well you can communicate with hands and acting.
The stay in St.Petersburg was really nice, I found friends in the Youth Hostel (my best cheers to Jeanine from Amsterdam who is in Mongolia right now) and explored the city mainly by foot. St. Petersburg is 'only' 300 years old and was built according to a masterplan from Italian architects. You can see that the city's structure did not grow naturally, which gives to some extend an artificial feeling. But it is so beautiful!! See more in a special St.Petersburg post with pictures.
One week in St.Petersburg, one other in Moscow. I had the pleasure of being the guest of Plamen, a wonderful guy with an AIESEC mind and heart. He was once the trainee of AIESEC in Basel, became a CEEDer and a honory member of AIESEC Basel. He worked for Novartis in Basel for some years and moved this summer to the Russian branch in Moscow. By the way, we had some sort of AIESEC Basel meeting in Moscow, I could meet with Julius who is also an ex-president of LC Basel. This world is so small...
I flew back to Germany on the 15th of September and met Geoffrey there :-)). We departed to a two weeks-holiday in Sweden and Italy. Good feeling to have him back. ¶ 5:13 PM
After leaving Saratov at the end of August (sniff), I travelled by train to St.Petersburg. On the 29 hours trip I discussed with the conductor about life and destiny, which was very funny because of course we spoke Russian.. Even though my Russian is very bad, but it's amazing how well you can communicate with hands and acting.
The stay in St.Petersburg was really nice, I found friends in the Youth Hostel (my best cheers to Jeanine from Amsterdam who is in Mongolia right now) and explored the city mainly by foot. St. Petersburg is 'only' 300 years old and was built according to a masterplan from Italian architects. You can see that the city's structure did not grow naturally, which gives to some extend an artificial feeling. But it is so beautiful!! See more in a special St.Petersburg post with pictures.
One week in St.Petersburg, one other in Moscow. I had the pleasure of being the guest of Plamen, a wonderful guy with an AIESEC mind and heart. He was once the trainee of AIESEC in Basel, became a CEEDer and a honory member of AIESEC Basel. He worked for Novartis in Basel for some years and moved this summer to the Russian branch in Moscow. By the way, we had some sort of AIESEC Basel meeting in Moscow, I could meet with Julius who is also an ex-president of LC Basel. This world is so small...
I flew back to Germany on the 15th of September and met Geoffrey there :-)). We departed to a two weeks-holiday in Sweden and Italy. Good feeling to have him back. ¶ 5:13 PM
