Major update

At long last I have my own internet connection so I have uploaded all the pictures from the past month. However, I posted them somewhere else as to not have to upload each picture individually; in short, go here: http://picasaweb.google.com/hazzard.duke

02-03.11.07: So I met a friend of a friend before MP today who refused to believe at first that I’m not Russian and don’t have parents or grandparents who are Russian... Later they said that I look siberian...

I met a friend of a different friend, an Englishman who is here teaching English and has been here a year and some months. He encouraged me concerning teaching as he’s had a very similar situation.

I met with my boss again yesterday and they decided to change my schedule as another is leaving - so I’m getting one of their old classes and one of my roommate’s classes whereas he is getting one of my classes (and my best class at that...I get his worst class in exchange). They’re also making me teach at a company early in the morning two days a week and another individual student.

So I stopped by a church which was never closed during commie times near where I have my individual student today. It had a lot of late 19th century icons which weren’t particularly wonderful but it also had some older icons that were very nice; plus all the woodwork was very nice. I was able to venerate relics of the Three Hierarchs, the 40 martyr’s of Sebaste, St. Seraphim and the Cross. At one point while venerating an icon I almost broke my nose and threw my neck out as the glass was a little to polished...

Went to the Detskii Dom again today for a few hours and played some games with the children.