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2009-01-29, Moscow, Russia. By: GnuUser | | This is a test entry for my journal. |
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 | Kremlin
2008-04-19, Moscow, Russia. By: frankieboy | | Moscow (4/18/08)
I took an overnight train from St. Petersburg to Moscow without any incidents. The train left at 11:30 and arrived at 8:00 am. I basically went to sleep. I saw Moscow’s crowded su... |
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 | The Empty City
2008-03-31, Moscow, Russia. By: mala | | Nothing makes you want to stretch your legs like five and a half days on a train. We sprung from the wagon amid the unloading of duffel bags full of Chinese cigarettes and cheerfullly navigated the Le... |
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 | Moscow
2007-09-20, Moscow, Russia. By: lou | | I made it to Moscow!! Arrived at 8 in the morning and got checked in hostel and met up with our honcho...shes lovely. Walked around a bit that evening and went to the ballet that nite. We took the m... |
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| Monday 13th October - Day 1 - Glasgow - Moscow
2006-10-13, Moscow, Russia. By: simoncj | | Bad start to the day, as plane is delayed leaving Glasgow. Most British airports are penned in by fog; this is creating a backlog of planes waiting for take-off. Finally get away only 10 minutes late ... |
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 | Moscow and St. Petersburg
2004-05-29, Moscow, Russia. By: pedro | | I've visited Moscow and Saint-Petersburg with my mother by the end of May and beginning of June 2004. We purchased a package in Switzerland whereas the accommodation, the visits and excursions as well... |
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 | From Russia with Love (Moscow)
2006-08-05, Moscow, Russia. By: hrd1977 | | After a relatively sound night on the overnight train to Moscow, we arrived at Leningradsky railway station and again started our trawl through the city in hope of finding a hotel. Unfortunately, we h... |
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 | Moscow: Our Comedy of Errors
2006-08-11, Moscow, Russia. By: jandtrish | | Our Moscow experience has been a bit like Fawlty Towers! Our confidence was high having successfully navigated our way around a very sunny St. Petersburg, and our inital impressions on the overnight ... |
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 | Moscow....again.
2006-05-14, Moscow, Russia. By: crgoss | | But this time it is with my parents. In three days we've packed in quite a range of sites. We're taking the overnight train to Saint Petersburg tonight and they will be visiting me for about a week ... |
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| Back in my city...
2006-06-05, Moscow, Russia. By: dbittner | | It has been less than one year since I left Moscow after studying in the city for 6 months. And it is ironic now that upon my departure all of my new friends were saying goodbye as if it would be for... |
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 | Moscow
2005-09-13, Moscow, Russia. By: crgoss | | Sorry. Another stub. Some pictures from my 24-hour moscow stay forthcoming. |
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 | Transiberian pictures and stories
2005-09-12, Moscow, Russia. By: crgoss | | So I rode the “Rossiya”, train No.1, from Vladivostok to Moscow. It covers a distance of about 9300 km. 8 time zones in 7 days. Amazingly, thanks to good conversation and an overkill of Japanese puzzl... |
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 | Short stay in a big city
2005-08-17, Moscow, Russia. By: Gordiekerr | | Moscow is way more colourful and wilder than I’d expected. Guess there making up for generations of greyness. There’s a summer buzz about the place. An affluence I hadn’t expected. Like any European C... |
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| Welcome to the Motherland
2005-06-06, Moscow, Russia. By: ckfencer | | I'm in Russia in our appartment. It's midnight here - 4pm at home! The flight was okay - I moved around a bunch. Kling stretched out and passed out in our two seats after the flught attendants strande... |
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 | Change of plans...
2005-06-03, Moscow, Russia. By: Dbittner | | Hello all! Once again, it has been quite a while since I have journaled, so sit down for a few minutes and induldge. Yes, I am still in Russia and I will tell you why… My internship teaching Englis... |
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| Another rainy day...
2005-05-13, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | The weather has been horrible here since everyone left on Sunday and Monday. Victory Day (May 9) was the nicest day we have had all week as we had our first thunderstorm yesterday, and today, yet aga... |
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 | Last Week of Class
2005-04-27, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | On Monday, we had our group presentation, which is the culmination and collaboration of our 6-8 page research papers. My group members are Lena and Julia Z. Our topic was the innappropriate use of p... |
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| Problems and Solutions
2005-04-11, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | The class that seems to go by so quickly dragged on forever and ever today. Every minute of the six hours was painful, not only because I am a bit sore from lifting at the gym, but because we are wor... |
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 | Sleepin' in the Streets
2005-04-10, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | Javier and his family arrived back from St. Petersburg around 9:00 AM. He had to be at Rizhskaya for a meeting at 10:30, so he ran around trying to wrap things up so that his parents could leave for ... |
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| Sizzlin' Siberia
2005-04-09, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | Today was a relaxing day, as I finally had the chance to sit down, take a break, and just, well…relax. Not too much went on…I went to the gym, and Curt tagged along for the first time in three weeks.... |
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 | It's Getting' Hot Over Here...
2005-04-05, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | When I woke up this morning to go to Russian class, I took one look outside and knew that it was going to be an awesome day. I actually did my Russian homework for the first time in three weeks, whic... |
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| A Relaxing Sunday...
2005-04-03, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | Javier's mom woke us up at 9:00 AM to the smell of hot sweet cream cereal for breakfast. I definitely like having his family here for the week as his cousin Sheila is hilarious with her Brooklyn acce... |
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 | Spring Break in Russia
2005-03-05, Moscow, Russia. By: pugsly143 | | The college that I am attending here in Lithuania took the Study Abroad students to Russia for spring break, March 5-13. It was a very exhausting trip, but definitely well worth it. We left early on... |
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 | Spring, then snow, then spring, then snow...
2005-03-25, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | [Sigh]…these journals are sure getting the best of me…what has it been now, oh wow, exactly a week since my last entry. Not too bad, but a lot has happened, and the days are flying by like nothing el... |
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| My favorite class...gym, and maybe Ag Ed
2005-03-18, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | Thursday, March 17, 2005
Thursday is the day that I look forward to each week because we get to go to the gym in the administration building for the entire morning. The unfortunate thing is that w... |
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 | Timiryazevskiy Seeds
2005-03-09, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | We met all the students downstairs at 10:00 AM to go visit a greenhouse for our International Agricultural Seminar. It was within walking distance from the hostel, and it gave us a good opportunity t... |
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| MONDAY, Monday, monday...
2005-03-14, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | We had Rama's class for six hours today, one of those hours included a quiz that was a bit more confusing than I expected. I did alright…18/21. We also spend the good part of the afternoon session w... |
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| A Russian Festival...or at least part of it
2005-03-13, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | Saturday, March 12, 2005
One of the teachers from the high school where we go to visit and practice English with the kids wanted to take us on an outing to thank us for our dedication to the progra... |
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 | High Schools and Hospitals...
2005-03-10, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | We all woke up around 9:00 AM and Javier got ready for his meeting with the US Consolate of Agriculture at the American Embassy while Simeon and I ate breakfast. Russians are so thoughtful when it co... |
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 | It's Finally Friday!
2005-03-11, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | So I wanted to get up early this morning and get some work done, but when 7:00 AM rolled around, I definitely felt as if I had only gone to bed five hours ago. Oh wait…I did! Yeah, 2:00 AM was when... |
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| What's Extension Program Planning?
2005-03-04, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | Today was our first day of class with Dr. Rama Radhakrishna from Penn State. The class that he is teaching is Extension Program Design and Delivery. I like the class a lot, not only because it is ri... |
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| What are you doing?
2005-03-03, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | I somehow managed to get seven hours of sleep into my system as we got up at 9:00 to go to the gym in the administration building. Halsey, Katia, Weston, Andrew, and I played volleyball and ran until... |
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| The Strip
2005-03-02, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | Curt and I went to the gym to lift at 10:00. It had been two days since we had been able to go because of our "Wal-Mart Run" to Ashan yesterday. We lifted like it was Saturday, and I was so, so tire... |
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| First Day of Spring?!?
2005-03-01, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | We found the greatest surprise ever waiting for us in the classroom this morning…VERA IS BACK! So we actually learned something this morning…Kakou chitas vremenye? (What time is it now?), Kogda voui ... |
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| Weekend Wrap-Up
2005-02-28, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | We didn't have classes today, only a lecture at 3:00. So I slept in until about 1:30 since I had been awake talking to everyone back home on AIM. I was glad to talk to Tony whom I haven't spoken to ... |
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| A whole weeks worth of journaling...
2005-02-26, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | Monday was spent in Ag Economics all day. Tuesday saw a little bit of Russian…we learned the Objective Case. Wednesday was a Russian holiday, the Day of the Defender of the Motherland…in other words... |
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| Where does the time go...
2005-02-20, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | Saturday, February 19, 2005
I got up early this morning to get some work done and to go to the gym. Fairly productive morning if I must say so myself. The group headed out at 2:00 PM to go to the... |
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 | Boy, am I glad that I'm not lactose intolerant!
2005-02-16, Moscow, Russia. By: DBittner | | Today, we took a field trip to Wimm-Bill-Dann for our International Agricultural Seminar course. Wimm-Bill-Dann is the leading processor/distributor of dairy, fruit juice, and bottled mineral water p... |
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