countdown...

we leave in less than a week! so crazy to think i am almost done with the adventure in Moscow. two more days of class. tonight the girls are going to a kafe for dinner and some extended talking time. the guys are going to the bana again...like a sauna type deal...boys and their naked time...and watching gladiator. tomorrow is our team shindig and we'll share all we learned and eat and have LOTS of fun. we are fun people:) Ashley leaves thursday and we'll have our last english club...friday is debriefing...saturday is saying goodbye to our russian friends and going to the ismaliada park (really, i have no idea how you spell that) for souveniers and sunday is packing! off to the airport at about 4 monday morning with a layover in frankfurt. i actually might be able to meet my dad for breakfast in germany! that's exciting. he has a layover there for 2 days and said it might work out. haven't seen him in a while. and i don't know when i will see him again. (ps he is a pilot). i think i need to apologize ahead of time for any impatience or frustration on my part when i get back home. a few minutes ago, ash and i were talking about it, and i think it might be kind of a difficult transition back into the American culture or materialism and indifference. or maybe it will be easy, sadly enough. but i DO think it will be hard to some degree, to go from living over here literally to tell people about Jesus and live for Him, and go back to so many things that are unimportant yet so many think they are vital. so i need to find a balance, maybe. but i guess it's not like we've been in Africa with NOTHING. Russia is definitely a culture obssessed with appearance, but we kind of stick out anyway. actually, sidenote, apparently i look like a Russian. a few of our friends here have told me that. not sure what to do with that. just say cool, i guess. ok. i think i might post a little something i wrote just to remind me of what it is like here, the good, bad and ugly.