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Our first week on the BRIC program has been a success. We are currently in St. Petersburg, Russia and are still acclimating and getting settled. We spent the first few days of this week learning about St. Petersburg; we visited Peterhof Palace and Park, a Lenta store, St. Isaacs Church and many more famous and…
Team BRIC has been radio silent on the blog, mostly due to travel, adventure and fun getting in the way (and partly due to some censored sites in China). We are now happily settled in India and I promise some more updates soon. But until then, I wanted to share some photo memories of our…
The BRIC team said goodbye to St. Petersburg last Friday and spent a brutal 17 hours traveling to Shanghai through Moscow. Instead of a line to re-check our bags at the Moscow airport, we found a mosh-pit of humanity and we won’t ever reclaim those two hours of our lives lost fighting our way to…
This post was written by undergraduate student Derek Hansen ‘12. At the start of our fourth and final week in St. Petersburg (can you believe it!?) the BRIC team seems at ease with their new, temporary home. The city is no longer something we must struggle against (whether it is to find a decent place…
This post was written by undergraduate student Derek Hansen ‘12. Far removed from grand Moscow and splendid St. Petersburg, the BRIC team’s most recent weekend excursion destination was Novgorod, a sleepy little city south of Petersburg. Situated just over a third of the way from St. Petersburg to Moscow, Novgorod was once a major center…
The past two weeks have flown by as we’ve explored St Petersburg with our hosts Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Mayakovsky, Lenin and Pushkin, among others. BRIC students are starting the second part of their Russian adventure and the following post was written by Professor Brian Seitz, reflecting on his time this fall with BRIC. Comrade Seitz reporting out…
This post was written by undergraduate student Lauren Garey ‘12. Read more on Lauren’s own blog: http://www.travbuddy.com/lgarey/blogs Today marks our 10th day in St Petersburg. How many more days do we need to make the mental transition from tourist to resident? As I walk the familiar streets, I find myself regarded as a ‘regular’ at a local…
The BRIC Fall 2010 program kicked off this week as our group arrived in St Petersburg, Russia to study Russian history, literature, politics, culture and business for the next month. We are just settling in to our new home on Vasilievsky Island and getting acquainted with our host university, the School of Management at St…
