A Travel Blog, by Jacqui and Pedro Pablo. Update, and Some Highlights. November 7, 2011 by. September 16, 2011 by.

, and already some of my other Russia ETAs have returned for round two. I meant to write this post a long time ago, but time slips by, so better now than never. All of this is my round-about way of saying that even though the last year of teaching English in Voronezh had more than its share of challenges, it was worth it.

Right now, everything feels too surreal for me to do a convincing retrospective on the Fulbright experience. Expect something like that later. Think positive thoughts for my trip! Surprisingly, we spent most of our time outside of Moscow.

They sent me to Siberia! My blog does not reflect the opinions of the Fulbright program or the U. Just in case you were wondering. My final week was, obviously, full of farewells, which ranged from nonchalant to. Some of the goodbyes I felt most acutely were those with people I may not have known very well, but whom I saw every day, like the wonderful ladies who work at the TSPU. Some goodbyes, as I mentioned, were very festive. My friend Olya and her mothe.

The Tales of a Scotsman True. in the DR! Wednesday, June 5, 2013. When I first arrived here, I was hard on the country. I got here in J.

We passed hoop houses and rice paddies, stopping at checkpoints and at sometimes very elaborate rest areas. Were everywhere, and we rarely had to wait more than a dozen kilometers before finding another pit stop.