Russia!

Moscow & St Petersberg there I went!!!

Cherisse on top of St Petersberg Catherdal

Cherisse & Pasquale

Cherisse in Red Square, Moscow

We had a fabulous time in St Peteresberg and Russia. I went with a group of 23 students from The American University of Rome. We had a kick ass time! We saw so much in only 5 days. The trip started off a little shady when we discovered the travel agency messed up my ticket and I couldn't fly to Milan with the group. Plan B was taken... I flew to another airport in Milan then took an expensive damn taxi to the correct Milan airport to catch my flight with the group to St Petersberg! I made it! The rest of the trip ws a breeze.

The churches were beatuiful and the architecture was jaw dropping at times. All the gold! Many places we went to prohibited camera so we got pretty repetitious in the Red Square Moscow and down main street in St. P. The women were gorgeous and tall! I fit right in!! Haha. It was an amazing experience with a great group of people. It was very interesting to see the Bear and the monkeys in the Square. People do the craziest things for money! Seeing Lenin's body in the Masoleum was a site, but it wasn't like I've never seen a dead body before..hazards of the 'real' job! The Church of the Sacred Blood was amazing with its mosaic walls. Brillant! Overall the cities were gorgeous and clean! Put Roman walls to shame! Moscow kept reminding my of Candyland! I loved it! Maybe Russian will be the next language to learn...or maybe I should just focus on Italian!

Big thanks to Stefano who organized it all! Grazie mille Stefano. Sei meriviglioso. La prossima volta in Sri Lanka, ci saro'.

TuNiSiA

Ciao tutti! Hope everyone is doing well. I've been pretty busy and haven't blogged. So here I am! Well the past couple weeks have flown and so have I! Hehe! Actually last weekend I flew to Tunis, Tunisia and spent time with Vance over Easter. I brought him a typical Italian cake that comes out only round Easter....that's about as Easter as we got in the Muslim country. Even the Catholic church was closed on the Easter weekend. Weird!!!

So since I came back I have been a paper writing fiend! And I'm off again this weekend to Russia! St. Petersburg and Moscow...watch out...here we come!!! About 25 AUR students are going. It's an 'open' trip...we travel to the cities as a group, but we are free to roam all we want. I'm excited! I wish my honey could have gone with me, but he's working in Tunisia! :(

Side note....Kristy, Ansley S. says hello! She found me on myspace. It's such a neat thing. I lost track of her during the first university years, but it was nothing to "jump right back in" to our friendship. Very cool!

Have a great weekend! I'll get some pics loaded of our trip when I get back!! Bacio!

MSA meeting

Hi! Ciao! Salve! My name is Cherisse and I am a MySpace Addict. It's been only 2 hours since my last login. I will do my best not to dream of messages or people to search for. Psst. Bull! I'm on a mission to find ole high school friends and Baylor pals! It's too much fun. I've already found my 2 best childhood guyfriends and high school friends! It's amazing what technology does for you!

Tina, Glad your trip to Dallas was a blast. Vicky, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY. 21 at last! Kristy, Miss you babe! Vance, See you Thursday! Tunisia here I come. Will I have access to internet though? I'm not sure how I'll do without MySpace.

Lots of love! Bacione!

SuDoKu

OK! I'm addicted! Grazie mille Martina! See what happens! Now I'm up til 1am doing these things. My eyes are going cross and I can't count higher than 9 anymore in English or Italian.

This game is nifty and you should try it. Provalo! It occupies much of the time spent on buses and trains while sitting next to smelly people!

For those who may be interested. You have to fill in the numbers 1-9 in the 3x3 box, across 1-9 and down 1-9. The same number cannot be the same 3x3 box or row. You can play it on MSN Games and online. Do a google search! Have fun!