Browsing all posts in March, 2010.

Russia… Day #… who’s counting

Last night was fun. Enjoying the different perspective. We asked a law student from the number 1 law school in Russia whether “legal ethics” was taught in law schools here… her response “what is that?” hilarious. In Russia, you do not need to attend law school to be a lawyer. There is no bar and [...]

More Moscow

It’s a challenge trying to do a post each day. The internet at my hotel is extremely slow, and I can only log on if I get up early. I’ve had a full schedule the last few days. Since Monday I’ve traveled extensively (as extensively as one can travel over 2 days) using the Moscow [...]

Moscow!

I arrived in Moscow yesterday (Saturday 3/13) at 10:45AM. The experience at the airport was weird but understandable. People surrounded us and stared at the 4 blacks in our group of 25. Apparently, blacks do not regularly arrive at the Moscow International Airport. I recently learned that their were only approximately 10,000 blacks among roughly [...]