Hello

Well, I have now been here in St Petes for nearly 3 weeks, and it feels like we have done loads! So far, we have handed out nearly 2000 student diaries with a questionnaire attached, found accommodation (but not yet moved), re-started the Believers Group, been bowling with the Russian team who work at a different university here in St Petes, and been camping! We have also managed to squeeze in almost the whole of series 1 of Prison Break, Chicken Run, and The Fugitive. Spot the theme!

The place we went camping was near a village called Gromovo. We all had a really great time, although the weather was poor to say the least. The high water mark from the lake was also pink, but that didnt stop us! We originally decided that if we couldn't start a fire, we wouldn't stay the night, but we managed to find some dry wood, and cooked some really good food. Russians are very into meat, and have kebabs called shashliki fairly often. They are good when they are done over a fire!

Our team here consists of our leaders, Aaron and Jo, a guy called Luke and me. We are small but powerful! Here are Aaron and Jo:

And this is Luke!

Then we have Indirra, who is one of the key students that lead our Believer's group, and who me and Jo will be discipling this year.

The other leader of the Belivers Group is Boris. He is in his final year of a degree in Business.