Kristin Schell
Greetings from the Y Dacha in Yaroslavl, Russia! I’m a few days behind in updating from our #YMCARockies2Russia journey. We finally have reliable wifi. I’ll be short on words, but as they say… a picture speaks a thousand. Enjoy a small glimpse of what our group has seen. Day 2 in Moscow began with our group braving the Metro. Once…
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Leo Tolstoy said, “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” I’m not sure we’ll be penning great literature over the next ten days, but our delegation from the YMCA of the Rockies will be sharing stories of our journey to Russia. For those of you who are…
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
~ T. S. Eliot Every weekday around three-o’clock, if I’m on time, my four children climb into the mini-van, tired and a bit grumpy from a long day at…
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You know the ice breaker game played to encourage groups to get to know one another? Everyone tells an obscure fact about themselves that no one would ever guess. For the last 20 years, on such occasions, I’ve shared ‘I’ve been ice fishing in Siberia’ as my random factoid. Every once in a while I’ll play the ‘I finished a marathon’…
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