I thought I heard that The D R felt a lite tremor.But the major shake was right under Port R Prince ,Haiti. Your stuff is your stuff no matter rich or poor.But they have their way of looking at things. Linda,who paid the chickens cab fare Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: jkaywojack <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:34:06 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Travels.. My pastor took a group of men to Russia several years ago and the stories he tells are very similar to yours. Cold showers in the dead of winter was the pits. Then he went back to the Ukraine and taught some classes, with the aid of an interpreter. We worked in the Dominican Republic for three years and I can identify with the hitchhiking. You get in a "taxi" that, in the U.S. would hold 5 people, and by the time you reach your destination there would be 9 or 10 people, along with live chickens and who know what else. Most people had no cars so you walked to the nearest grocery store or the local market, then carried your purchases back in reusable bags. All 4 of us had to go in order to take enough groceries back for a week Washing clothes was the hardest and most time consuming thing. My clothes were nothing to wash, but try jeans for three males. It didn't take long before everyone was doing their own. Then we were told that it was expected for the white people to hire maids to do their cooking and washing. The only problem was that food and my underwear and jewelry disappeared on a regular basis. It wasn't considered stealing, because we were considered rich and could easily replace what had been taken. When visiting in individual homes, the people were very kind and generous. They would insist that you eat with them, even though you knew that they couldn't really afford to feed you. Nothing has been said about the earthquake being felt in the D.R but I don't see how Haiti could be so devastated and not the D.R. Kay In a message dated 01/12/10 10:01:02 Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I went with a group called "Affect Destiny" with the Assemblies of God denomination. I had already been supporting them, sending an offering in each month, then I saw the notice in the church paper how to go on one of the trips. I went in October 1993, this was after my husband died. I had some extra money and I just knew I HAD to go. I sent in a request for an application but you had to have 3 references to tell about you. The people I asked, for one reason or another, had not sent in their reference (vacations, etc). But I got a phone call that if I could be ready to go by Oct 15, there was a group from the northwest going and I could go with them. It seemed like everything I needed, it happened. I was scared and yet excited. We flew from Seattle to Anchorage, then boarded a Russian plane for Khavorosk (sp) Russia. As I mentioned earlier, our flight plans had changed at the last minute so our guide had to frantically find a hotel for 30 people at the last minute. It would have been condemned on any of our skid rows. The covers were damp, the bathroom down the hall was a disgrace. The guide apologized but to find somewhere we could go, he said that was all he could find. The next day we flew to Vladivostok where our mission would take place. We went in groups of 4 to the different schools in the town and gave out booklets of the life of Jesus, taken from the Bible. There was 3 from the team with an interpreter. Since I was the oldest in our group (this was 20 years ago) they would bring a chair for me to sit in in the classroom. I tried to refuse but my interpreter said they were honoring me as an older person and i should sit. I got an education in the manners there. One class, some ol! der boys were being smart-mouthed, Tanya (our interpreter going to college) told them to sit down and shut up. They did too. We ate lunch at the school with the kids. They always had a type of soup, lots of times borsch, and a lot of pork. I wouldln't say it was always my favorite food but it was eatable. They always had hot tea (lukewarm tea) served in glasses. The kids were typical school kids, I loved them. We took pictures of each class we were in and they all wanted to be in the picture. The guide had arranged for taxis to come take us to the school (we were scattered throughout the city), then wait and take us back to the hotel. One time, he didn't wait and we had to wait for him to come pick us up. We were supposed to be back at the hotel around a certain time and he drove like a fox turned loose to get us back there. Of course by then it was rush hour traffic. Would you believe he went up on the sidewalk to drive around a bunch of cars, and I don't mean going slowly either. No seat belts. Another time the driver didn't wait but didn't come back to pick us up. Tanya and the secretary of the school talked a bit, then we ended up walking a block over to the main highway and they started hitchhiking. We pooled our money to pay the driver. When a man stopped, Tanya negotiated for him to take us to the hotel, paid him the money and we got in. I told her my kids wouldn't believe their mother was hitchhiking in Russia. She wanted to know if I was scare! d, I said not as long as I was with her. I guess that's not unusual to do. One taxi driver we had several times and he would talk to us (Tanya interpreting). He had fought in the Great War, what he called WW II. Very friendly. The schools were large, not much of a playground though. They had two sessions to accommodate all the kids in that area. The principal's took pride in their schools. I'll continue later about coming home. Emma > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:29:11 -0600 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Travels.. > > What a wonderful way to travel-on missions trips! I would love to hear about the people you met. Did you help in building a church or teaching, just tell us more details. > Kay > > > > In a message dated 01/12/10 04:28:13 Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > > Yes, I went on Missions trips both times. First I went to Vladivostok Russia (just above Korea and across the sea from Japan), flying from Anchorage. But our flight changed coming home and instead of coming back to Anchorage, we flew to Moscow for overnight, then to New York then back to Seattle then Portland. I flew around the top of the world, literally. > > A year later, I went to Donetsk Ukraine, via Frankfurt Germany and Kiev Ukraine, both ways. Both trips for 10 days each. And, this was a gal that never wanted to leave the United States. > > Emma > > > To: [email protected] > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:13:25 +0000 > > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Travels.. > > > > Miss Emma you've been to Russia? > > Linda,wish I could go > > ------Original Message------ > > From: Roses > > Sender: [email protected] > > To: southern-chat > > ReplyTo: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Travels.. > > Sent: Jan 11, 2010 10:59 PM > > > > > > In Unkraine, the toilets are at the end of each car too. There are little cubicles all along the side with one long aisle. There were two sets of bunk beds in each cubicle with just room to walk between them. Those bunks were 'hard' too. > > > > Emma > > > > > From: [email protected] > > > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:38:14 -0800 > > > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Travels.. > > > > > > We visited Salzburg, Austria. Saw Mozart's home. His pianoforte and pages of music he had written were on display. > > > Saw the locations used in "The Sound of Music". > > > We went on to Zurich , Switzerland, spent one day going through the shops and candy stores. Then on to Lucerne, Switzerland. Standing by the lake, seeing the quiet water like a glass table and smelling the chocolate from the eateries, made one feel that all must be right with the world. The people were so nice. > > > The South of France is really beautiful, no wonder so many rich folks go there to live. One can see the many places from the train window. The French trains go fast! The toilets at the end of each car have a sign on the wall in five languages "Don't flush the commode unless the train is moving." > > > > > > More later, > > > Belle > > > Belle > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390707/direct/01/ > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390707/direct/01/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message