I took the following photos in Winter 1998 when I studied at Åbo Akademie in Turku, Finland. I turned eighteen in Finland. I had been invited to participate in an exclusive exchange program between Åbo Akademie and Presbyterian College.
Finns are exquisite people, and their women are beautiful.
Turku Cathedral at sunset.
The ivy-cloaked entrance to the English department at Åbo Akademie.
Damon Tringham, my British Realia professor and my best mate abroad.
Damon and myself at his apartment.
Traffic in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
An entrance to a Russian Orthodox cathedral.
My traveling mates in Russia: Dow and Hannah (Australian) and Gunter (German).
One of the many canals that thread through Saint Petersburg.
My stamped, stamped, and re-stamped customs form while in Russia. Two things are worth pointing out.
One: the customs form heading still reads U.S.S.R.
Two: section IV of the customs declarations requests that the traveler announce any "government bones" brought into the country.
More Russians die from freak Tetris accidents annually than any other cause.
Myself perched on a wall that overlooks the majority of Moscow.
The elderly remains of the Communist party parading in Red Square. They were openly jeered by fellow Russians.
Hannah and I playing chess in the Ukraine Hotel with handcarved pieces that I bought from a street peddler.
I haggled him down from $15 to $5.
Big cats all in a row at the circus.
Amazing big cats.
A nationalist horseback finale.
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