This dispatch comes at 23.08, in St Petersburg. It’s still light outside. And it’s close to midnight. Strange… but, regardless… we arrived on Friday night, after a long train ride, and went straight to the center where we’ve spent a lot of our time. After brief introductions, we checked into our very cute little hotel. Since I’m “the girl” in my group from the USA, I get my own room – yippee! I walked out of the train station, and so many things came rushing back to me! YEAY!!! I asked Yaroslav if he might be able to help me find my host family, and he thinks he may have found my host mom, but is hopefully going to cross-reference her with what I think is her husband’s name. The database he has has ages, but not street names… how’s that for odd??

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