Russian Cruise Anyone?

Last Tuesday night there was a YSL dance entitled "Petersburg Style." People were supposed to dress up in the style specific to St. Petersburg. So, being without any St. Petersburg clothes and not having the money to buy them, I did the next best thing: I got a St. Petersburg haircut: a mullet.





I had my roommate James cut my hair. By the way, James had never given anybody a haircut before, had never learned about haircuts and used this old pair of ordinary Russian scissors to do the job. You can refer to the picture from the dance and form your own opinion about my haircut. Our host mom was pretty upset with me and Chelita Pate, the BYU employee who lives here and supervises us, was pretty much horrified. So horrified in fact, that she cut my hair again less than 2 days after I got my Petersburg haircut. I guess it wasn't meant to last, but it was sure fun to have a mullet for a couple of days.
Okay, so we went on a Russian cruise of Lakes Ladoga and Onega, in which we visited the islands of Valaam and Kizhi. Feel free to click on any of the links to get more information on any of those destinations. To summarize the 4-day cruise, there were stop-offs in the day, nice meals on board and crazy Russian dances at night. The last night we had a final concert in which various guests performed. The other guys in the Study Abroad group and I decided to sing the Beatles Yellow Submarine. I managed to procure the crew members' uniforms, which we wore as we performed (to rauccous applause.) It was fun.