Back Across the Pond.

Hello,

Back on the lovely little continent of North America after a day of flying around the world, I'll give a quick recap of how that went.

We didn't sleep on the 27th, because it was pointless to sleep for maybe an hour or two before having to pack everything and leave, so we just stayed up.

We got to the airport at around 2 AM, and waited for the chance to get through customs and such. It did, thankfully, go quite smoothly in Russia. We actually had a Lufthansa worker at the baggage check, so that went very well, nobody got dinged for baggage, so that was cool.

So we first flew from Perm to Nizhny Novogorod to Frankfurt, where we were welcomed back to the Western world by a round of MacDonalds. After hanging around the Frankfurt airport a while, we took a 9-hour flight to Toronto, where the real fun began.

A few members of the team thought it would be cool to get knives in Russia, the spring-loaded ones. The kind that they got are OK in the US, but little did they know they are illegal in Canada. So customs was a royal pain, since a bunch of people on our team bought them. I didn't so I was fine. The ones who did however, got stuck up in customs for a long time and actually missed the flight to Vancouver. That flight was OK, though the TVs were broken in the plane. I luckily bought a magazine and crossword book in Frankfurt, so I was sufficiently preoccupied.

We are now staying at a church here called 'Glad Tidings'. We were originally going to stay in the base at Napier street, but a disgruntled neighbor decided to kindly greet us with a can of worms.

The building before it can be used for housing must be 're-zoned' for the purpose of housing. We did that, but an apartment complex decided to appeal the rezoning and for some reason or another called the press and told them to keep an eye on the building or something like that. We weren't explained too much about it, so that's all I know. So to be safe, YWAM vdidn't want us to be there in case TV stations/ newspapers decide to come over.

So anyway, we're here for the week, and we'll be busy for most of it.

Arrivederci.