First week of school

This is the view from our apartment... actually it's the beautiul September sky-- the well worn football field (soccer field) is not this pretty!

That there is Russian language books on my lap.

This is Joel-- besides being the first guest in our flat, he is one of our classmates.

After we were back at the apartment after school the first day, we heard the most beautiful music coming outside. It was defiinitely real time horns, so we peeked out to investigate. The door beside our door on the same building were obviously having a wake of some sort... playing music, mourners, and all. Part of our view was obstructed by a tree for most of the time, but when the procession started moving, we saw a few women carrying what looked like a coffin away toward a Marshrutka looking bus. We thought it strange that there were so many able bodied men and the babushkas were carrying the coffin. When the next wave of the procession passed, we saw that what the ladies were carrying was the coffin lid, because there was the deceased lying open air in front of everybody!

It was an interesting thing to see.