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Saa var det endelig dagen hvor jeg skulle afsted paa min rejse, som jeg har haft planlagt igennem de sidste mange maaneder. Det var blevet sagt farvel og paa gensyn til venner og familie og summerfuglenebegyndte for alvor at komme frem i min mave. Dette gjaldt isear da jeg stod inde i lufthavnen i kobenhavn med min far og soster, samt nogle venner: Patrick, Martin, Michael, Holm, Jeanette og Kathrine.
Min forste destination er Moskva, Rusland. Mange har reageret vidt forskelligt paa dette land, naar de har hort det er begyndelsen paa min rejse. Jeg maa dog sige, at det er et utroligt speandende land, det er veasentligt mere farverig end jeg havde troet det ville have vearet og folk smiler paa gaden. Det er ikke lige som mit besog i Polen eller for den sags skyld Letland, hvor folk havde glemt smilet der hjemme. Da jeg ankom til lufthavnen efter to timers flyvning, blev jeg overresket over hvor nemt det var at komme igennem paskontrolen - Rusland er et af de lande med de mest vanskelige visumkrav, men alligevel var det bare som i Kobenhavns lufthavn.
Da jeg kom ud fra bagageomraadet stod Jane og hendes bror der. Jane er en jeg har modt igennem CISV paa min camp i Danmark i 2007,hvor jeg var ungdomsleder ogsaa kaldet JC. Det var utrolig rart at se hende igen, vi fik snakket om gamle minde og hort hvordan det gik med hinanden paa vej hjem til hende (ja, jeg kom lige midt i myldertiden i Moskva, sa de smaa tyve kilometer fra lufthavnen og til hendes hjem tog en times tid, saa vi havde god tid til det). Efter vi havde spist til aften, tog vi ind til Moskva centrum. Jeg skulle bookes ind paa mit hostel, saa jeg kunne faa papir paa at jeg opholdte mig lovligt i Moskva, og saa myndighederne i Rusland, kan holde styr over hvor tursiterne er, saa vi ikke blive veak for dem. Herefter modtes vi med nogle af Janes venner hvor vi tog hen paa en cafee og hyggede. De var rigtig flinke og vi havde en god aften. Omkiring klokken 22 tog vi hen til den Rode Plads. Det er Europas storste plads. Her var utroligt smukt. Foran os stod St. Basils katedral, der er bygget op af 9 forskellige kirker, til hojre for os var Kemlin, hvilken er murene der omgiver regeringsbygningerne. foran kremlin var Lenins gravplads, og tro det eller ej, man kan komme ind og se hans lig, det ligger fridt fremme, og jeg fik fortalt at de engang imellem maa ind og klippe hans negle fordi de stadig gror!! Til venstre for os laa der et stort shopping center med leakre butikker i som Dior, LV mv. her var der lyskeader rundt om vinduer og dore saa det lignede Magasins fron ud mod Kongens Nytorv i Kobenhavn. herefter tog vi igen hjem til Jane hvor jeg overnattede (Hostlet er kun til at faa de nodvendige papir fordi det er nemmere og billigere end de andre losninger).
Igaar, tosdag d. 24.09.09, stod det paa den helt store udflugt i Moskva. Denne gang skulle det ikke bare opleves udra men vi havde en hel reakke af forskellige museumer, parker og katedraler vi gerne ville udforske. Vi startede paa Arbat st. det er en af de leangste gaagader i Moskva, endvidere er det en af de ealdste gader, saa her var utrolig kont. Vi kom forbi en veag der bliver kaldt for Wall of Peace. Her er der flere hundrede mennesker der har tilkendegivet noget om fred, baade for verden, men ogsaa for en kendt russisk sanger, der sang for fred. Det var omgivet af et utrolig fedt ungdomsmiljo. Herefter vendte vi tilbage til Arbat st. hvor jeg kobte mig en Matreshka, den nok mest klassiske russiske ting, en figur af tre, der kan aabnes, hvor i der er en magen til, der ogsaa kan aabnes hvor der endnu engang er en magen til, og saadan kan man blive ved hele ti gange. Herefter tog vi til Moskvas Museum for Moderne Kunst. Det var et utrolig speandene musuem. Der var en ny udstilling af en flok unge russiske kunstner der gjorde udtryk for kommunismen i Rusland. Det var rigtig speande og det var en klar historie der kom frem i hvert enkelt billede og det gjorde et klar udtryk, saa endnu engang var det en rigtig god oplevelse. Herefter besogte vi en enorm stor katedral / det er den du kan se paa billedet oppe over - den var utrolig smuk ude fra. Inde i var den fornylig istandsat saa der var ikke meget charme over den. Jeg var meget imponeret over saa mange mennesker der var, og det var ikke kun turister! Folk lob rundt for at teande lys som de havde kobt i dyre domme, og det virkede mere som en engemaskine frakirkens side end egentlig at veare for de troendes skyld, der var skam ogsaa en stor sovounir butik inde i kirken, saa jeg ser det mere som en pengemaskine end noget andet. Nu var tiden blevet til endnu et besog ved den Rode Plads. Selv i dagslys var her utrolig flot. Her var fyldt med mennesker. Vi var inde i St. Basils katedral. Den var utrolig lille indefor, ikke fordi den udefra var searlig stor, men den var endnu mindre indenfor - jeg tror det skyldes at den er bygget op som ni kirker. Efter en god frokost tog vi hen til Tretyakov galleriet. Det var et museum med klassisk russisk kunst. Jeg maa nok indromme det ikke var noget der tiltalte mig meget, men nogle af billederne kunne Jane fortealle mig om, og det gjorde det straks mere speandende.
Herefter tog vi hjem til Jane for at spise lidt mad, det var ved at blive sent og den var ved at staa paa en klassisk russisk specialitet VODkA. Vi fik et par stykker af dem, og jeg maa indromme at det nok er den bedste jeg nogen sinde har smagt, om det saa r paa grund af omgivelserne eller om det er fordi de virkelig bare er bedre til at lave det, maa veare op til hvad du tror, jeg tror paa det sidste >D
Idag, d. 25/09/09, var dagen hvor jeg skulle mode min gruppe som jeg skal rejse med de neaste 23 dage. Vi er kun tre personer i alt, men det er okay. De to andre er fra Brasilien er virker til at veare nogle rigtig rare mennesker, saa det skal nok blive godt. Vi har hygget lidt rundt i byen idag, for at leare hinanden at kende, endvidere var i Cirkus her til aften, da det er noget Rusland er meget stolte over. Det var skam ogsaa et fantastisk show, og jeg har for forste gang i mit liv set en love i et cirkus, det fandt de to andre underhoende, da de troede det var lovligt i alle lande.
Saa nu tror jeg det er paa tide at gaa i seng. i kan tro jeg har det godt her paa begyndelsen af mine rejse. Jeg haaber hvorend i er, at i alle ogsaa har det godt.
Hilsen Per
In English
I will apologize for my English, but I used google translate. I thought it was better than nothing. Time is already going to fast here on my trip.
Then there was the final day when I was off on my journey as I had planned over the last many months. It have said goodbye to friends and family and butterflies came into my stomach. This especialle happend when I was standing at the airport in Copenhagen with my dad and sister and some friends: Patrick, Martin, Michael, Holm, Jeanette and Kathrine.
My first destination is Moscow, Russia. Many have reacted far differently about this country when they have hurt it is the start of my journey. I must however say that it is an incredibly intresting country, it is much more colorful than I had thought it would have been and people are smiling in the streets. It is not like my visit in Poland, or for that matter, Latvia, where people had forgotten their smile at home. When I arrived at the airport after a two-hour flight, I was surpriset over how easy it was to get through passport control - Russia is one of the countries with the most complex visa requirements, but still it was just as in Copenhagen airport.
When I had picked up my backpack was Jane and her brother there. Jane is one I have meet through CISV at my camp in Denmark in 2007 when I was a youth leader also called JC. It was incredibly nice to see her again, we got talking about old memories and heard how it went with each other on our way home to her (yes, I came right in the middle of the teeming life in Moscow, said the little twenty kilometers from the airport and to her home took an hour, so we had plenty of time to talk). After dinner, we went into the center of Moscow. I was booked into a hostel, so I could get the paper so I could stay legally in Moscow, and so the authorities in Russia can keep track of where the tourist are. Then we meet with some of Jane's friends. They were really nice and we had a good evening. Around 22 we went to the Red Square. It is Europe's largest sqaur. Here was incredibly beautiful. Infront of us stood St Basil's Cathedral, built up of 9 different churches, to the right of us was Kemlin, which are walls that surround the government buildings. Next to Kremlin was Lenin's burial, and believe it or not, you can come and see his body! and I was told that they sometimes must enter and cut his nails because they still are growing! To the left of us was a large shopping center with lights around its windows and doors so that it resembled Magasins fronts facing Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. then we went back home to Jane where I stayed (Hostlet is only to obtain the necessity of paper because it is easier and cheaper than the other options).
Yesterday, Thursday 24.09.09, stood it on the big excursion in Moscow. This time it should not just experienced things from the outside but we had a list of various museums, parks and cathedrals we wanted to explore. We started on Arbat st. it is one of the leangste pedestrian streets in Moscow, moreover, it is one of the ealdste streets, so here was incredibly pretty We passed a wall which is called the Wall of Peace. Here have several hundred people indicated something about peace, to the world, but also a famous Russian singer, who sang for peace. It was surrounded by an incredibly cool youth inviroment. Then we returned to Arbat st. where I bourght a Matreshka, probably the most classic Russian thing, a figure of tree. Then we went to the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. It was an incredible intresting musuem. There was a new exhibition by a group of young Russian artist who drew expressions of communism in Russia. It was really intresting and it was a clear story that appeared in each picture and it made a clear expression, so once again it was a really good experience. Then we visit an enormous cathedral - it is the one you see in the picture above - it was incredibly beautiful outside. Inside it was recently renovated so there was not much charm to it. I was very impressed with so many people who were here and it was not just tourists! People ran around to turn on light as they had bought in the cathedral and it seemed more like a meadow machine from the cathedral side. Now it was time to become a second visit at the Red Square. Even in daylight is it incredibly beautiful. Here was filled with people. We were in St. Basil's Cathedral. It was unbelievable small inside but not from the outside - I think it is because it is built as nine different churches. After a good lunch we went to the Tretyakov Gallery. It was a museum of classical Russian art. I should probably admit it was not something that appealed to me much, but some of the images could Jane tell all about and it made it defently more intresting.
Then we went home to Jane to eat some food, it was getting late and it was about time to a classic Russian specialty vodka! We got a few of them and I must admit that it is probably the best I've ever tasted, even if it s because of the surroundings or whether it is because they really just are better to make it I don't know - though I belive in the last idear >D
Today, on 25/09/09, days where I had to fashion my group that I must travel with the neaste 23 days. We are only three people in total, but that's okay. The other two are from Brazil and are very nice people, so it'll be good. We have chilled a little around the town today, to Learn each other, we also vent to a circus tonight, because it is something Russia is very proud of. It was also a really fantastic show, and I have for first time in my life seen a lion in a circus!!!
So now I think it's time to go to bed. I feel good here at the beginning of my journey. I hope wherever you are, you are doing good too.
Love Per
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