40 Let Pobedy (40 Years of Victory) Minsk

Good roads, clear streets and frightened people - that was my impressions about Minsk.
I was shoked by the level of inflation - 10 USD is approximately 28000 their currency.
As to pleasent things, I like their sweets, it's realy delicious.
I can't say that everything bad - people gently call their president "batko" but prefer not to speak about him. I heard this topic might cost 6 years of prison.
I don't know why, but I felt like I return back in USSA.

... Read War and Peace) After that we were dropped off in Arbat street. This is now a pedestrian mall. We had dinner there. It is very different from the place we saw in 1980. We then went on a Moscow by night tour. This took us around the city and up to what they now call the Sparrow Hills but which we knew as Lenin Hills. We had a great view of the Olympic Stadium and the University. We then went to Swan Lake which is situated next to Novodice Cathedral. Our final ...

My second week at work went very well. Barb and I were very happy to make the switch to working days this week! For one, we are both day people and struggle to stay up all night, but two, there were a lot of new things that go on during the day shift that never happened at night. First thing in the morning all the patients get a chest XRay and certain patients get an EKG. Then, the line RN comes around and changes all of the ...

Today was the teams second day off and we spent our day touring the countryside of Belarus (sorry, I cannot remember the names of the cities). It turned out to be another beautiful day outside and the leaves hear are all turning the most gorgeous colors of orange, yellow, and red. I LOVE the Fall!! We basically just walked around a couple parks, toured a ...

Today I was able to walk around outside for a little bit before going into work. You will notice from the pictures that most of the buildings are very modern, and the city itself is extremely clean. During WWII, 90% of the city was destroyed and has since been rebuilt- hence the modern look. There are lots of beautiful flowers all along the streets and there are MANY monuments built in ...

... they only have ampules, no vials) and mix 12.5cc of drug with 7.5cc NS for a total of 20, then run it at the appropriate rate... the only problem with this, is how do you know how many mcg/kg/" it is going at?!!! Barb and I were able to make a formula to figure it out, but I was very surprised that the nurses don't routinely do this- Maria said not to worry about it because it was "the doctor's respsonsibilty ...

... the Red Army. Between 1939 and 1945, 25% of Belarus's population was killed, many in the 200 plus concentration camps the Nazis set up. The museum is wholly in Russian, but the pictures do an excellent job of conveying the misery and destruction of the occupation. Particularly harrowing are the shots of hangings in recognizable Minsk locations, the dead holding signs reading "I am a partisan. I shot at German soldiers." What a terrible thing to come across on ...

... perestroika, and from all I've heard, Belarus is the closest you can come to visiting the old Soviet Union. I couldn't pass that up. Besides, quotes from my guidebook such as, "expect to spend lots of time shouting at people through very small holes in very big windows," or its description of the police as "corrupt members of the state machine who carry large sticks," just made the place sound irresistible. But visiting Belarus is not easy. Virtually every needs a ...

... out to meet my 2nd partner in crime from the train. So we skimmed the highlights, and laughed and joked at mania of the world around us.. wedding and tourist intermingling, cars dodging and weaving through traffic and pedestrians, 2 crashes were witnessed in the space of as many hours, so we decided to strolled off away from the madness and towards the river and fortress, the river ...

... we weren't in a very big city! While we were in the church there was a service going on and it was nice to see the church being used. After we got out of the church it was already lunch, so we drove to a place we where we were given 15 minutes to use the washroom and grab lunch. Like that was going to happen! As we were walking to the restaurant Chris was a couple steps ahead of me, and most people were amazed at how well he was doing considering how drunk he'd ...