I am in meetings all day today with potential SEED mentoring
program participants as well as with site managers and executives.
Tomorrow, John and I get to do some sightseeing around St. Petersburg.
Last night, we went to a very good Russian style dinner at Senat
Restaurant. When the driver
took us home, we saw the Neva river sending up huge sheets of steam
into the frozen air. We also went by the heroic bronze statue
of Peter the Great on horseback. He does not have any spotlights on
him so the big wedge-shaped white rock he is riding up looms out of the
dark. We drove by the statue of
Catherine the Great standing tall on her pedestal in the middle of
the park in front of her palace.
It is a very strange
feeling to have the inside of my nose freeze as soon as
I step out of a car. Everyone walks very fast on the street and
they wrap up in coats and furs and scarves so only their noses
show. Monday, we fly to Tel Aviv where it will be at least 20 degrees
warmer.
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