russia 2...how original

Hello
Well I just spent about an hour writing a super cool update about the second half of my time in Russia. But I accidently erased it. Believe me it was really good. So now I really don't feel like spending that much time on it, I shall just summarize the rest of my time, or write about the important things.
YWAM St. Petersburg had a Love feast for us with traditional Russian food. We toured the city. Spent the day at the Hermitage ( a big famous art museum and saw paintings by Monet, DaVinci, Rembrandt, VanGoh and many others. This buliding is also what used to be called the winter palace (the place where the Romanovs lived)
We did programs in a whole bunch of prisons over Easter weekend. A sick womens one, boys aged 14-19, a girls home, a womens prison, and a mens prison. Overall they all went quite well.
And the other day we went to a Russian Bonya. Is where you sit in a super dooper hot sauna for a while and then you go into a lake with ice on it. It was a really good cultural experience. We got to hang out with some naked babooshkas which is always fun. Oh and you also get whipped with birch leaves which is enjoyable.
Yesterday right before we left St. Petersburg, me and Will took a last minute trip downtown, to take stealth pictures of things and people. Like I would pose for a picture and he would take a picture of someone behind me. It was funny, everyone probly knew what was happening but we had fun.
Then we went to the square in front of the hermitage and there was this big army, military, marine march thing going on. And I got will to go and stand in front of this very serious line of Military men and stike a weird pose, and it was so funny cuz I took a picture with his camera, and ya it will be an awesome shot. The serious men behind him, and then him. It was great, we are not sure why there was all this stuff going on, but if you hear about anything happening in Russia (St. Petersburg) on the 19th please tell me.
And last night we caught a night bus to Helsinki. It was quite uneventful except I got yelled at, at the Russian border. Apparantly they thought that I was trying to smuggle myself over the border. Slight translation and language difficulty. It was quite funny looking back. Now we are in Helsinki at the hostel, i am just chilling while the rest of my team catches up on sleep. Tomorrow we head to Poland, Lodz to be exact (pronounced Woodge)
In conclusion, I have been learing alot about different cultures and alot about me. God is really teaching me things, crazy things. BUt ya I should be off I will talk to you all later
Angee