"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance."- St. Peter. "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." - Jesus.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Photo album

The new art work on the other side of the music school. Perhaps Abigail will take classes here one day.


More snaps from our various forest walks.


Watch our for uncovered sunbathers.... I was more surprised than they were.


Our Evenki lessons in Katya's kitchen.


More snaps of the new New Russia, the dawn of suburbia for Russia's growing middle class.** Back a few years ago the Russian government were throwing around the figure of 26% of the population being middle class. (I used to define this as owning one's apartment and owning a car). Today a few years later the figure is more like 52%. Russia is rapidly changing.  Village life is worlds apart, and there are still many poor people in the city, but we are no longer anywhere near the rich segment of society, like we were 10 years ago.


**-While there is no universal definition for what constitutes the middle class due to varying income levels between advanced and emerging market economies (EMEs), but also within advanced emerging economies (Brazil, Poland, Mexico and Saudi Arabia) and secondary emerging economies (emerging Asia, Romania and Russia), growth in households with annual disposable incomes between US$5,000 and US$15,000 has been striking. Kazakhstan, Romania and Russia saw the fastest growth during 2000-2010 with over 50.0% of households in this category by 2010.

 (http://blog.euromonitor.com/2010/03/emerging-focus-rising-middle-class-in-emerging-markets.html)
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