Family Reunion!

Here you see my "Moscow family" in some ways, just as I remember them -- how many nights we sat together drinking tea in the kitchen!  Keeping contacts with families over the years is one of the many benefits of Sister Cities Relationships.  There on the left is Paulina, who was born while my family was visiting their small Yakutsk apartment on a hot August day fifteen years ago, next to her is Ilya, whom I used to take to nursery school in the predawn darkness, then Alesha, one of my best English students, and his wife, Olya, who was a dancer in the Yakutsk National Dance Ensemble, and in front of them, Rosa Kapitonovna, Kapitolina Alexeeva's sister and my wonderful host for the many months I spent in Yakutsk.