Miguel's Teaching and Travel blog; Russia, Morocco, Senegal

A Community College professor's experiences serving as a Fulbright Scholar at the Stolypin Volga Region Institute of Administration in Saratov Russia in 2014 and as a Fulbright/Hays grantee in Senegal, West Africa in 2016; Includes a 2nd and 3rd trip in 2015 and 2017 to Saratov, and, in 2015, as part of a delegation to Morocco's Ministry of Education. Continues with an additional trip to Senegal(CAORC) in 2019 and a study abroad summer program at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus in 2019.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Russian Faces.

Forest NW of Saratov Russia, 5/2/2014.

Views, Mountain biking, Saratov, Russia.

Birch trees and wildflowers. Beautiful day mountain biking.

Mountain biking; Sergei prepping the bikes. A great little artesian well--all the locals fill up here.

Mountain biking! Nature!

Yesterday was May 1, a big Holiday in Russia and other parts of the world. Everybody pretty much has 4 days off. My friend Sergei invited me to go mountain biking in back in March when he was in an entrepreneurship class I taught for mid-level managers. He is a manager at a large regional gas company and gets to travel all over Russia. It was a beautiful day. He picked me up at my apartment around 9:30am and we drove to a large forest NW of town. We road on some nice trails for about 10 miles. Sergei shared his Dad’s bike with me, we had sandwiches, tea…..and even drank from a Russian artesian well. One of the best days I’ve had in Russia!