Flight itinerary!

Ok, everything is finally settled and confirmed, so I feel confident that putting it up here will not jinx anything. (Yes, I'm highly superstitious when it comes to flying... at least the parts that involves tickets and security). My itinerary is as follows:

Outbound:

Friday, May 14th

-Denver to La Guardia, 7:00 am to 12:49 pm, Frontier # 506

-JFK to Moscow, 7:00 pm to 12:30 pm, Aeroflot # SU316 (Now Sat, May 15th)

-Moscow to St. Petersburg, 4:25 pm to 5:50 pm, Aeroflot # SU847

Returning:

Saturday, June 26th

-St. Petersburg to Moscow, 6:15 am to 7:35 am, Aeroflot # SU858

-Moscow to JFK, 10:05 am to 12:20 pm, Aeroflot # SU313

-La Guardia to Denver, 5:45 pm to 8:11 pm, US AIrways #US6215

The airport in Moscow is the Sheremetyevo International Airport, just in case anyone is interested. As you can see, I'm going to be traveling for 28 hours each way, but either skipping a day or staying in the same day, depending on which way I'm going. This ought to be highly, highly interesting. :)

Preparation Step 1: Scheduling

Despite the late start on this method of tracking myself for family and friends, there's still a lot that's been going on and still has yet to be prepared! The main focus of this blog is to keep everyone up to date on what will happen in Russia this summer, but should my travels continue after graduation, no doubt it'll keep being updated.

So to start with: why Russia? I've wanted to work as a translator for quite some time, but unfortunately, there's not much call in America for French translation. So, while I'm not dropping my French studies, I'm adding Russian to the mix. This semester is my first introduction to the language, and as usual, I decided to plunge right in and head to Russia for a true cultural experience! I'll be in Saint Petersburg (Сaинт Ретербург if you go with the cyrillic spelling!) from May 14th to June 26th, with my time split between (very intense) language lessons and soaking in the culture. Our itinerary is going to be very busy, including such things as museums, palaces, ballets and operas.