Young Single Adult Conference!

May 24, 2011- We took a 2 hour bus ride through the most gorgeous mountains overlooking the Black Sea.  Finally we arrived in Sevastopal and it was buisness as usual.  We were so completely lost.  All we knew was we needed to find a bus that would take us downtown.

We were quite the site walking back and forth not knowing where to go.  We finally chose a bus to get on but we had no idea when we needed to get off.  We ended up getting off late so we had to backtrack. From there we had to catch a ferry.  We found the dock alright but we had no idea where to buy our tickets or where we needed to wait to get onto the ferry.  There was a little boy nearby with his mom who happened to know some English and he helped us get on the ferry. The waves

 were at high tide so the boat was rocking like crazy! It was a super short ride but really fun.  We got off the ferry and all we knew was that we needed to find a bus to take us to Marsukoba.  Where that bus was we had no idea!  We walked around a bit then waited at what we thought was a bus stop.  Twenty five minutes later we decided to walk up further to find a bus.  We flagged down 2 buses but niehter of them knew what Marsukoba was.  We were at a 

complete loss at what to do or where to go.  I have never felt so hopeless in my life! We were starting to 

give up hope of ever getting to the YSA conference when a bus came up and knew where to take us.  He drove us to a bus station where we got on another bus that took us to Marsukoba.  We finally found the conference! I have never been so excited to arrive somewhere.   Once there we had to register and get into our rooms.  Ameri and I were rooming together.  The room was in this little cabin with two beds.  After we got settled in we headed down to dinner to find our groups.

I was in group 'siem' or seven.  We were all given different groups... which made things really hard because we don't speak any russian and barely any of the people there spoke any english.  After dinner there was a fireside but 

Auvi, Derrik, and I decided to go down to the beach and watch the sunset instead.  It was absolutely beautiful! I felt like I was inHawaii again!  Afterwards we headed back up for a dance, it was Greek themed so everyone was dressed up in togas.

  It was a pretty fun dance despite the fact they kept the lights on.  The next day the sun woke me up and I headed down to breakfast.  Our rooms were so freezing, it was warmer outside at 7am then in our room under our blankets! Kind of ridiculous.  After breakfast there was a seminar then later we headed down to the beach.  It was kind of chilly outside so we 

were sitting on the beach in pants, shirt, jacket and tennis shoes! It felt so wrong but it was still really fun! That night the temple president held a fireside, it was on preparing yourself to go to the temple.  It was a really

 cool talk, and he spoke in English so that was really nice for us.  Afterwards we had dinner then went straight to the talent show.  It was interesting to see a talent show in Russian.  We didn't understand anything but it was still fun! They ended the night with

 another dance which was so fun.  Then we headed to bed for another cold night in our cabins.  The next morning we got up and ate breakfast and then packed up and headed back to Sevastopal.  This time some people from the camp helped us get a taxi which was so nice! We made it back to the train station then took the 15 hour bus ride back to Kyiv.  It was so nice to be back in a nice bed with home cooked meals.  The vacation was very much needed and I loved every moment of it! I can't believe how many places I have been able to travel to! Only a few more weeks until I go home!