Meetings, Greetings, and some restrictions

So, I ended up meeting with Great Uncle Johnny at a Baptist seminary here. Me and the director looked an a christian academy before we met Uncle Johnny and got to tour that, so I feel like I got a good view into protestant education here in Russia. Very small modest buildings with few (70-20) students. We had a nice chat all three of us and went on our ways. We saw the church of Christ our Savior on Epiphany. That was interesting, I do enjoy these eastern orthodox churches. We also saw a modern art gallery, and Tolstoy's winter house. All interesting things. I also on the day I met uncle Johnny I was told to call my friend who currently resides in Moscow, Alex(I met her as an exchange student in the States). So tonight we met and ate together. I had caviar for the first time with her and her friend Sasha(they are both named Alexandra, Sasha is short for Alexandra). It was a very interesting conversation and Hopefully I will meet with them both again before I leave. They mentioned that they might meet me in St. Petersburg at the end. I head to the university now. The internet there is very low tech. I get 300 meg upload and download per month, so I don't think I'll be video chatting anytime soon. If you really want to get in on the video chat I may have to find some sort of internet cafe, and that might be a little awkward. Either way I don't think I'll have internet for a week or so as we get set up at the university. I am neither excited or nervous about studying. I'm just perplexed at how to function with that little connectivity and confused at the point that they want us to become well involved with the Russians while they try to shelter us severely. As of now I'm jut more confused than anything.