Monday, August 30, 2010

From South Canaan

At the suggestion of my godfather I am writing a blog about my time at Saint Tikhon's Seminary. I hope it will be a way to share news from my life and keep in touch with so many loved ones that my family and I have left behind when we moved to to Pennsylvania. The seminary is located in a very small town in Northeastern Pennsylvania named South Canaan nestled in the Pocono mountains. You really will miss it if you blink. There is a post office, gas station, and a phone company; that's it. The Seminary is located adjacent to the oldest orthodox monastery in North America, founded in 1905. The Seminary was founded in 1938. It is beautiful country. We can see the mountains from our home and at night the stars are brilliant. We live on a road called Jubinksy. I find the name funny. The home is over a hundred years old and has a dungeon for a basement. After exploring the property a bit I found a spring coming up out of the ground in our back yard! Apparently it is the same spring that feeds our well. So looks like will be selling bottled spring water to pay for seminary. Elizabeth's father, Tim, met us at our new home to help unpack. Thank the Lord! We had plenty of help packing up, but I didn't consider how much work unpacking would be; and more stressful. Our new landlords the McCormicks are hospitable; they even helped us unpack. They also have a seven year old son whom Elias already loves to play with. Elias thinks he is so cool having an older boy to play with. I will post pictures soon.