We finally arrived in Moscow after taking a train for 16
hours from Riga, Latvia all the way to Moscow. Moscow is an amazing city!
Buildings are huge and old. Traffic is just crazy with its brand new Mercedes
Benz and BMWs zipping all over the place. We even saw a brand new Ferrari on
the way to our first corporate visit.
First we had to change into our corporate dress on the train
(no showers) and head straight to our first corporate visit, Barclay Capital. Barclay
is a major banking corporation that deals with huge investments for large
companies or for facilitating mergers and acquisitions for large companies. A
lot of money goes through this office and it was amazing that we had the chance
to visit. We were also told that our representative was a Christian and that we
should ask him questions accordingly. Turns out, he is a higher up employee for
the company and told an amazing story about his faith and his work.
After this we went from Barclay’s to KPMG, the largest
accounting services firm in the world. It turns out that one of the partners
for the firm is a Christian also! And he took about 6 hours out of his day to
spend with us! The partner of a multi-billion dollar firm, who usually works 11
hours a day, spent the majority of his day with a bunch of college students.
This man was amazing. The advice he was giving us was worth pure gold. He
wasn’t telling us much about his company, but he was giving us lifelong advice
on how he got to where he is today and how he still has his faith as his number
one priority. Once we ran out of time asking him questions in the conference
room, he said he would come with us where we were eating for dinner!! Overall,
it was amazing to get to here this man’s advice and have him spend so much time
with us. 
After all of this was done, we finally got to go to the
Russian circus! They didn’t let us take pictures but it was a great show! Bears
that could do handstands, Monkeys that did flips, dogs that were trained to
dance, and acrobats that flew through the air. It was very well done and
entertaining at the same time. 