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Public & World Affairs Club Field Trips:
in politics, world affairs, and law.
Compiled by Jeremy Lewis; last updated 15 Nov '00.
International Studies Travel Activities:
Ukraine Orphanages Trip, July 2000.
(photos supplied by David Abbott)

David Abbott '01, HC's first International Studies major, set up a trip through The Least of These, a Christian group assisting orphans in the Ukraine and Crimea, summer 2000. 

David with some of the orphans in a sanatorium for respiratory problems in Yeupatoria, Crimean Peninsular.

The group played sports and gave puppet theatre shows to children unable to speak English.  The Crimean resort area is well known in the West for the Crimean war and its Charge of the Light Brigade, the second world war conference of Stalin, Churchilll and Roosevelt -- and an unfortunate day in the life of Napoleon (see below).

A castle on the coast at Yalta, the city famous for the second world war conference and agreement between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt.

A mountain peeks through the crimean trees.

The crew included Joyelle Gardner '01 (History & Education major, bottom center, in black), David Abbott (top right, with goatee and cool shades).  The summer palace courtyard is where the famous picture of the wartime leaders was taken.

David in front of the Tsar's summer palace, where the WW2 conference was held.

more mountains around Yalta.

Apparently these cannonballs mark the spot where Napoleon lost his eyeball.

Taking possession of yet another castle in Yalta.

David and Tommy Benz ('03, HC Int. Business major) at play.

Joyelle and David relaxing on the beach by the Black sea.

David tries to look inconspicuous.

Here are some of David's items of booty from the street markets of Kiev: the star medal is believed to be a soldier's campaign medal from the Afghan war; the round one with striped ribbon is older, said to be from the Great Patriotic War (second world war).  The monetary note or bill is one (G)hryvna, equivalent to about twenty US cents.  The coin is 50 Kopeks, about a US dime.