Good News Everyone! The prolotheropy seems to be working so far and my legs are finally staring to feel better. Partially due to this I was able to walk around a bit today and take some pictures of the beautiful Russian beriozas in the park near my house

This was too perfect for me to pass up. Its a perfect example of old Russia on the right and new Russia on the left. 

My host family decided to try my exercises and I couldn't stop laughing. 

Capitain's Log
October 6, 2015
Wind: outside , Temperature: 7c , Demeanor: Normal

It has been two weeks since the rains and its is now unquestionable that summer has ended.  The air has turned crisp and the golden leaves or zolatiya osena as the natives call it have appeared everywhere. My contact with the native population has continued to go well and my host family has even seemed to have accepted me as a member of their family. What a beautiful and magical land this has indeed proven to be. There are cities, roads, and shops much like our own and yet behind this there is a history and a tradition that is so much deeper than anything we possess. These people have not yet forget that people once lived in the forests and that food can be produced without a factory. There is a history and even coming mythical about this place suggests it was the final sanctuary of the creatures of myth. Here too there time has past but it has not been so long that they have been completely forgotten.