This weekend is the SeaFest. They say a million people visit for this, and ground zero is about 50 feet from our apartment. So...we are going to Liepaja, Latvia on Saturday. Then we depart Sunday morning.
Even if I want to, there won't be a lot of opportunities to blog.
Our time here has been good and interesting.
We had a long conversation with the Dean last night, and we raised some of the issues (about church and faith) that I've mentioned here. It was a quite good conversation, and she acknowledged that since they want to accept diversity, they are a bit less cohesive than a denomination-bound institution.
They are also still in the institutionalization process pretty seriously. The Board wants to build new buildings, while the Dean knows they need a sustainable model for getting and keeping faculty. They are also still in the process of getting accreditation for some of their academic programs. While some of these basic things remain in development, they're still getting aggressive about reaching out to students and institutions around the region and even into Asia.
I asked her if she thought that LCC was institutionalized enough that she was comfortable that it would reliably endure, she said no.
So, an exciting time for the college/university.
A few random pictures....
The driver who took us on the excursion last Saturday. He was the friendliest bus driver I've seen in Lithuania.
This church is actually the central point on this "Passion Road" that people come and walk every July. The guide who explained this to us used to hold underground Masses during the Soviet period.
Sandy on the tour of the Passion Road. The guy on the far left is from Chicago...both sets of grandparents fled just before the Soviet police came for them. Thanks for reading...I hope you enjoyed it some. I know I enjoyed writing it. Everything seemed strangely more "real" when I wrote about it...like it all became more substantive and substantial by telling somebody.
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