Domus Kiev

... very happy that we were going to get to go back to Kiev and get home, but I also was crying because I spent all day with the Roselana's, playing with Talia, and I just realized how much I was going to miss them! Since we got Talia home on Friday Roselana basically helped with Talia nonstop! She helped rock her to sleep, speaking to her in Ukrainian. She made all of Talia's meals and helped her eat. Roselana helped her on the ...

... I live in the school; they built an apartment for me. I have a bathroom with a toilet and shower and hot water. I have hot plates to cook on and a refrigerator. I don't have heat yet...since it's Ukraine...we have centralized heating and they will not turn it on until the 26th of October. In the meantime, I have a space heater that does the trick. It's cold in the morning, but it's okay. My town and my area are known for its beautiful nature. We have a gorgeous river and forest ...

... are fasting, but they can eat honey. There were honey vendors on the grounds of the monastary on what seemed like at least a quarter of a mile. Bees and tourists were everywhere. The museum was interesting and has ancient jewelry found in or made in Ukraine. Some of it is around 2500 years old! Alot of the jewelry is well crafted and some has great detail work ...

... yay! I moved to my new town last Monday after my long recovery. I stayed in the sick bay at Peace Corps Office for a whole week...they make sure that you are completely recovered before sending you on your way. I arrived late on Monday...almost 11:00pm with my counterpart and the taxi driver...my house is far from town (almost 25 minutes walking.) I unpacked that night and awoke the next morning for several meetings with the school ...

... there is a statue of Bohden Chmelnytsky, a famous distant relative of Kathy and Terry our friends at home! We begin to look for a place to each and come across a fire hall. We go in and meet a rookie and the captain, who doesn't speak English, and isn't really interested in us. A young chap shows us the equipment and tries to answer our questions. Len gives him a Winnipeg patch and he is thrilled. Len gives one to another chap and he gets ...

... into the bushes a ways, about 20 feet, and then all four of them raped h**. It was a nightmare. It was a national park at 9 o'clock on Christmas Eve in the daylight," Rob**ts said. "I could not see, but I could hear, you know, moaning. They would take turns watching me, even though I was tied to the tree, holding a machete to my head. "I thought I was going to die." Eight months aft** the Decemb** 2000 attack, Rob**ts saw the photographs of two carjack**s in a newspap** and ...

... on the streets. The food was good and the local beer was superb. No complaints here. I did happen across the "Architectural" (History) museum on a back street near a big park and went inside. All the signs were in the Cyrillic alphabet so I couldn't read anything but each wing of the huge museum had a babushka (older lady) assigned to follow me around and turn on the lights as I got to each different section of displays. I ...

August 25, 2008 - Independence Day and a Military Parade!! Ukraine is at the epicenter of the great West - East meeting of the minds! With the Georgian war going on, Ukraine is even more in the news. According to students, this is Ukraine's first military parade since the Orange Revolution in 1992! It was very cool to see all the military branches march down Kreshatick Street. It is my understanding that the Ukraine Military is very critically ...

... supply of coal, and its proximity to iron ore and the River Luhan, for which it was first named. Then she hired Scotsman Charles Gascoigne - an international expert in ironworks to come and set up the city's first factories. Since the tsarina's time, the city has officially changed its name four times but spent most of the 20th century as Voroshilovgrad (Voroshilov was Stalin's darling general from WWII, the man that Khruschev often referred to as a ...

... t play the game and pay some people off their new trucks are illegal. I ask you, in what other country could this type of debauchery occur? I don't even think China could get away with that for very long...um China was a bad example but you know what I mean. I will definitely go back to Ukraine but next time it will be during the summer and somewhere like Odessa in the south. Thanks to Jason and Sean for all the fun and I will definitely return the favor someday.