Express Kiev

... Talia a bath again tonight with Scotts help. It was still a lot of screaming, but I think we are making progress. haha. <br><br>Scott then ran to the grocery for a few things and picked us up some more McDonalds burgers! Yes! I feel like I have eaten more today than I have in the past week! When Scott got back another family that is here from Medina, Ohio came down to our flat and chatted with us. They shared their frustrations in ...

... she was going to feed me. So I ate dinner with her and it was fascinating. I ate soup, kasha, tomatoes, and I found the best cheese yet in Ukraine. To top it off, she gave me a chicken (frozen) and said it was good for borshch. Later that week, I made borshch for the first time, and it turned out all right. <br><br>I didn't expect for my service to turn out like it has so far...but I am happy in my current situation...and that's important. <br><br>More stories to come...<br><br>Christy

... and has a few American TV stations. We ate dinner at the Patio Pizza Restaurant. It is one of the better restaurants I've eaten at in Kiev. It has great Italian food, good service, and reasonable prices. We will go back! It is located right next to a TGI Fridays just off Kreschatik Street. Inside the restaurants actually connect and they are owned by the same company.

... his parents. They were absolutely overjoyed to see us (still don't know why) and his mother would not stop kissing us both. They took us around their lovely little garden/farm before we went in for some of their fresh home-produced honey, fresh strawberries and some home-made walnut vodka. It was quite wonderful. <br> <br><br>No sooner were we back at Pasha's grandparent's than it was time for lunch and more borsh. After lunch we were stuffed and exhausted and ...

... 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 ...

... if they came to the village, which was once a year, or when I went to Dar es Salaam (the capital), which was a 12- to 14-hour bus trip. "I was the first one to be in the village. They shouldn't have sent me. I was a young female sent to this village wh**e th**e w**e no oth** volunte**s....It wasn't a good situation." A March 2001 inspector gen**al's report found that the housing for 17 of 32 newly arriving volunte**s in Mozambique didn't meet minimum Peace Corps safety and ...

... city was out in the plaza in front of where the Gen'l Lee was docked. Kids on roller blades and riding go karts where everywhere while some local adults were participating in Ukrainian dancing. We visited the Lavidia palace where the famed Yalta conference took place between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill during WWII. This palace was an old summer residence of the Tsar. The final stop on the river cruise was a sail across ...

... up late in the night to listen to my Ipod and got yelled at. I was so mad, I almost said," Look, buddy, I paid the same price as you and if your friend can saw away over there then I can dance in the middle of the room if I want to." But I didn't because I am practicing keeping my cool, which is a new thing for me and I quite like it. Kristen got a cot that was on the back balcony. It was an old cot and everytime she moved another wood slat fell out ...

... toes or pushy you stand there forever. In the caves they were as bad but this was in very narrow passage ways and most of them had candles in their hands. I was quickly losing my patience with all of them but managed to get out of the caves without committing the crime of murder. At the monastery I also had the poor signage issue again. Just one or two signs in English at key points would be so beneficial. Instead I ended up trying to translate the ...

I have been to many cold places in recent years and even grew up in a region with four distinct seasons, but Kyiv was a bit too much. It isn't so much that the high was something like 15 degrees, it was more the difference between my 75 degree Baghdad weather. My Baghdad friend Jason, who is now headed to Chengdu if you want to look him up, has a good friend Sean who is working in Ukraine. Sean is one of those few high quality determined people that go one to ...