Impressa Kiev

... still currently in use as well. In addition to houses, they have collected a lot of windmills and also churches from the small various villages.

It was quite a nice day and there were many locals visiting as well and picnicking there, flying kites, riding horses and enjoying the fine weather. We walked down the hill to the first village and the Good Friday church. In general ...

... Once we got to the building we waited on the steps with Zhenia. He was very friendly and kind with everyone who worked there and seemed to really know his way around. We didn't actually get to go into the room to be shown files until around 10 after 11 because the couple that was in there before us must have had some trouble making their decision. So we just had to stand there on the steps feeling anxious and confused as everyone was ...

... 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.

... over the city.

Getting off the airplane interesting: people were unbuckled and out of there seats as soon as we touched the ground. As we taxied the flight attendants tried in vain to get people to stay in their steats. We exited the plane and everyone was crammed into a very tiny bus and taken to customs. The BO on the bus and in Ukraine in general was a little overwhelming.

Customs was my first taste of an old soviet style building. There ...

... ve been reading about! Our train tonight is a night one, and it'll take about 11 hours... time to experience the train system in Ukraine i'm sure it'll be well, interesting! ha ha. Not sure if it'll be as easy to reach a computer there, i'll find out then. I figure i'll be spending a few days in the west just seeing how things go! Each day brings new things!! Oh Swedish guys name is Dan, ha ha Charlene ended up asking him ...

... Mindy Day Hodges of Los Angeles, as h** attack** continued to beat h** on a street in Bamako, the capital of Mali. He started undoing his belt and lifted h** dress. She was able to escape. A Peace Corps official in Mali wanted to keep the 1997 assault on Hodges "in-house" and initially didn't notify the U.S. embassy, according to a handwritten Peace Corps document obtained aft** the Daily News filed a lawsuit against the agency. The Peace Corps kept information on many ...

American Christmas was shared with 12 of my Ukrainian Students at my place.
Nothing a bit of champagne and vodka and some decorations from home won't cheer up.

New Years Eve on Kreschatik

The thermometer was reading just about 12 degrees, the sky clear and people were joyous. Kreschatik (the 5th Avenue/Pennsylvania Avenue of Ukraine) was filled with people adorned with tinsel, light up ears and sabers, colorful wigs, thousands of bottles ...

... and cruise tickets (some people were concerned about hading over their passports - I thought it was great, I wouldn't have to worry about loosing it or having it stolen while it was locked away in their safe). She explained to us that when we got to the boat our luggage would be brought to our rooms. In our rooms our keys would be in our doors and in our cabins we would find our trip "passports" they were basically the size of a ...

... her work site, cold water only. This worries me in that I doubt my old knee injury would hold up in the winter with lack of plowing, salting and early darkness. She is gone this summer then back to the states. I can't even begin to say how this assignment left me feeling. Nothing in the way I pictured my "Cultural Resource/Heritage Center" to be like. Peace Corps training managers also told us that as of this year, there will be no further site ...

... had no idea what show we would see. It turned out to be Mary Poppins on ice. It was pretty good. I just wish Anastasia had been with us. Yesterday it snowed pretty hard, but today it was sunny and bitterly cold. We ate dinner at a Ukraine cafeteria. This will probably be the last blog I do for a while as I will be returning soon. Hopefully Lancie will be able to retun on the 15th- the date of her return ticket.