Kozatsky Kiev

... to their IPods and not a one have the same playlist. Occasionally they switch IPods and the singing starts anew with 4 songs still going on at once. What a cacophony but it was fun to see them enjoy themselves so much. They are actually in the Ukraine studying but I never did find out studying what as they all starting singing again. How nice to be serenaded down the line from Kiev to Kharkov.

... us first and then we will be shown files of available children. From those available children if there are any that we really are interested in and want to become a part of our family, we will go to visit their orphanage. If the orphanage is here near Kiev, the capital, then we will probably stay in this apartment. If the orphanage is very far away then we will go on a train sometime on Tuesday to go visit the child(ren). Once we visit the ...

... walked to the Opera House. They were advertising several operas and ballets, but, unfortunately, they don't premier till September. We then walked to the mercantile quarter of Podil. Someone built a cafe, called the overlook cafe, on the knoll overlooking the city. However, we discovered another overlook across the street. We walked down to the Dnipro River and sat for a while at a "Coke Cola" tent that sold beer and Cokes. It was a beautiful setting.

... I am still sure that I was the only non Ukrainian on the plane and I received multiple curious looks. The people around me treated the airplane ride like a party. There was mingling between rows and plenty of laughter. Staying seated with your seat belt fastened did not apply on this flight. Midway through the flight one of the flight attendants confiscated a 40 of hard liquor from two young men and a middle aged man who had snuck the bottle unboard and ...

... we saw him again later! he is no longer just swedish guy, however i will continue to call him Swedish guy cause its funny i hung around him for a day and a half and never got his name, but the time we hung out it was too late to ask and not feel like an ass! ha ha I'm having a great time things are working out very well!! yay Be in touch soon! hope you are all doing well... And Sam, its damn hard not to pee on your feet!! ha ha

... wrote to Rob**ts again, saying he was "wrestling with Peace Corps" to get funds for a new case: a January 2003 rape and abduction involving two female volunte**s in Guatemala. "I have reminded Peace Corps-Washington that safety and security for the Peace Corps volunte**s includes keeping thugs in jail, but they have been unresponsive, especially to your case," Reilly wrote. "So it doesn't look good." SECRECY MASKS DANGER TO VOLUNTEERS Blood ran down the face of 24-year ...

... hit the wall with my shoulder. I do remember a clicking noise and looked to see a big red button behind me on the wall about the same time as the train came to a screeching halt. Doh! Someone was saying something in Romanian through the little speaker next to the emergency stop button and I tried to look inconspicuous as I backed away into the next car. About a minute later a metro worker showed up and said something into ...

We arrived on Ukraine's Independence Day. After getting off the plane there was mass havoc at customs - too may people and not enough workers. People were all bunched in together, no lines, packed in from front to back - at one point the police (or maybe military showed up) we meet some people from our boat and tried to make the best of it while others were getting, shall we say grumpy... one guy who started off swearing and complaining in the ...

... would have to take an additional 16 hour train ride. There is no hot water. According to the web, 38% of the men are alcoholics, 2 of 10 of the women have the same affliction. Mail-order bride websites are a big industry along with a small milk production business and something on a furniture production. They set me up with a divorced woman who had just started her non-profit and getting me was her second project. Her focus was on women's rights ...

Arno writing: Twenty three hours. Yes, that's how long it was from the time I left the apartment in Kiev to the time I got home. As I was leaving a Ukraine Customs Official asked me how much money I was bringing back. I told him the truth, only 6 bucks. He repeated, "Only six dollars?" and then let me go. The trip home wasn't too bad. I got to see a beautiful sunset on the ...