Podol Plaza Hotel Kiev

Must have been one heck of a rally last night. I went out of the apartment at 4 p.m. to hunt down the local grocery store and find some dinner. People were walking around the corner of my building to the pedestrian subway, crossing under the street and then walking down the block to the main street. It was crowded when I went through the pedestrian subway. Coming back around 45 minutes later, I had to fight my way ...

... to have to pay for a washing machine when he started tinkering with it, but then he got the door open, got my clothes out and everything is fine! <br><br>We have many emotions going into tonight and tomorrow. I just pray that whatever happens is God's will and that we can come together and make the best decision for us and our family. We will update as soon as we know something tomorrow. Until then, it is off to bed!<br><br>Lauren and Scott<br>

Arno writing:We found out that our second appointment to see children available for adoption probably won't be till Tuesday. <br> Yesterday we went to the Pyrohouse Museum of Folk Architecture. We caught the metro from Maiden stop on Independence Square all the way out. We then had to catch a small yellow minibus to the museum. These minibuses are everywhere and cost 2 grivna/person to ride. You just give the money to the driver. The museum is an open ...

... imposing mother statues, the Great Patriotic war memorial and the recently built memorial to the great hunger. The mother statue is a gigantic, titanum (apparently radioactive from the aftereffects of chernboyl) monstrosity donated by Russian to Ukraine. It seems to say "I will be watching you" and "my forty foot sword will cut you in half if you forget me." The Great Patriotic war memorial was distinctly soviet. I was most moved by the monument to the great ...

... try partner apartments, www.kievrent.net, www.hotelservice.kiev.ua or google apartments for rent. Once settle in and the formalities out of the way, the woman doesn't speak English and of course our Ukraine/Russian is non existent, we head out looking for a restaurant for diner. We are looking for local food, but end up in an Italian Restaurant. Oh, well, we have some pork, something we haven't had for over 3 months. It was good.

... for." In 1999, when an alleged assault in Kh**son, Ukraine, gen**ated negative publicity for the Peace Corps, agency officials instructed volunte**s to "not discuss this situation with the media," and to ask the victim not to make any public statements. The incident, according to Ukraine police, involved two volunte**s taken into custody aft** they got off a train drunk, laughing and cursing as one of them fell to the ground at the city's main station. A male volunte ...

... scattered around the square and I imagine the street crews in the morning were kept very busy with the clutter that remained. <br><br> On the way back home at 1:30 I entered the Metro a bit nervous after leaving my younger friends to party the whole night and heading home solo. I was lucky enough to be near a couple in their 60's with a tambourine/drum and an accordion player with a couple of their buddies who also had finished the party on the square ...

... channels (CNN, BBC, EuroNews) and a remote with a sleep timer (the menu on the TV was not in English, that was kind of cool - you can believe I still figured out how to set the sleep timer) some cabinets above the tucked away bed and a double closet. It was a comfy room - think dorm room. We set off to explore before dinner and returned for our briefing and champaign toast at 7pm. We searched out a grocery store (weather shorts/capris and ...

... good by to my girls, gave away most of my worldly goods and went back to school for the Masters Degree in Community Economic Development and left all known way of life and friends to be able to "positively change the world". All the other "over 50" volunteers I spoke with were placed closer to populated areas and medical facilities. The Peace Corps Ukraine said this is not true and each year the sites are smaller and more remote and isolated due to ...

... new metro route and we saw something neat on the way back. On the walls of the subway tunnel they put alot of photo frames, so when the subway goes by at a high rate of speed, the photos turn into a movie. It showed different animals in action like a cheetah running. We ate dinner at Pizza Uno again. Afterwards Lancie's sweet tooth got the better of her and she bought $14.00 worth of gelato in the underground mall.