Tourist Hotel Kiev

... the museum of Theatre and Music ( pity it was just in russian, but it was fun looking at the pictures), and a museum of ethnography. And just walking around the grounds took me a few hours. And at least I did not buy a scarf for nothing, for in ukraine women still need to cover their heads when they enter a church.

... to drive it all the way up to Estonia.

We are printing 1500 copies of the booklets about the Holy Days. Our group of four teaching English will bring back 200 copies for immediate use. The rest will be printed and delivered to Estonia.

We discussed Vasyl Mondich’s evangelistic travels and the need to buy a church building in central Ukraine. He gave his perspective about ...

Today we went to see the Mariinski Palace. A new metro ride and we made out just perfect. We walked through Mariinski Park and then found the Palace. It was built to echo the Palace of Versailes in minature. It is closed for renovations. We do walk around and look at the outside as much as we can see before it is boarded up. We are right next to the Dynamo Football (soccer) Teams Stadium. It doesn't look too ...

... of the culture." In 10 cases examined by the newspap**, the Peace Corps misled or failed to provide essential details to families, the public or oth** volunte**s about the circumstances of how volunte**s died. Sev**al families that lost relatives as many as 30 years ago learned critical details about the deaths from the Dayton Daily News. "They wouldn't tell us nothing," said Paul Fink, who learned key details about the death of his 22-year-old sist** from the Daily News ...

... civilians, of whom a significant number were Jews,[4] were murdered by the Nazis there during World War II.[1][5] In today's Kiev, Babi Yar is located at the juncture of Kurenivka, Lukianivka and Syrets raions ...

... no one - just a powerless Ukraine (quite a jolt for self esteem when you think about it) At the end of August we have a three week vacation. My plan is to visit 10 different cities/towns/villages in 13 or 14 days. Traveling will be by bus and train. I hope to visit many of my PC friends. The American English Center where I work has schools in 3 of the towns and I hope to engage teachers with maps and knowledge for advice and camaraderie. I ...

... the famous Khreshchatyk St back towards Independance Square. We stopped by the post office to try to place some international calls home, as we hadn't had any contact with home yet, and wanted to assure them all we were fine. Mom and Lani both had success, I got an answering machine. After that is was back to the train station to pick up our bags, where we were recognized immediately, and Dima almost choked over the sheer number and size of our bags. We ...

... of democracy was introduced until a second round of house cleaning was needed after questionable elections in 2004. Amazingly, Kiev is the first part of the former USSR where I fairly quickly came to the conclusion "I could live here". The city is clean (in its centre) and 'friendly enough' (in a relative sense), grand yet walkable, and the food - for those with simple peasant tastes - is excellent, as my daily consumption of 900 calories worth of cherry dumplings ...

... 4. Many firefighters were sent in to put out the fire with no knowledge of the danger. 5. The public in the area were not evacuated until 36hours after the accident. Many got leathal doses of radiation. 6. 600,000 people were involved in liquating the problem, many of them onsite and without adequate protection. You can see smiles on the faces of the workers to pick ...

... and you could tell it was a place of pilgrimage. Almost everyone was stopping in front of each case, saying a silent prayer and then kissing the glass. The second cave was more packed and seemed to, while having lots of people there for religious reasons, have almost as many tourists. Once out of the caves, we walked around the monastery for a bit and got a few pictures before heading back to the street. We had a glass of Kvass, which is a fermented drink that is sold from big ...