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Training
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So I'm here in Ukraine. The training in Chicago went pretty quickly. There was a lot of basic logistics that we all went over. Needless to say my butt has fallen asleep a lot in the past several days - between the meetings and the plane ride it seems like all I've been doing is sitting, listening, and taking a few notes.
Our flight out of Chicago left just as they started cancelling all the flights out of Ohare for the impending snow storm. Ironically, I have no idea if it actually happened. ALready I feel slightly cut off from the US. All I've seen on TV here is some bizarre Russian aerobics. They don't tell the viewers what to do, they just do it and make cute little laughs and gestures in their thong bathing suits. Very interesting.
The dorm that we're staying at here in Kyiv is amazing. None of the dorms I have ever been in in Poland were nearly this nice. I couldn't believe that we have hot water, clean sheets, and a maid service. Remember it's a dorm!!!
So far the Pre-Service Training has been an overview of what we'll be doing during training, and one things for sure... I'll be learning a lot of language. 200 hours worth in the next several weeks.
This group of Peace Volunteers has made Ukraine the biggest of all Peace Corps served countries. With the 81 in my group there is now over 275 volunteers in Ukraine. It's really amazing. What was more exciting to me is that there are only 12 Environment Volunteers in this group. They're all really interesting people and come from all sorts of different backgrounds. Some of them are right out of college, some used to be park rangers, some just like to garden. It's a really fun and intelligent group... and it's nice because there's only a few of us so we've had the chance to get to know one another pretty well.
Next Wednesday I'll be moving in with my host family and will know where my permanent site will be. I'm literally counting the days until then.
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