Of course I leave Ukraine for two weeks and come back to no hot water for a day and being woken up early in the morning to the noisy remodeling of my neighbor’s apartment. Ukraine, it’s good to be back. For viewing pleasure: The Beatles – Back in the U.S.S.R.
I finally managed to clean my apartment and take a video tour of it all in the same weekend. For those of you who have been waiting for this, I’m sorry it took me seven months to get it accomplished. For those of you who watched my first tour, fear not because the new tour […]
I’m helping teach Country Studies again this year and I hope to have a little more direction with the lesson plans. However, for my first class I didn’t want to dive into the material right away (partially because I was asked to teach ten minutes before class started and had no time to prepare). Instead, […]
Today started out as a pretty crummy day for me. I’m not quite sure why. I woke up tired, but I’ve been tired all week; I even managed to accomplish more of my new daily exercise routine before I left for school. I had been getting too tired to go on during the previous few […]
“I spent the summer in my grandmother.” -Tanya (9th form)
Summer business has kicked in full swing lately. I had one camp the week of the fourth. This week I wrote my grant. Next week I have another camp and the week after that another. I’ll try and do a write up when I get free time again but I wanted to mention those things […]
Took third place in a writing contest asking me what Peace Corps service means to me. Take a look at the essay here: http://usembassykyiv.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/borscht-recipe/
This summer I’ve been trying to get back into running. A couple months back, I bought a pair of shoes to help motivate myself (not running shoes but Adventure Shoes). It helps that the other volunteers in town also are trying to get into running. We support each other. While I certainly haven’t stayed in […]
This week has been more work for me than the entire month of May. Partially this is because I had classes cancelled left and right all through May due to holidays, exams and random other events. Partially this is because Jacque and I are going all out trying to keep up with our twenty 8th […]
School ended last Friday. Here’s some updates on my life. Next week I will be visiting a friend for the week and helping her with her summer camp at her school. I’ve been telling students and teachers about this for a while. Today I received a text message from a teacher at school telling me […]