Thursday May 12th, Friday May 13th & Saturday May 14th, 2011 - Blog #5

Thursday

This morning we had our language classes in the park again... the weather has been great and the park is so beautiful that having a class there makes the 2.5 hours go by nice and fast! For lunch we had a different salad (cut veggies with oil), green borsch and steak with really good homemade potato wedges! We then had our free time and I got a lovely email from Chris and family! We had our tutoring session and then went to our cultural studies where we finished making our Easter Eggs!

I had oats with what I think was sausage on top - Slava obviously gave me too much and I was unaware that after we were also having borsch... but as always the food Slava makes is Amazing and I can never REALLY get enough... My stomach is currently living my the idea that I may never experience the taste of things again, so I am able to pack down quite a bit of food (this hasn't been the smartest move I've made for the waistline!! hehe!)...

After dinner Dima took all of us to a concert not to far from where we live... the group was called Mission 3:16, the concert had a religious base. The band was AMAZING and it was awesome to see all these people come out and enjoy a concert such as this - and for free! We obviously could not understand the lyrics to the songs, but the music itself was great - they were a rock/alternative band and their instrumentals were crazy good! We rocked out and bought thier CD and got pictures with the band after and all of our CD's signed! The night was Awesome! We had quite a long way home after however, we started on a bus but there was a big accident and so we ended up walking home which took us FOREVER and I was Very tired by the time we dropped everyone off to their apartments.

All of this on a Thursday!
xoxo

Friday

Today I started my day with VERY LARGE fruit salad (in this one sitting before 9am I filled the requirements for the Canada food guide for 2 days!). Today in class (in the park) we learned how to ask people where different places are - of course the most important things like the bus stop, the ATM, churches, train station, etc... I am sure this will end up being very helpful if we ever decide to travel out into Ukraine on our own. (which I do plan on doing!)...

Lunch was great as always! The people here making food for us are geniouses in the kitchen, I was unaware that a potatos and cabbage could take on soo many different tastes, it's great! Instead of having our cultural studies today our tutors took us ice skating at the mall that is close to our apartments. It was a lot of fun and even more so because I got to teach Olesya how to skate!!

After this I went home and had leftovers from the night before - I Love leftovers at home - they are even Better here!!! Later Slava and I watched Ukraine's Got Talent - it is the exact same concept as the American version, but some of the talent was very different and very cool!

Slava and I are getting a lot better at understanding one another with hand gestures and we have pretty much memorized where things are in my phrase book, so we are getting very good at looking things up quickly. I am hoping that tomorrow I can find an English-Ukraine / Ukraine-English dictionary tomorrow so that we have more words to work with!!!

Today wasn't overly interesting, however I am loving it More and More here. I love the simplicity of life and how quiet it is here - things that are just very different from Canada (and big cities like Mississauga [Chris...hehe]). I feel quite comfortable here!

I can definitely say "The World Is My Classroom!"
xoxo

Saturday

Not much exciting happened today. I woke up and had yogurt and oatmeal for breakfast instead of fruit salad - this was a nice change!!! Went to the Internet cafe by my house to go on Skype! Came home and had vegetable soup, a cheese sandwitch, cucumbers and rice for lunch - funny, yes there were vegetables in this soup, but there were also large pieces of chicken also... hmmm.... Later I went to the mall and did a bit of shopping - because why not on a Saturday right?!? I came home to have dinner (vegetble soup [with chicken], rice [this rice had flavour like I have never had before, it was great!]... and Obviously bread!!!)... I studied for a while and then I met Chris (one of the Canadian students from Saskachewan) for a beer at the local cafe. All in all it was a great relaxing Saturday!

xoxo