Man having this blog thing is exhusting.  I would like to apologize to all of those who check my blog every day in hope of some new exciting Ukrainian stories.  Those people probably do not exist but in case they do.  Like always all is well here still. Been to Kiev twice since I last wrote.  A lot to see in the city, huge city, population around 4 million people.  Also went to a village near by, really cool to see black swans as well as what a small rich village looks like.  

Besides that training has gone by so fast, another 3 weeks and I will be on my own. Not looking forward to leaving my beautiful apartment, my family, and 9 other American volunteers that I have been training with.  To answer all of you who have asked if I am fluent in Russian, simply no.  Therefore, living on my own in 3 weeks in a small village should be interesting. Nervous for the move of course but excited (I think).

 So yea next few weeks consist of more language classes as well as planning our summer camp.  We will be running a 4 day summer camp for 7th graders. Should be fun if we manage to get through the whole language barrier.  Thats about all, and then of course packing and heading to Kiev for 4 days where we will be sworn in and finally get our site placements.  Kind of annoying not knowing where we will be going, especially since the Peace Corps will know next Friday.  

Been reading a lot lately as well, I am going to start a list somewhere on my blog of the books that I have read, maybe the ones I plan on reading as well.  If you have read one please let me know, I always love hearing what others have to say or think about things.  Well thats all I got for now, please continue shooting me emails, love to hear from all of you. Hope you have a great day!

Time is flying by here!  Been long and busy days which really help pass the time.  Last weekend we went to Kiev, it was a lot of fun! The city is very beautiful, was nice to travel a little bit and see a big city.  Sunday we are heading back to Kiev to meet up with some other volunteers, right now there is about 20 of us going, so it should be a lot of fun.  Things in Fastiv have been great as well.  Taught again on Tuesday, and have been busy with Russian all week.  At times its super tiring and hard to learn the language but the little times when I understand my family makes it so worth it.  I even answered the telephone at home yesterday!  First 75 percent of the call was great haha.  A few current peace corps volunteers came yesterday and are spending the weekend with us, which is great to hear about there experiences.  And they are awesome at Russian which is very encouraging, give it a year and I will be slightly better!  All is well, love to hear from all of you.  Take care! (love the picture, makes me feel very funny since Rita is laughing at me- its slightly like a Charlie Chaplin film between the two of us, very funny interactions but a very little amount of talking)