13 interesting things that have happened or we have planned in the past week.
- Recently it's been nice and warm! It's probably hit 50 degrees the last two days - A very welcome change.
- Last night we were able to visit Andrey, the vocational student who was in South Africa - He seems well and in good spirits as he is studying to become a ships engineer.
- We are coming to the end of our first week with the after-school program - We'll add a few new kids everyday and will max-out at about 30 after a few weeks. We're still nailing down the schedule but the kids are great and we have a good time with them.
- We are trying to potty train Campbell at the moment and it's going.... well, poorly. Any thoughts or hints would be appreciated. Our main issue is not that he doesn't let us know when he needs to go, it's that he refuses to sit on the toilet at all.
- As mentioned in the previous semi-controversial post, I will be going rabbit and pheasant hunting this weekend with my new hunting buddy Roman.
- Jenya and I plan to go to the northeastern city of Donetsk to see Shakhtar play Tottenham in the UEFA Cup on February 18th. It'll be about a 3 day round trip by train and an absolutely memorable one. My first professional game and it's my Ukrainian team and a decent English side in the second-highest European club competition.
- At the end of March we will be going to Belarus to do a Hope Center style camp at an orphanage. It should be a exciting time for our staff and we hope they let us back in this time.
- For April and May we have our Bulgarian friend Kremena (from Sweden) visiting as an intern! This is will overlap with our other friend Meghan who will come here on May 2nd after she finishes school in Egypt. How fun and international we are!
- Sarah went to the village of Bagerava to visit some of her favorite kids from camp last year.
- I was in Bagerava earlier in the week to bring some much needed aid to a few families. An apartment building in town burned down leaving many families without anything. Further efforts may include providing beds for all the buildings former residents.
- Sergey M. is back in town today after having been the MC at a concert in Kiev featuring Coldplay and the Ting Tings among others. He's become kind of famous over here. He will be here for a month helping out with the after-school program.
- The grocery store still had diapers yesterday. This was by no means assured so we were excited to get another week's supply.
- Did I mention that I'm going hunting?
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Awesome! Of course I'm talking about the UEFA Cup game. You have to take some pics and/or video and post it!
ReplyDeletesounds amazing!!! everything that is going on!! tell me more about the after school program.
ReplyDeleteLollipops went a long way with my two, granted Matthew was 2 1/2 and Amelia was 2 1/2 but it worked for us, actually Matthew still asks for one when he has to go number 2, we are working on that! They only got suckers when they sat on the potty and they had to sit there if they wanted it!
ReplyDeleteNow, I'm not to potty training yet (hee, hee), but one of the guys in my car pool tried this tactic: he told his son that he was about to put the last diaper on him. After that, they were out. They weren't going to buy any more, so he needed to use the toilet. He said after that, they had no problems. I don't know if that really works, but it did for someone!
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