Friday, October 3, 2008

Welcomed at the Arrival Retreat












Hello There!

I have officially been in Ukraine for six days now and it is amazing! The people have been so hospitable and kind. We did have an interesting situation with our group's luggage...it did not quite make it on our second flight so there were over sixty of us that were unable to pick up our checked baggage in Kyiv. Oh well - we did receive it in 1-2 days, but it was quite an adventure (over seven hours in the Kyiv airport trying to straighten everything out!).

I have attached some pictures of the Soviet-era "resort" that we stayed at for three days and two nights. It was a fast introduction into PC Ukraine. In our group (Brian...this is for you...), we have 73 people (Ukraine is the largest PC program in the world).

I have been assigned to learn Russian, which most likely means I will be placed on the east side of Ukraine where Russian is more widely accepted. Lately though, there has been a push for Ukrainian to become the dominant language, but Russian is still widely used.

Hope you enjoy and thank you for your support!
Nat-B (now Natasha in Ukraine)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

All the pictures seem to be from a painting (except the toilet one!) Looks amazing Nat! Love and miss you!

Love,
USA sis (Mallory)