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I was wrong! I thought for sure the snow and ice would remain on the ground way into March. It began melting last week as temperatures rose into to 40’s. Now the sidewalks are a slushy mess and the only things you are guaranteed to come home with every time you go outside are cold, [...]

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For me it has been long awaited. I have had so much to say to you but just have not found the time to articulate it in writing. Included in this post are a few brief events that have happened in my life recently. At the end is an overall update and a link for [...]

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Tonight candles will burn inside windows in remembrance of the millions (3.2 – 10 million) of people who died between 1932-1933 as a result of a great famine. The famine called The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор; translation: death by starvation) is used to refer to this famine because there were no natural causes for starvation. The [...]

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Each month in the Ukrainian language has a specific meaning and October was (жовтень) which in derived from the word yellow. The reason for the Ukrainian word for October is because at the beginning of the month all the trees begin to turn yellow and by the end of the month all have turned. It [...]

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In the past after spending time in Ukraine for summer, I would be home by now. This is my first autumn in Ukraine. So, I’m back to the big city where there is a chill in the air, the sweaters are out of storage, the leaves are already turning yellow and brown and littering the [...]

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Sorry for the delay in posting.  The summer has been moving very quickly…

Guess which picture has food in it!
One night, one of my friends and I were eating dinner together.  As we finished eating we both agreed that we were full.  We cleared the dishes from the table and she looked at me [...]

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With two slight differences from the movie… : 1) my roommate did not forget me, and 2) more importantly I was not fighting off two robbers who were trying to break in.  But I was living alone in Ukraine for the first time ever.  For a little over one week, my roommate was out of [...]

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The sky is blue!  The tulips are up!  The trees are in bloom!  First the apricot trees blossom, next the cherry trees followed by peach!  Soon fruit will abound.  The sun is bright and the days are getting longer!  Under the light of the sun everything looks better!  As I have walked around the [...]

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Over the past two weeks, I’ve warmed up the city and now it’s ready for Obama’s visit.  Today was a beautiful, warm spring day.  You could actually venture outside with a light jacket.  I have not seen a day like this in Europe since arriving.  My trip to Prague and my experience while in Prague [...]

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