Click here to see some very interesting optical illusion paintings from Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Oleg Shuplyak
Click here to see some very interesting optical illusion paintings from Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Winter
I'm finally back at site! There are snow drifts and I taught classes in my coat today. It's officially winter and I'm dedicating this post to all the things I'll be doing to pass the time/not be in a blah mood.
I color coded my second semester schedule in spring-y colors.
I'm copying my landlady and making a small indoor herb garden that hopefully will manage to grow despite the lack of sun.
Cross-stitching. Maybe, knitting.
Reading mindless books. And maybe some more mindful ones if I feel like it.
Studying Ukrainian.
Not going on auto-pilot in regards to the classes I'm teaching.
I color coded my second semester schedule in spring-y colors.
I'm copying my landlady and making a small indoor herb garden that hopefully will manage to grow despite the lack of sun.
Cross-stitching. Maybe, knitting.
Reading mindless books. And maybe some more mindful ones if I feel like it.
Studying Ukrainian.
Not going on auto-pilot in regards to the classes I'm teaching.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Traveling, Again
Village --> Pavlograd --> Dnipropetrovsk --> Kyiv --> Lviv --> Kamianka Buzka --> Lutsk --> Prolisok --> Ukrainian Language Camp! --> now reverse it
In other news, I guess I've hit the culturally appropriate level of high-heeled-make-up-ed-ness as many people at my school have felt the need to tell me they approve of how I look these days.
To my dad: Indeed, my haircut is very Ukrainian. Multiple kids today told me it looked good.
In other news, I guess I've hit the culturally appropriate level of high-heeled-make-up-ed-ness as many people at my school have felt the need to tell me they approve of how I look these days.
To my dad: Indeed, my haircut is very Ukrainian. Multiple kids today told me it looked good.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Quote of the Day
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
-Frederick Douglass
From the NYT article A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug.
-Frederick Douglass
From the NYT article A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug.
The Travel Breakdown
To America:
2 buses --> overnight train --> bus --> (delayed) 2 hour flight to Frankfurt, Germany --> missed connecting flight, bus to hotel, overnight stay in Frankfurt --> 9 hour flight to Washington, D.C. --> 1.5 hour flight to Cleveland!
To Ukraine:
~1 hour flight to Toronto --> 4 hour layover that turns into an 8 hour layover due to a flight delay --> 8 hour flight to Frankfurt --> missed connecting flight, layover of 11 hours --> overbooked flight, bus to hotel --> early morning flight to Vienna --> flight to Kyiv --> bus --> 7 hour train --> 6 hour layover --> 2 buses --> back to site
The main point of this being that this trip, in theory, was supposed to take about 36 hours. The first leg extended to about 48 hours, but with a good night's sleep in Germany and some sleep on the overnight train.
The second leg extended to about 72 hours, but the only sleep I managed was a couple hours on a bench and about three hours in the hotel in Germany, and a couple hours on the train to Dnipro (it was not an overnight train). It was rough.
I can't believe I have to go to school tomorrow.
On an unrelated note, I traveled from Germany with another PCV and a Brazilian boy who was doing an internship in Ukraine. When we first arrived, the Brazilian boy commented how absolutely gray everything was and that "It's freezing!" The other PCV and I laughed and told him we thought it felt pretty tropical for Ukraine in January (it was about 40F). I think our jadedness scared him but at least he'll get to see lots of snow, which he said he'd never seen before.
2 buses --> overnight train --> bus --> (delayed) 2 hour flight to Frankfurt, Germany --> missed connecting flight, bus to hotel, overnight stay in Frankfurt --> 9 hour flight to Washington, D.C. --> 1.5 hour flight to Cleveland!
To Ukraine:
~1 hour flight to Toronto --> 4 hour layover that turns into an 8 hour layover due to a flight delay --> 8 hour flight to Frankfurt --> missed connecting flight, layover of 11 hours --> overbooked flight, bus to hotel --> early morning flight to Vienna --> flight to Kyiv --> bus --> 7 hour train --> 6 hour layover --> 2 buses --> back to site
The main point of this being that this trip, in theory, was supposed to take about 36 hours. The first leg extended to about 48 hours, but with a good night's sleep in Germany and some sleep on the overnight train.
The second leg extended to about 72 hours, but the only sleep I managed was a couple hours on a bench and about three hours in the hotel in Germany, and a couple hours on the train to Dnipro (it was not an overnight train). It was rough.
I can't believe I have to go to school tomorrow.
On an unrelated note, I traveled from Germany with another PCV and a Brazilian boy who was doing an internship in Ukraine. When we first arrived, the Brazilian boy commented how absolutely gray everything was and that "It's freezing!" The other PCV and I laughed and told him we thought it felt pretty tropical for Ukraine in January (it was about 40F). I think our jadedness scared him but at least he'll get to see lots of snow, which he said he'd never seen before.
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