I feel like I have told you guys what we have been doing in Ukraine. Sports camp, then English camp, and VBS at the same time. I thought this blog I would just show you some photos, so you can actually visually see how my month went.
This is the VBS class that Diane, Natasha, and I taught. They were amazing, and listened to Diane and I teach, even though they didn’t understand a word we said.
This was mine and Cassie’s English class. We had ten days of English, and the first week we had four- five kids. By the end of the week, they could say “Hello my name is.. I live in Ukraine. I am __ years old. My favorite color is.. My favorite food is. They could also say their abc’s, know what each letter sounded like on the spot, and they could count, and know how to spell the number out. Our second week, we had all new kids. Out of this picture, there was only one original person. So, we had to start fresh, and poor Ira had to pretty much review that whole week. Working with Cassie, and working with the kids were amazing. They were so open, and so willing to learn.
Here was our original class. We had worksheets for them every day, and they loved it.
Here was my favorite Ukrainian dish. It is called Varenyki. It had potato inside it. I learned how to make it. My husband will be very happy, and probably fat.
Me helping with the dough on the night we made Varenyki with a bunch of people from the church.
Here is Cassie and I eating Salo. It is a cube of fat on bread. They call it a Ukrainian Snickers.
If you want to see a short video of it, you are in luck!
http://youtu.be/sj62C8AuBfA
Here is our VBs teachers. They have something called American Football. It is soccer, but the American team has no rules. We can pick it up, tackle little children, throw the soccer ball, as well as other things you probably shouldn’t do. We dressed like this, because this is how Americans dress according to the children.
Here are the Heroes of the Week in VBS. We had heroes of the bible, and Sergey was Daniel, Joe was Joseph, Tyler was David, I was Esther, and Adam was Noah. Not only did we talk to the kids about ourselves, we also had to dress like this and go in front of the church on Sunday and talk about who we were, and were asked questions.
Here are our teachers for VBS, and my name is in Ukrainian!
Here is our milk that we would drink. It came in a bag, and we would have to always pour it in a bottle, so it did not spill in the refrigerator.
This is where we dried our laundry. Some days, it smelt fine, so days it smelt like mildew. Either way, it was washed and worn!
So, I don’t think I have told you yet. Tomorrow, we are headed to Moldova. We are not going to Russia anymore. Moldova is below Ukraine, and right next to Romania. I just found out today that my team will be by ourselves, we will be ten minutes from the boarder of Romania, we will be doing English class again as well as a sports camp. Also, the place where we are, they will be speaking Romanian! I am glad I still know a few phrases from when I was 16. We leave tomorrow at 6am my time, 10 pm your time to travel to the capitol of Moldova with five other teams. It We will stay at a campsite for 3-5 days for our debrief. Every two months, our squad has debrief where all we really do is rejuvenate our spirits, tell stories, and get ready for what is to come.
Please pray for safe travels with all eight teams. It will be a long 9-13 hours on a bus, possibly more.
Also, I thought I would ask you guys if you had any questions! If you have any, ask them in the comment section, and I will answer them next blog! Thanks for praying.
