Foyer of my apartment
Notice the lack of bathroom sink
Kitchen
My table is my only cabinet
Living/bedroom featuring tv/dvd player with cable
My bed/couch
Pretty sweet bookcase, though I've broken almost every door
View off the balcony
Inside the balcony
My table. I got new flowers almost everyday for a week when I arrived
Sunset from my balcony. Like this almost every night
9th form graduation. Triangle of unity I guess?
Assistant principal and stage decorations
11th form graduation
Taking a bite of traditional bread
11th form turned out to be legit dancers
Seniors giving their last speech
Teachers givinig their congratulations
This took place around 3am
Tying ribbons to a wreath. Use your imagination as to why cause I have no clue about this one
Teachers performing for the students
Something about a dragonfly and an ant
Walking to meet the sunrise
Set up by a lake waiting for the sunrise
Finally, at 4:30am the sun rose
Celebrating constitution day at the lake
We found a white horse in the forest. Kinda surreal
Cool parents of some of my students who treated me to a picnic. The mom is the president of the PTA
People love their lakes and beaches
Celebrating 4th of July. There are Americans, Germans, and Ukrainians in this photo. I'll let you sort it out
Had to
Made some cool friends that night
The Ukrainians we hung out with work with a Ukrainian non-profit
Coolest tutoring session ever. Played with 3 puppies all afternoon
The grapes are just for looks. I love Ukrainians
Exotic birds. Also for looks
Ukrainian house garden. Every square inch is planted with either flowers or vegetables
My tutor's husband and where we ate lunch
I want one
Day at the salt lake with my counterpart Tatyana and her fiancee
Counselors doing what they do best, chillin. Sorry for the crappy photo
Our decorations for the cabin
I made those clouds! Don't judge
I put up the streamers, and they fell every 5 min
Ready for the kids
Waiting for the kids to come
Ready for the welcome dance
Name of the camp, Dzerdzhinets. Got my own nametag and everything
First bus of kids!
Really, any costume would do
The grand welcome with bread and everything. Bout 400 kids came that day
The grand entrance
The “discotec”, or basically auditorium
One of my many new friends after his performance
Cabin 7 girls post performance
My station on the day of games where I had like 5 min to teach each cabin an American game. Taught games to 400 kids in about an hour
Cabin 10 pre performance. They persuaded me to be a bee
Cabin 10 crew
The stadium
Opening ceremony of the Camp Olympics
Entrance of the torch
Playing pioneer ball, which is volleyball without hitting the ball, just throwing it. Very important in the camp olympics
Some of the kids I eat with everyday
The guys of cabin 7
The counselors of cabin 7. There are only 42 kids in our cabin
We take a bunch of fan photos with the kids. This went on for awhile. And this is the second cabin I've had a photo op with
in front of donbass arena. maxim put on his american smile
it's supposed to represent a diamond. the sloped the roof with the grade. not bad
fc shaktar's colors lighting up the stadium
carts of coal representing the region
ukrainian pop stars on the coal carts, singing 'we will rock you'. and a bunch of miners spelling out donetsk
ukrainian flag
fc shaktar flag
ukrainian folk dancers. i wanna be one
yes, a ufo descended from the rafters
aliens playing shaktar
the perfomers choreographed a player kicking a soccer ball. the dude juggled it and everything. super impressive
shaktar's symbol
president of ukraine viktor yuschenko. his days are numbered
fireworks from the stadium
yanukovich. probable next ukrainian president, just standing in the middle of the field giving a speech
yep, there's beyonce. luckily we had binoculars
my new baby
the fenders and frame are all that's left that was original
my riding gear
comrades
my workbench
