Hey everyone, It's been a long time since my philly post. And a lot has happend. Right now I'm in an internet cafe in my new hometown for the next 3 months, Nosivka. It's a town of about 15,000 2hrs northeast of Kiev. My host fam is pretty great, I have 2 twin host brothers that speak english very well, and a host mom whose been feeding me very well!
I'd like to tell about what I call my first real Peace Corps experience. The other day my brother Sacha asked my if I wanted to visit his grandmothers (Babusa in Ukraine). Of course I agreed and we headed out. But before we got out the door my brother advised my to not wear my nice school shoes. So I changed and we left. 10 minutes later we came to a quaint little farm house of the Babusa. The first thing I saw as I went to the back of the house was a large pile of beets (Buryak) 2,000kg of beets as I was told. After a quick introduction with Sacha's Babusa it became apparent that we were here to move beets! So 15 year old Sacha and I began filling up bucket after bucket with beets and dropping them down a chute into a store cellar. The process did not take as long as I thought it would, maybe an hour. And my young host brother looked up and complemented me many times saying "you are a strong boy". A few lesser chores later and we were done. Our Babusa made a delicous meal of eggs,potatoes, pork and salad (all fresh from her own backyard). Afterwards we headed back to our own home and I started again on my Ukraine homework. The language and technical traning here is intense (understatement) but I'm slowly picking out more and more words from local conversations.
Hoping to write again soon!
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