The last week most of PCV 38 and a few others spent a week in Kiev for IST training. We learned about volunteerism and how to incorporate it into our projects. It was very interesting and helpful. I got a lot of ideas from the training. It was really good to see everyone that we hadn't seen in a few weeks but it was almost as if we had never left.
Some of us stuck around for the weekend to hang out in Kiev. I have been there a few times but never really saw the city. We were all so tired from the week of drinking that we stayed in and watched movies. We had a few birthdays we had to celebrate this week so it was a rough one.
The red sweater comes in because the temperature dropped so much in 24 hours. We had all packed shorts and tank tops because we have been experiencing a heat wave for the last few months and the temperature literally dropped 30 degrees in a few hours. So when we stopped off at the PC office on Friday I went fishing in the box of clothes from other PCVs and found a big, warm, very red sweater. It was just hideous but it was warm and I wore that thing all weekend. And I brought it home as a memory of the weekend.
We went to the WWII memorial in Kiev but we didn't get there in time to go into the museum or the caves under the church but now I know where to find them. They aren't very close to a subway stop so it took quite a long time to get there. The memorial is situated along side of the Dniper so it was a beautiful place to just sit and start out into the landscape.
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