So summer has certainly ended the weather outside tells me so. The last two weeks I spent at site were nothing like I thought they might be. I spent time getting back into the swing of things at work and in my personal life. I had many dates with friends, meetings with colleagues and lessons with my tutor. I have met new friends and I have new ideas for the next 9 months so some time for planning has ensued. I didn't account for the holidays. Silly me! The day of Konotop was quite fun. Very much like it was last year. I spent 7 hours in the center walking around and checking things out, listening to the music played at the concert, dancing at the disco, watching the dancers compete and then the finale of fireworks! I didn't stay for them last year and I can't remember why but they were awesome. Reminded me of my days at Ocean City, MD at the beach for July 4th weekend. Didn't think they had it in em! Apparently, Ukraine knows how to put a party on.
Our city was visited by Karaoke of Maidan a few weekends ago as well which brought out many people in our town. This is a big deal for Ktop! This organization you will usually find in Kiev looking for the next singer so to have them in Konotop is a big deal. The city was overly packed that day and you couldn't even get close enough to what was going on in the center. Whoever it was that won did a mini concert for us at city day. It was pretty cool!
Today is not only the 10 years anniversary of 9/11 but two of my very good friends are having a birthday today. Lyuda, my Ukrainian friend in Konotop, and Tricia my old friend from New York. Today I will be celebrating Lyuda's birthday with her. We are going to have a picnic and then I am not sure what will follow. You never know but today is Sunday so I will need to take it easy. Not only am I training for a marathon but I have to work tomorrow!
Next weekend should be a blast. Many PCVs will be in Kiev for the marathon and the many working group meetings that are taking place in the office so there will be people everywhere. I am looking forward to finishing this race!
I have a ton of good ideas for this year. I just finished an awesome meeting with my Special Needs Working Group.We are trying to put together a training conference for professionals in Ukraine that work with people with disabilities for next spring/summer. This is going to be a great project to work on and one I can't wait to see completed. I am working with two organizations in the states to help make this happen so I feel really good about it. Me and my site mate are working on a HIV/AIDS training as well for Konotop. We want to train the professionals here on new information and how to teach it to our city. We want to put on a concert in early spring/summer right here in Konotop. The ideas and thoughts have been flowing and I am so excited about the many different things we can do with this project. This may be all that I can muster for the next 9 months but if I can pull both of these off this will be exactly what I wanted to do with my service and I can go home happy!
Our city was visited by Karaoke of Maidan a few weekends ago as well which brought out many people in our town. This is a big deal for Ktop! This organization you will usually find in Kiev looking for the next singer so to have them in Konotop is a big deal. The city was overly packed that day and you couldn't even get close enough to what was going on in the center. Whoever it was that won did a mini concert for us at city day. It was pretty cool!
Today is not only the 10 years anniversary of 9/11 but two of my very good friends are having a birthday today. Lyuda, my Ukrainian friend in Konotop, and Tricia my old friend from New York. Today I will be celebrating Lyuda's birthday with her. We are going to have a picnic and then I am not sure what will follow. You never know but today is Sunday so I will need to take it easy. Not only am I training for a marathon but I have to work tomorrow!
Next weekend should be a blast. Many PCVs will be in Kiev for the marathon and the many working group meetings that are taking place in the office so there will be people everywhere. I am looking forward to finishing this race!
I have a ton of good ideas for this year. I just finished an awesome meeting with my Special Needs Working Group.We are trying to put together a training conference for professionals in Ukraine that work with people with disabilities for next spring/summer. This is going to be a great project to work on and one I can't wait to see completed. I am working with two organizations in the states to help make this happen so I feel really good about it. Me and my site mate are working on a HIV/AIDS training as well for Konotop. We want to train the professionals here on new information and how to teach it to our city. We want to put on a concert in early spring/summer right here in Konotop. The ideas and thoughts have been flowing and I am so excited about the many different things we can do with this project. This may be all that I can muster for the next 9 months but if I can pull both of these off this will be exactly what I wanted to do with my service and I can go home happy!
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