Have I mentioned that I can log in in English to blogger? ever since I mentioned it a couple weeks ago? Maybe someone reads this blog, besides you, of course.
Anyway I posted about some of the things that happened while I was gone last week on Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday morning Garry drove the boys and I to Kramatoresk so we could visit with Doreen Bauman, who went there a few weeks ago to start a "English and Bible" teaching ministry at the church there. She is a returning missionary as she taught English in Dnepro about 14 years ago. Doreen had asked Garry to pick up a whiteboard and some other teaching supplies at the Metro store- he bought them before picking me up at the train station Monday night. We were planning to leave at 7 am but overslept and got off at eight after discovering a problem- Garry had bought the whiteboard wrapped in cardboard packaging, and decided it might fit in the car better if he took it out of the wrapping. When he did he found that it was not a whiteboard but a corkboard! So we had to stop at Metro and try to exchange it on the way. After 45 minutes we were finally on the way to Kramatoresk. It only took calling Victor on the phone after trying to explain what we wanted to do a number of times - we now know where to go about exchanges anyway.
We saw a number of coal mines as we headed there- Garry stopped and took a couple of photos when we passed one on the route the GPS took us on- you can spot them because of the "hills" of slag. The land became more rolling as we got closer to the city -with real hills. Since we arrived later than planned we met Doreen at the church, she had brought us a little picnic lunch we enjoyed in the kitchen. Seth and Jonah worked on some schoolwork there while Doreen was doing her children's classes. After that we went back to her apartment played Yatzee (Jonah won- he had two yatzees in the game) and had a wonderful dinner with cabbage rolls she had made. Pastor Yura and his wife joined us for dinner. While we were having tea after dinner the English teacher came to talk about Garry talking to students at the school on Thursday.
Garry and I got to try out Doreen's new sofa bed (comfy) while boys got to inflate a sofabed to sleep on (also comfy according to them)
We were supposed to be at the school at 11:30 so the adults headed there (along with pasto Yura) while the boys worked on schoolwork. We had a tour (built in 1957- there are primary to secondary students in the school, and the only wood and metal shop program we've seen- but there is a huge factory in Kramatoresk that makes mining equipment) I took a few photos in the school, we had tea with the English teachers after Garry spoke to a group of high school age students in an auditorioum- all dressed in black and white, the boys in suits, as you can see in the photos. We left about 2:30 and picked up the boys to go shopping for a vaccuum cleaner and kitchen chairs that Doreen wanted to get to finish off her apartment (a car is great to shop with!) Then we checked out the chinese food we were hoping to get for dinner. We were disappointed- the cook had moved to Kiev so it was closed so we ordered at the Ukrainian cafe that had great food and ate after the guys picked up Ilonia, Yura's wife (I surely spelled that wrong) Then we went to Doreen's for dessert and tea and tried out the new vaccuum- it worked great- Ilonia is the model running it in the living room.
This morning Garry enjoyed a morning walk for the second day- and got coffee and a boston cream donut on his way at a little shop around the block from Doreen's apartment (Ukrainian Tim Hortons he calls it) After breakfast he went with Jonah to buy the chairs that Doreen had chosen while Seth helped Doreen with the excel program on the computer, and I washed the dishes. We left about 11:30 for home with sandwiches and goodies Doreen packed for our lunch. We saw a few farms with cows- see photo. It rained as we drove but it was dry when we got home around 4 pm. Seth and Jonah were excited to see all the pets alive and healthy.
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