New students

Just before I left for Canada we got a new student, Tolik. I asked Garry last week, and he's still there. Sometimes guys come and after a week or even a day, they go back to what they were doing before, even if it's living in the street. Garry also told me that Valera (the new one that came in the spring)'s younger brother who came for a weekend in July is also going to be a new student.

Two old students are coming back. You may remember that Julia (or Yulia) and Dima left in the fall for Kiroy Rog and got married there in March while the team was here. Garry and Eugene went to the wedding. Well, being independent has not turned out so well for them and they have been asking to come back periodically as they have not found jobs that they could do. So we will have three married couples living in the three apartments this fall. Kolya and Oxana, Julia and Dima and Alyona and Nikolai.



If you follow Garry (or Victor) on facebook, you will have seen that our very newest student, Denis arrived early in the morning on August 20th. Alona's water broke at two am and they called for an ambulance which arrived 20 minutes later. The little 2.4 kilo guy was born a half hour after they got to the hospital. Nikolai rode in the ambulance but had not seen the baby yet when Garry and Victor arrived there in the morning, so they all met him together. Apparently Nikolai was so excited he had only put on shorts and sandals before leaving and had no shirt when they got to the hospital.

Ironically, they had planned to have Victor go with Alona to her appointment on Wednesday to find out what to do when she went into labor, since her due date was supposed to be early September, but we don't need to worry about it now.

We got some used baby clothes and a crib and stroller donated by students from English Institute and church members from Morningstar in Dnepro for the new baby. They were excited to help out. Garry had better pick up the crib sometime soon.