We had a busier weekend than usual, instead of Friday night at home, we were in Dnepro for the Party after American English week. The students were excited to see us, there was a lot of games, and we got to present certificates to our classes. All of my students were there, and gave me (Teresa) a lovely gift of a mug that magically makes the class photo appear when you fill it with a hot beverage. There was food too, 'hamburgers' baloney with tomato, lettuce, ketshup, maybe cheese (I can't remember if there was cheese) french fries (tiny potato sticks, I've never seen them in Ukraine, but a real American snack food) and drinks like soda pop.
It started at five, we needed to arrive early around 4:30. Traffic was heavy down in the center on what was Karl Marx street where the party was, but we were there close to 4:30 for instructions. We were the only teachers there, Jessica was sick with a cold (hopefully we didn't give her ours). So I got to do the interview part of the program with Garry. I let him answer most of the questions, but I did tell them about making a big decision in my life, marrying the first Canadian I found after high school... Garry talked more about why we are in Ukraine.
We got home about 9:30 and went to bed, Garry had a full day of teaching in Dnepro on Saturday, and Friday morning after cooking class, Valentina had wanted to go to Ashan Saturday night because she 'needed everything' for the baby. It had been two weeks since we were there to shop. The schedule had gotten off track (we were going every two weeks on the night Garry teaches only two classes) the week before when he had that extra class for Green Forest and had to change the week he went to the classes afterwards to this past Saturday. We were planning to go this Saturday to get back on track, but Dnepro is going into Covid lockdown today, so English classes will be going online, so maybe not.
Trying to get this post done while Garry is off doing what will be his last his teen English classes for a while. I am also melting honey. There's a metal container and some water in the giant pot on the stove, so I have to keep checking it, it's been simmering for mre than two hours and the honey is almost ready to finish getting it into jars. I have a lot of odd jobs. The 'sunflower honey' tends to be solid and hard to scoop out of the container into jars, so when they get more empty, I get sticky filling jars.
Saturday morning we woke up to snow for the third Saturday in a row. Less than other weeks and it was gone by noon, melted away. Saturday night we took four students shopping, the mall was crazy busy, maybe Zaporosia is going into lockdown too, they are doing it by regions now, Kyiv did last week, cases and deaths are rising and they have found the British variant in Ukraine.
Sunday we finally took some students on the promised trip to church in Kirvoy Rog. Only five, Julia and Dima had wanted to go, but she was sick (right after her birthday). The two boys who were staying there to do new passports stayed at Max Fetisov's church, but the other three had to go with us to 'Adam's church' because we were having trouble with the GPS on Garry's phone and weren't sure we could get back to the other church!
Hoping it works better the next time we go, maybe in five or six weeks. They were happy with the Mc Donalds lunch on the way home. They might even get more of the road finished by then, we had a ten minute delay for some road repairs on the new road!
It is a much nicer trip these days.
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