I have begun English classes with two students, one of whom had come to our Soup Group. We meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays for two hours. I am delighted about this opportunity. It's slow going. We are on simple present--the first of the 12 English tenses for ESL students to learn.
After class on Thursday, I was running around KPI market area buying eggs and a chicken and some onions for the evening meal. Lera and Vitaly were coming over to plan the wedding ceremony. We had a pleasant meal and they stayed till after 11. We then spent about an hour heating water to wash dishes and trying to get the kitchen clean with no hot water. Day 9 of no hot water.
Today we met up with Anton Tayanovsky and headed out to a Sam's type store--METRO. Besides performing the wedding ceremony, I have become the buyer for the meal to be served at the wedding. We went to check prices on things like mayonnaise, butter, eggs, sausage, flour, sugar, etc. Lena, Anton, and I spread out and gathered data. It's now being compliled in an Excel file to then be compared to prices at another story and the open-air market to determine the best price. On Thursday next week, we'll go and buy everything and somehow get it to the sanatorium outside Kyiv. 75 pounds of potatoes. 200 eggs. 45 pounds of apples to name a few. On Saturday, I'll be checking prices in the market for farmer's cheese and butter by the kilo.
We also confirmed that I'll be doing the wedding ceremony in Russian. I wisely suggested we involve several others in the ceremony so we are going to have others reading Scripture and praying for the couple. Isn't odd that the ceremony in Protestant churches--though we have been protesting the Catholic priesthood for 400 years--is still modeled on Catholic ideas.
There's a great story at Missions Resource Network about how much missionaries should be paid. It's quite a sticky point for me these days. Kyiv has become so expensive. Coke is more than in the USA. Vitaly and Lera have been trying to rent an apartment and only by an act of God will they find something cheaper than $450 a month. Crazy, crazy, crazy.
After class on Thursday, I was running around KPI market area buying eggs and a chicken and some onions for the evening meal. Lera and Vitaly were coming over to plan the wedding ceremony. We had a pleasant meal and they stayed till after 11. We then spent about an hour heating water to wash dishes and trying to get the kitchen clean with no hot water. Day 9 of no hot water.
Today we met up with Anton Tayanovsky and headed out to a Sam's type store--METRO. Besides performing the wedding ceremony, I have become the buyer for the meal to be served at the wedding. We went to check prices on things like mayonnaise, butter, eggs, sausage, flour, sugar, etc. Lena, Anton, and I spread out and gathered data. It's now being compliled in an Excel file to then be compared to prices at another story and the open-air market to determine the best price. On Thursday next week, we'll go and buy everything and somehow get it to the sanatorium outside Kyiv. 75 pounds of potatoes. 200 eggs. 45 pounds of apples to name a few. On Saturday, I'll be checking prices in the market for farmer's cheese and butter by the kilo.
We also confirmed that I'll be doing the wedding ceremony in Russian. I wisely suggested we involve several others in the ceremony so we are going to have others reading Scripture and praying for the couple. Isn't odd that the ceremony in Protestant churches--though we have been protesting the Catholic priesthood for 400 years--is still modeled on Catholic ideas.
There's a great story at Missions Resource Network about how much missionaries should be paid. It's quite a sticky point for me these days. Kyiv has become so expensive. Coke is more than in the USA. Vitaly and Lera have been trying to rent an apartment and only by an act of God will they find something cheaper than $450 a month. Crazy, crazy, crazy.
posted by Kyivmission at 2:38 AM
3 Comments:
Wow! 9 days without hot water. I take so many things for granted. I'm enjoying all the details about the impending nuptials.
Praying for you.
When is the wedding again? Who is going to be cooking with all these pounds and pounds of food? I hope it will be sanatorium kitchen. We recently went to a wedding where the bride made her wedding cake and flower arrangements herself. She probbably made other things herself too, but I dont' know about those for a fact.
The wedding is May 27. I did finish the shopping list today. And the sanatorium is doing the cooking. We just have to deliver the products. I think they are making all the decorations for the wedding. ---Chris
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