Summer Holidays
Tomorrow is a holiday and day off in Ukraine. It's Constitution Day. And it does look like Tymoshenko is going to be the new prime minister, by the way. We are still jumping for joy about the World Cup victory. We are heading to Egypt again soon so I won't be able to do any reporting while we are gone. Ukraine plays a very tough Italy on Friday. Of course, the US held Italy to a draw so maybe there is hope for Ukraine.
Today, Lena was training Vitaly in some UEC financial matters and I had my English class. Olya was the only one who came today and she is going to be gone for about 3 weeks. We also had our Cherkassy Conference planning meeting and it was well attended. We will be studying Judges for this week-long event. It looks like we will have a full house for the weekend and then the crowd will about go down by half for the rest of the week. No long lines for the toilet. Something I am thankful for though I do wish more could stay for the whole week. Paul Prill will be with us for the week so we hope he cooks up some lovely French food (or anything he is willing to pay for :)
Yesterday the human resource agency Mercer announced its list of the world's most expensive cities. They survey a variety of factors and while the survey is a bit misleading (since its actually for what it would cost to maintain basically a US lifestyle while living abroad) I was shocked to see that Kyiv had moved from #54 last year to #21 this year. We tied with Vienna, Austria. Can you believe that?????? So for all those financial donors who read the blog, your contributions are very important to us!!!!
Things are crazily expensive these days while some things, like the metro, haven't changed in years. Housing is the worst part and food isn't much better. Forget about buying an apartment or renting anything nice. It's just a madhouse. I think many things are now more than in the USA. I just really don't know how people manage to live considering how low the average salary is.
I don't know how many days we have been without hot water. I stopped counting. They are changing the pipes at the end of the building. Of course, they repaired them last year and we had the same outtage. But this year, we actually saw that they had new pipes they were replacing the old pipes with. So God bless the people who occasionally decide to work at the end of the building. But I doubt they will be working tomorrow!
Today, Lena was training Vitaly in some UEC financial matters and I had my English class. Olya was the only one who came today and she is going to be gone for about 3 weeks. We also had our Cherkassy Conference planning meeting and it was well attended. We will be studying Judges for this week-long event. It looks like we will have a full house for the weekend and then the crowd will about go down by half for the rest of the week. No long lines for the toilet. Something I am thankful for though I do wish more could stay for the whole week. Paul Prill will be with us for the week so we hope he cooks up some lovely French food (or anything he is willing to pay for :)
Yesterday the human resource agency Mercer announced its list of the world's most expensive cities. They survey a variety of factors and while the survey is a bit misleading (since its actually for what it would cost to maintain basically a US lifestyle while living abroad) I was shocked to see that Kyiv had moved from #54 last year to #21 this year. We tied with Vienna, Austria. Can you believe that?????? So for all those financial donors who read the blog, your contributions are very important to us!!!!
Things are crazily expensive these days while some things, like the metro, haven't changed in years. Housing is the worst part and food isn't much better. Forget about buying an apartment or renting anything nice. It's just a madhouse. I think many things are now more than in the USA. I just really don't know how people manage to live considering how low the average salary is.
I don't know how many days we have been without hot water. I stopped counting. They are changing the pipes at the end of the building. Of course, they repaired them last year and we had the same outtage. But this year, we actually saw that they had new pipes they were replacing the old pipes with. So God bless the people who occasionally decide to work at the end of the building. But I doubt they will be working tomorrow!
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