Still counting. We are now at 71% of the ballots. The results are still about as the exit polls predicted. We still can't count out two of the smaller parties until every vote is counted since they need to cross the 3% threshold and are very close to doing that.

Chernovetsky, the health-and-wealth charismatic, appears to be Kyiv's new mayor though we are still counting there as well.

The President's party didn't show up for coalition talks, so we still don't know who the prime minister will be. It will probably be several days of negotiating.

As much as we can tell, the elections were the most democratic ever. That means the Orange Revolution was not a failure, it did matter what happened at Maidan.

As for the ministry, many people are sick. The weather is changing and that seems to always prompt illness. We only had 3 people in our Psalms group on Monday, but the two students did come for the English class. It also seems I may have a new opportunity with the friend of Tanya, one of the people who comes to the Psalms group. He is interested in learning English so hopefully I will be able to meet with him.

Lena is working hard on her marketing class. It's quite demanding.

The snow has almost completely melted and we haven't switched to less heavy jackets. We also changed our clocks last week, by the way. I think the US does it a little later.