As stated in my previous post, some exciting events are happening in my neck of the woods. My Lyceum held our Olympiad last week and we had quite the turnout. I'm pretty sure that everybody was excited about the English test and not just wanting to miss some lessons. Results are finalized and this was to help us determine who should go on to the next round in the region (county). If they place, they go to the Oblast Level (State) and then possibly to the Country Level!
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| The start of the Olympiad - Quite the crowded room! |
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| The 7th From starting their Listening Task |
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| Volodimyr Mykolyovitch proctoring 'Listening Comprehension' |
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| Working diligently! |
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| Ira, Dima, and Roma at the head of the room |
Also, I spent a weekend with Ukrainian friends in L'viv. Most of them were locals, and showed me a side I'd never seen before! One of them being atop the Administrative Tower in the center of the city!
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| One of the last beautiful days of Fall! |
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| Looking at the Greek Catholic Church and a bit of the city center! |
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"High Castle"
Many, many stairs will get you to the top - just ask my Mom and Dad! |
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| High Castle with the city in the foreground |
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| One of my favorite cities in the world |
Then, we went to the Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life, or rather "Shevchenko Grove". It's an open air museum with 100+ different structures, buildings, houses, monuments, etc. There was even a Cossack Wedding while we were there, so we watched a little of the procession!
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| The Bride and Groom |
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| Of of the Wedding Party/Cossack Ensemble |
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| One of the Churches |
This isn't an exactly hidden treasure in L'viv, but it was the first time I'd been there and cannot wait to go back. I feel like we only saw a fraction of the territory -- much to be explored!
And then it was time to celebrate Halloween. Well, there was no carving of pumpkins, but there was a lot of candy, 90 minutes worth of games/Halloween entrainment, plenty of costumes, 2 pre-carved pumpkins, 40+ children and one English Club facilitator...me.
I was slow with the photos, because frankly I had my hands a little full. Costumes included a ghost, lots of witches/vampires/princesses, a couple of cats, a real PCV (me in a traditional Cameroonian outfit), some movie stars, etc. Activities included: Halloween Vocabulary Concentration, Mummy Wrapping with TP, Put the Stem on the Pumpkin, a presentation about Halloween in America, watching a short clip about 'How to Carve a Pumpkin' and of course, a Costume Fashion Show.
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| "Put the Stem on the Pumpkin"! |
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| Mummy Wrap! |
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| More mummifying! |
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| What's left over of our Vocabulary Concentration Game and our 'stemmed' pumpkin! |
I'm leaving for Moldova tomorrow, so I'm spending a few days in Kyiv exploring while on Fall Break. Hopefully the VISA reapplication process goes smoothly and I'll be back with some fun stories and photos from Moldova...and I guess a VISA. It started snowing off and on here in Ukraine on Saturday. That's nothing compared to Sandy -- praying for the best for everybody in the East!
Happy Halloween to everybody! Eat some Candy Corn for me please! (Photos of the Candy Corn brownies I made coming soon...)
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| Dodging the rain/sleet/snow in Kyiv with some Windmills and Pysankys! |
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| Slava! |
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