the kozelets link cluster came to oster today. always a good time to see more peace corps people! we had a health day with one of the peace corps medical doctors. he told us all about the policies to follow if you are sick or have an emergency. very helpful. you can buy all medicine at your local pharmacy without a prescription. interesting huh? the one thing they dont have here? non drowsy dramamine. ill be taking half of a dramamine tomorrow when we go to kozelets and hoping it doesnt knock me out for my cultural lesson! the peace corp med doctor was great tho...he said he had never known they had a non drowsy dramamine but that he would call headquarters in dc and get some sent here!
it rained and stormed all day here....starting at one thirty this morning when thunder or the wind woke me up. im not a fan of loud weather...but it kind of made me feel like i was back home in alabama with the storm and in oklahoma due to the wind! it is customary in ukraine that you take off your oes upon entering anyones house. if you are the only guest...the family might offer you a pair of slippers to wear while youre there. but at our teachers apartment we walk around in our socks. the whole point of the shoes story? since it rained today i got to wear my cute new pink and green rain boots :) if i ever get to upload pics...you will most definitely find them insome pics!
one of the things i had not realized i had taken for granted in the states was the ue of my iphone to see what the weather is going to be like for the day. it can be deceiving if you look out your window...or even step out on your balcony like ive done every day this week. if anyone with an iphone woud like to text my american cell number ever now and then with weaher updates for oster, ukraine...that would be phenomenal :) apparently oster will show up on the weatherapp that comes installed on your phone!i am more curious than anything just to know what the temp actually is. ps...i can still receive texts for free to my american cell phone. so use it!
todays small world story. one of the head pc office people visited our site today with the doctor. they both live and work in kiev...and peace corps actualyl has vehicles and drivers sometimes that take employees from site to site. anyway..they brought with them a newsletter of ukrainian peace corps info. and as i opened i up...i recognized a picture of some peope i knew in there! one of my dads students from the university of alabama went to ukraine with the peace corps. while serving there...adam met his future beautiful ukrainian wife, tanya. they now live in bama and have two cute kids. i was tickled to find the neat story in the newsletter.let alone actually know the people!
i suppose ive rambled enough. glad tomorrow is saturday although im not too excited to ride in a vehicle again. goodnight blog world!
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Hi, Kiddo! Always interesting to hear from you. Maybe you will learn to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit out of necessity. Like I learned e-mail when Jeremy went off to college. Wish we could get some of that rain you've been having...This is an experiment, to see whether I can figure out how to send a comment, since Mom isn't here. Still hot and dry here. Mom and I started a Netflix movie last night--PLAY MISTY FOR ME, with Clint Eastwood. It was a surprise to me to learn it is forty years old! Mom couldn't get over Clint's sideburns and hair. He is around 80 now. Well, I'm gonna see if this will go...Lytp, Popswedd1
This is more in response to the other comment...but just in case Celsius to Fahrenheit is an issue, take the C temp, double it, add thirty. And it's approximately F! (You can thank Clémence for that one.)
Dorogaya Lidiya,
That's exciting that you will be teaching a class next week. I remember teaching my first class in grad school. Hope you got a nice nap before supper. Much love, Pops
Lyddie,
Here's some math for you!
(9/5)(tempinC + 32) = tempinF
It's the conversion for Celsius to Fahrenheit I learned in Chemistry! Knew that would be helpful at some point.
Also, any idea how these PC doctors get there?? :)
Miss you bunches! I hope you get some dram soon. Can't imagine a car ride with you without it! Or you could get one of those weird bracelet things that balance you. Do you know what I'm talking about? Horrible description, but whatever. I'll look it up!
Love you oodles!
-GCON
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