i fell asleep last night around nine thirty or ten. it was glorious. i resisted the urge to take a nap at five pm because i knew it would screw up my sleping schedule. smart move on my behalf. i still woke up at seven am this morning...but managed to doze for the next three hours. the weather has been asolutely disgusting. definitely gives me a little bit of a preview of what will come in the winter. probably going o need to invest in some more long underwear. btw..tested out my north face long undies...the medium weight shirt and light pants. they are so comfortable...highly recommended.
today...brendan and i went to jamies house for a little discussion time for our team teaching that we will be doing this week. after having heard all about jamies host family and home...i was quite excited to meet them. on my way to his house...i stopped and got some earl grey tea at the magazihn by the bus station. it cost eleven grievna...which is about a dollar fifty for twenty five tea bags and the brand i got comes with a cute tea spoon!it is the kind th my host family drinks at home...so i knew it would be good. brendan brought a sleeve of lemon girl scout cookies. anytime you go to someones house in ukraine...it is customary to bring a small gift. even if you arent planning on eating or drinking anthing... you still need o bring a chocolate bar or bag of cookies etc.
brendans host mom nd jamies host mom are best friends. they probably talk ten times a day...and compare stories. its amazing how fast news travels here. jamiea host mom knew he was on the phone with me the other night before he even hung up. HOW!!! there have been multiple occasions that things like this have happened and we all just look at each other in amazement. it is sid that the babuschkas that sit on their porches know youre daily routine and where youre goingat all times. i totally believe them on this now. it is simply unexplainable.
we had tea and cookies while at jamies...in addition to his host moms amazing strawberry (klubnicka) jam. jamie talks about his host moms jams all the time...and now i can see why. uh. maze. ing. i also had some of her chocolate butter...which we smeared on cookies. basically...chocalte frosting. i could have eaten it straight. also got to meet his cat...that sleeps with him. after jamies...we heade to a magazihn to buy more minutes for our cell phones. then to our technical cross cultural facilatators house...lyuda. we got ome info for lesson plans and headed home.
oh...it also started sleeting slash hailing today. and aining multiple times. got to use my new red raincoat from rei! i was uite excited about that.
well...i need to finish lesson plan ideas on nutrition. i will be team teachingwith jamie on wednesday in the seventh form...aka seventh grade. we will observe them in a class tomorrow since we didnt get to last thursday. toodles!
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