Last Bell...and Jamie's birthday :)

Today (Friday) was a big day. It was the last day of school here in Ukraine (at least in Oster) and we got to attend a typical ceremony at the gymnasia. It is called the Last Bell and can best be described as a graduation/celebration/recognition of good students...and a few other words that I'm forgetting right now. They asked us to speak at this and just say a few words...in Russian (do you see the theme?). My teacher Zhenya has a video of this but I haven't gotten it from her yet...and I'm not quite sure I want everyone to be able to see it. Ha. So some pictures will have to suffice for today's blog post. I'll let the pictures do most of the talking for this blog post...enjoy!

All of the senior formers (11th grade is the final grade here in Ukraine) have balloons I think. They let them go at some point during the ceremony...and I'm sure some words were spoken...but I couldn't tell you what was said :)

The rest of the school (I think there are around 400 students at the gymnasia)

Jamie and I with the one of the English teachers who has been our main contact at the school. Her son was also graduating and was in the 11th form class that we taught.

The "Last Bell" signifying that school is over and summer is starting! It is a tradition for an 11th former (senior) to carry a 1st former (kindergarten kiddo) on their shoulder while the little one rings a bell. They walked all around the square for everyone to see.

This is Zhenya (the name Zhenya here in Ukraine can be both male and female) who carried the little girl on his shoulders for the last bell. The seniors also escort out the little kiddos...so so cute :)

More senior formers escorting the young kids. The guy in the suit is Vlad, who is the English teacher's son.


Check out the pom-pom on this little girl :)

I have neat video of a performance that was done in the middle of the ceremony, but don't have time to upload it now. I need to have an entire day of uploading videos for everyone to see...just don't have the free time now!


Also making today a big day was the fact that it is Jamie's birthday! Turning the big 2-5 here in Ukraine meant that we had to have a few tricks up our sleeve.

Yesterday after Russian class, we surprised Jamie by going to have some good ol' pizza at one of the few restaurants here in Oster...the pizzeria. We get pizza with chicken, veggies (tomatoes, black olives, mushrooms, onions, corn, etc.), sometimes white sauce (I think it's mayo...as opposed to using tomato sauce), and sometimes with red sauce, pineapple, cheese, etc. I can't eat the mushrooms...they taste too weird. But the rest of it I can eat without a problem (picking off an onion every now and then...). Impressed, Mom?

Check out the really cool Hard Rock Cafe pin on Jamie's shirt...it's from 2009. Thanks to Cassi's mom for sticking that in her luggage at the last minute :)

Today for Jamie's birthday, we surprised him (again) with some cake, strawberry sparkling cider, and an authentic Ukrainian birthday card. Mr. birthday boy himself.

Lydia, Jamie, Mark, Cassi, and Lyuda (our technical/cross-cultural teacher)

same pic...with our language teacher Zhenya. I've got great video of us surprising Jamie...but again, it will have to be uploaded later. And of an awesome firework candle that went on the cake. Get excited.

Tomorrow we are off to Kozelets for a technical/cross-cultural lesson...and then some of us will be going on to Chernihiv from there. My mission tomorrow: to find a pair of black high heels that I can walk/stand in. I feel like it's a necessary purchase to become more Ukrainian... :) and let's face it. Lydia likes to shop. The end.

I'll end with a question for you to figure out! In class this week, we learned how to describe appearances (tall, short, eye color, hair length/color, etc.). So, for one of the activities in class, we were each given a post-it note with a celebrity on it. We had to figure out who the person was (it was on our backs...so we couldn't see the name) by asking about their appearance. So...the question. What does Cassi's card say? And no one that speaks Russian/Ukrainian can guess on this! Leave your reply in the comments!

a post from my kindle...

greetings blog readers

i have been using my kindle a ton lately to read and check email... so it seemed appropriate to do a blog post from it! it never ceases to amaze me what the kindle can do. i needed a definition of voluntee the other day for a lesson plan and was able to look up the definition on the kindle while laying in bed. pretty amazing. just like before...please excuse the typos on this post. my fingers move faster tham the cursor does.

so whats been going on in my life lately? thanks to the wonderful world of facebook i was able to learn that oklahoma had a big storm or storms pass through it. hoping everyone is okay there. i still see pictures on facebook of the tucaloosa tornado effects. so much damage...but it looks like people are taking things as positively as they can and are moving forward.

sidenote:fireworks are going off right now in oster. this seems like a normal occurence now to me. very interesting at 10:30 at night...

anywho...it seems unbelievable to me that my hree months of training is almost up. i can carry on a conversation in a foreign language now....most of the time :)there are definitely days that my russian just doesnt want to happen. or there are days when i get letters mixed up that we use in the english alphabet but that have different sounds in the russian alphabet. the perfect example of this is the word PECTOPAH. this is the russian word for restaurant...and it uses all letters tat have different sounds. the P in russian is actually an R noise. the H in russian is actually a N sound. go figure. at least once week...we all have a goof up in language class where we try to sound out a word with the english letter sounds as opposed to the russian letter sounds. OR...like i did today...where my brain randomly switches to spanish and i said me gusta...as opposed to menea naraivitsa for 'i like...'. you just have to laugh and embrace it.

it is so weird for me to think about leaving oster in less than three weeks. i remember driving up to my house...with my host mom in the back seat with me. it was snowing when we arrived with all twelve of my bags. i rememebr getting lost on the second or third day here...thinking how confusing it is not to have a map. or even worse...not be able to use my iphone to ge directions for something. that sentence definitely embarrasses me by the way but its true. one of the things i love here is the fact that i dont sit and waste hours on the internet (which is funny to type when im writing a blog...onmy kindle of all things). but truly...back in the states the first thing i would do i the morning is check my email and facebook on my iphone while i lay in bed...barely able t see anything. i was able to do that last week in chernihiv at the pst university...and i felt guilty! its so amazing to see how caught up in technology i was and still am...but it definitely feels good to not rely on it so much. it ruled my life back in the states...and here i actually get to enjoy life in a different way.

i have never lived in a city where i relied solely on walking everywhere as my means of transportation. it was definitely an adjustment the first few weeks i was here...thinking if i wanted to walk someplace i needed to make the trip worthwhile. but i have a completely different outlook on walking around oster now. you can basically get anywhere you want in fifteen minutes or less. i am dying to get a pedometer to see how far i walk on some days. its refreshing to get the fresh air qand to say hi to people on the streets. i love th look of shock on a ukrainians face when ZDRASTVUTYE (hello) rolls off my tongue. its kind of a game to me now. and with less than three weeks left in oster it is sad to think that i will have to move again and get to know a new city and new people. however...that also brings a great excitement because that will be my permanent site for two yars...and i will truly become a member of that community. hopefully ha :)

i suppose ive rambled enough. hope this post made sense with my incorrect spelling thanks to no proofreading on th kindle .love love

My Host Family :)

One of my assignments the past few days was to get a picture with my host family. This may sound like a simple task but finding a time when everyone looks presentable and is dressed in nice clothes definitely took some time (and maybe a little mother/daughter fighting like I would expect in any family picture scene, regardless of the country!). I'm not sure I've explained how the dress code here in Ukraine works...so let me give you a little 411.

Even if you walk outside just to go down the street to get a loaf of bread at the local magazihn, you have to look presentable. I think I have worn at least a little makeup every day since I've been in Ukraine. This was not a normal occurence for me back home so it's definitely been an adjustment to allowing enough time in the morning to get ready. It is pretty common for women here (and girls...starting at the age of 16 or 17?) to wear high heels while walking down the dirt road. I have yet to figure out how they do this without tripping. I can barely walk down the street without tripping and nearly breaking my neck (my group mates think I'm a walking disaster because my knees and ankles give out on me at random times. I may or may not have also fallen down the stairs in Kiev before...let's just say it was a good think Mark was in front of me :) )...let alone do it in heels. I did not bring a pair of heels (last minute decision not to because I had no room...) which has been a decent decision because I would like to buy a pair here that will fit in more. I feel like it's a necessity...EVERY female teacher wears heels...every day. I just don't see how they do it.

Without further ado...here is our lovely family picture. My older host sister (Katya) lives in Kiev and is married, so maybe the next time she comes here we will be able to get a full family picture.

Dad (Andrei), Mom (Gala), Sister (Christy), and Lydia

I need to go finish doing my damashneeya zadanuhyeah (homework) right now...so I will sign off and submit this blog! Talk to y'all soon :)

A trip to Chernihiv! & a few other random things...

It's a nice Sunday morning here in Oster. Thought I'd give you a quick recap of the past few days.

On Wednesday and Thursday, all of the Youth Development clusters (I think there are 7 total...which means around 35 people) headed to Chernihiv for an event called PST University (Pre-Service Training University). At PSTU, it not only gives us a good chance to catch up with people that we may not have seen since we arrived in Ukraine, but it was also filled with classes/lectures that we attended geared towards being a youth developer. The TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) trainees had their own PSTU in Kiev earlier in the week on Monday and Tuesday. They also brought in a few current youth development PCVs and had a question and answer session for us. Overall, a good few days...and we got to explore the city of Chernihiv a little more! Here are a few pictures from our time in Chernihiv...

Jamie, Lydia, Hayley

Cassi & Mark

Richard, Lydia, Maria, Simon

Maria, Matt, Morgan

Jamie, Lydia, Richard

Maria & Matt...2 of my link-clustermates. They really do like each other...I just happened to catch this gem of a pic.

Upon arriving back in Oster on Thursday evening, I went for a run by one of the rivers. It is completely new terrain for me to run on here in Ukraine. Out at the river, there are no paved paths...just paths created by cars that might drive along the river to get to their farm land. I guess I need to take a picture of this, but I never want to carry my camera when I'm running. Anywho, since the weather has been warming up and more and more people are outside now, the river has become quite the hot spot for local youth to hang out. The boys swim in it while for the most part the girls watch on the sides. I definitely attract quite the number of stares when I jog by...and then receive a chorus of "Hello's" from each kid. What makes it even funnier? The boys swim in their underwear...which is obviously just how it's done here.

Friday was a nerve-racking day for us in the Oster cluster. We would be having our site-placement interviews...dun dun dun! It ended up going incredibly well, but the whole idea of not knowing where you're going to live for the next 2 years is kind of a big deal. It also means that we are that much closer to being sworn in as Peace Corps Volunteers. The youth development lead specialist came and interviewed us along with a regional managar for one of the oblasts (think states) here in Ukraine. They had our resume that we sent over months ago with all of the work we had done in the States. Most of the questions involved what we did back in the States, what our strengths were, what we enjoyed doing, are you more of a creative person or sports oriented person, etc. Definitely went with the creative person on that one. Who can see Lydia coaching a soccer team? I can't, considering I've never played soccer in my entire life. All in all, we basically have no control over where we are going to be placed, and I'm completely fine with that. I wouldn't know where to tell them if they asked me where I wanted to go. I'll be happy where I'm placed and excited to be living in my own, new community here in a few weeks. Can't think about it any other way!

Well, I need to write a lesson plan now for our kids summer camp that we will be conducting in a week. It's a requirement for youth development trainees that we conduct a 3-5 summer camp in our cities...so we are working with the two schools that we've taught at: the gymnasium (Lydia, Jamie, & Brendan) and school #2 (Mark & Cassi). I guess I've never shown you a picture of the gymnasium where I've been teaching...so here are a couple.

The right side of the front of my school, the Gymnasiaum. There is a field/court in front of this where the students play soccer in between classes.

The front entrance to the school. The mo-peds in front of the school usually belong to some of the kids in our 11th form class (the seniors).

This is the best overall picture I have of a classroom in the gymnasium. Jamie is at the board, Brendan is at the door on the right. This is some of the 11th grade class. Sorry the picture is a little dark...didn't want to use the flash.

Here is the best overall picture of Mark & Cassi's classroom at School #2 (that's simply what the school is called...there's not a School #1 in Oster. Ha, don't know why!). Mark is on the left, the English teacher is next to him, and Cassi is talking to the English teacher.

I hope to get class pictures with the students before we leave Oster. We found out on Friday that we were asked to say a few words a the Last Bell Assembly which is on Friday, May 27. This is apparently a huge deal here in Ukraine...all of the parents come, it is technically the last day of school but they do not do any school work. People speak, songs are sung, people dance I think. Not really sure. What it means for us is saying thank you (in Russian) to the people at the Gymnasium and the community for letting us work here in Oster. Should be interesting!

I've rambled enough and put off doing my lesson plan long enough too. Toodles :) happy Sunday!

The past couple days here in Oster...

A lot of things have been going on here in wonderful Ukraine...which explains my lack of posting! My host sister also has exams this week so she's been using her desk (where the computer is located) to study, so I have not used the computer as much as normal. This will be a recap with some pics of the past week or so of life. We'll start with yesterday (Monday) and work our way backwards :)

Remember the post where I told you that being a Peace Corps Volunteer means you have to be flexible? We joke now about how flexible one can be...but seriously, there is usually one issue/occurence a week where it shows again the need for being a flexible person. Jamie and I were supposed to teach our final 7th grade lesson on Wednesday the 12th. We were not informed that the students would be having a history test that day...it was by pure chance that I saw some of my students at the stadium on my way home. Then it was decided we would take their English class period and teach at 10:30 on Monday (yesterday) morning. Sunday night, our technical teacher, Lyuda, called us to let us know that we needed to switch again and would now be teaching at 8:30 am on Monday morning. Awesome. I actually am glad the way it worked out, but here are a few pictures of teaching.

We created a board game that was a great way to review the past 4 weeks of information that we taught the students. It was a LOT of work, but it paid off in the end and the students really liked it. I brought some silly bandz from home (thank you Target one section!) that each student received as a prize at the end of the game. Success!

Lydia (in the white) and Jamie to the right of me (we're probably trying to read a translation)

puzzle pieces made up vocabulary words for the students...

playing the game!

Here's a picture from the previous lesson...hopefully will upload video of me teaching soon!

On Saturday, we hopped on the local bus to visit our link cluster Kozelets for a technical session. After that, we headed to Chernihiv (about an hour by vehicle) which has all sorts of things appealing to us. Maria, our rotation language teacher is from Chernihiv and had offered to show us around for the day. The first stop was to get Brendan and Jamie to the parikmaherskaya, aka the salon. They hadn't had haircuts in about 7 or 8 weeks and it was driving them pretty crazy. I was also able to purchase a straightener...which I really wanted to be able to curl my hair. AND, more importantly, Cassi and I got purses at the bazaar that will finally "fit-in" here in Ukraine. It is NOT okay for teachers to wear backpacks, so I have to instead carry all of my items needed for teaching in a giant purse. I will try to snag a picture of it soon and post it. It was a great day in Lydia's world when she got to go purse shopping :)

After that, I got to see my long-lost friend Hayles :) she actually lives about 15 mintues away from Chernihiv and usually spends the weekends in Chernihiv. She came to lunch with us at a neat restaurant/cafe that Maria told us about.

My lunch consisted of borshct, some potatoes and chicken, an apple crescent roll/dessert and hot tea, all for around $3. Above is my borchst :) which I still love.

While at lunch, Maria (our teacher) asked us if we had let our host families know we arrived safely in Chernihiv. Whoops. We each texted our family to let them know we were safe and what time we would be coming home...this was not a normal text message though. It was in Ukrainian which took us about 5 minutes to type two sentences. It was quite comical. It's definitely easier at this point to pick up the phone and call and tell them what time we'll be home :)

SIDESTORY: I'm on a break right now in between Russian class and my tutoring time. I walked home after class to realize I had forgotten my keys in a different purse at home. This would not normally be a problem because my host mom is home on days when she doesn't work. However, she worked her 24-hour shift in Kiev yesterday and takes a bus home the next morning (today) around 8 am....and then sleeps since she didn't sleep the night before. I didn't want to call and wake her up, so I called my host dad who was out driving somewhere and had to explain that my key was inside the house and that I couldn't get in the gate. Whoops. BUT, he understood and came home :) I don't know the word for "forgot" right now...guess I need to learn that.

After lunch, we were planning on going to visit caves that are underneath some of the old churches in town. However, it was raining like crazy and we were not prepared for it. So, we headed to the train station as part of a field trip we had to do for class. Since I am learning Russian but Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine, all signs in public places are in Ukrainian. While they are similar alphabets, some of the words are completely different.

The Chernihiv (that's what the red lettering says) train station...the backside of the building.

The interior of the train station. Kaca is cashier. LOVED the color of the walls in this place.

One of the trains out back...waiting for people to get on!

We headed to another bazaar to relax for a bit before our bus would leave at 5 pm. All in all, it was a great day and I truly loved Chernihiv. It is a big enough city with all of the amenities but not too big for an American to get completely lost in.

Backtracking one more day, let's replay Friday (May 14). It was our rotation teachers last day in Oster so we took a walk for the last part of our Russian language lesson. We walked by one of the rivers that runs through Oster and then went to do some speaking sessions in the shade.

Playing in the tall grass

Jamie and Mark

Oster cluster with Maria (our rotation Russian teacher)

Cassi and I

Lydia, Cassi, Brendan, Mark, Jamie, and Maria

Tomorrow we head to meet all of the other youth development trainees in Chernihiv for a retreat where we have sessions all together. Excited to get to see Chernihiv again :) talk to y'all soon!

Victory Day in Ukraine

Victory Day was yesterday here in Ukraine. This day is a giant celebration for all of Ukraine...the day that the SSSR defeated Hitler. Kids do not have school, businesses are closed (for the most part) and activities are going on all day long. We had regular Russian language lesson from 8-10 am, then a quick technical language session, and off to the parade we went!

People waiting for the parade to begin...

Since we were missing 2 hours of Russian class (FYI: for Pre-Service Training we are supposed to have 4 hours of Russian class a day), part of our assignment was to interview veterans about their experiences during the war, how old they were, where they served, etc...all in Russian. This cute little old man was covered in badges, of which one was similar to the Purple Heart. I believe this is his sister sitting next to him.

I interviewed this cute old babushka...but snagged the picture of Mark interacting with her. She was very curious why we were here in Oster...which I actually knew how to communicate my answer to in Russian! For the most part that is... :)

The man on the left was 16 when he was sent to Austria (I think). He worked there for a few years...unaware that the war was over. He actually met an American who informed him that it was finally over and that he could go home. The American helped he and his friends by buying them clothes, food, and a car to drive back to Ukraine. While driving across Poland (I think) they were taken to prison because it was so long after the war that the police thought they might be spies. (Sidenote: I hope I am telling these stories correctly...if my clustermates read this and they are wrong, please correct me!)

Part of the parade...soldiers marching in formation

We see Brendan's family all over town...including his favorite family Sasha :) From left to right: Vika (Brendan's host sister), Maria (our rotational Russian teacher), Olga (Brendan's host mom), Sasha (in Brendan's arms...), and Brendan.

cute little Sasha. Remember her?

Babushkas sitting at the park after the parade where the mayor gave a speech and guns were fired in honor of those who lost their lives.


There is a monument in our city park that commemorates all of the lives lost and people of all ages bring flowers (that are freshly in blume all over the city) and lay them on the monument. You might also have seen veterans with these flowers...it's all part of the giant celebration. (Sidenote: one of the babushkas that lives in Maria's {our Russian teacher} apartment building gave us each a freshly cut tulip from her garden to be able to give to a veteran that day. So sweet!)

On holidays here in Ukraine, one of the typical foods that families cook is called shask-leek, aka shish kabobs. My host mom and dad made some deliciously seasoned meat...I'm not even sure what the meat was but it was seasoned so well I didn't care. Probably pork.


I'll end with a few pictures that were just too cute/interesting to not post...

Loved this adorable braid that the little girl on the left has in her hair! And the sunglasses the little girl on the right is sporting...

There was a competition held after the parade outside of the city administration building where local Oster people could compete for prizes (I think). We didn't stay to watch much of it but the costumes were pretty great.

Also outside watching the competition was this great photo op. Couldn't pass it up...


There was also a legitimate competition here in Oster that featured Ukrainian artists...the girl in the blue sang with quite a voice...but the best part were her back-up dancers, and more importantly, their costumes. The end!

A Recap for the past week or so...

I have basically been MIA from the blog world for the past few days...please forgive me. Lots and lots of things going on in Oster and I just haven't had the time to sit down and blog. Today's post comes with no pictures as of right now...just wanted to get some info. out there to let you know what's been going on lately!

Today is Victory Day here in Ukraine, celebrating the day that the SSSR defeated Hitler. It is a HUGE holiday here...students don't have school, people have BBQs, there was a parade downtown, veterans are given flowers from everyone around, etc. I haven't uploaded my pictures and video yet to my computer, but they will come later on the blog. It definitely deserves a post in and of itself! Look for that in the (hopefully) near future :)

This week marks our last week with our rotation language teacher, Maria. She will go back to her original PC cluster group and Zhenya will return to us for the remaining few weeks of Pre-Service Training. I am shocked every time I look at a calendar and realize that it is almost the middle of May...where have these months gone!?

One of the biggest responsibilities of being a PC volunteer is that you have to be flexible. We joke about this, but it is truly a necessity to make it through your 2 year service. In foreign countries things are not always run the way that they might be in your own culture. So whether it be if the water gets shut off at your house for a few days (this happened at my house here in Oster a few weeks ago) or maybe an appointment doesn't happen at the time you thought it would (communication barrier?), things come up in the PC and you have to be flexible. Today, we had a perfect example of this. Let me explain... :)

On my way back to my teacher's apartment after the parade, I walked past the stadium and saw three of the girls in the 7th grade class that I have taught a few times. Students here are always very excited to say "Hello!" or "Good morning!"...even if it's 2 o'clock in the afternoon :) The point is, they see one of the Americans and come running up to use a token English phrase. When I saw my 7th grade girls, I walked across the street to say hello to the them and see what they were up to. One of them is actually one of Cassi's (cluster-mates) host sisters, so I asked if they had seen Cassi walk by just a bit before me. Since my Russian is limited and their English is equally limited, there are only so many phrases that I can say before I run out of options in my word bank :) I had used up all of my token phrases (for example: Kak parade? Shto vwi budiete? How was the parade? What are you up to?) and needed to get to my technical tutoring lesson...so I started to walk away and told them I would see them on Wednesday when Jamie and I would be teaching their class. Wrong. They then started sounding off in Russian that they have a history exam that lasts for two class periods on Wednesday...and my understanding was that it would be taking up the class period that we were supposed to be teaching in. I tried to clarify this is in every way possible...asking the time that their test started, but they kept telling me that it lasted an hour and forty minutes. lol...I know how long 2 class periods are...I need to know what time it starts and ends. As I walked away, I wondered if I really had understood them correctly. This week's lesson that Jamie and I had prepared was a giant board game of things that they've learned the past 4 weeks when Jamie, Brendan, and I have taught them. It was going to be a lot of work, but we knew it would be a fun way for them to learn...so I was truly excited to get to teach them this week. Upon arriving at Maria's apartment, our technical teacher Lyuda was finishing her tutoring session with Cassi and Mark. I broke the news to Jamie and Lyuda at the same time...and the only thing we could do is laugh because NO one had been informed of this history test taking up our class period. Since I was not 100% certain that I had understood correctly, Lyuda called the Ukrainian teacher to see what the deal was...and sure enough, we would not be teaching this week. I can't begin to explain to you how utterly devastating it would have been to walk to school on Wednesay with our homemade boardgame, pumped and ready to go...and not have a class to teach! We will hopefully be able to teach the lesson before school ends. But it simply keeps replaying in my head...what if I had not said "See you Wednesday!" to the girls as I walked away from the stadium? Lesson learned to always say hello to people on the street and confirm meeting and teaching times :)

I suppose I've rambled enough now. I need to go drop a few books off at my teacher's apartment...and I would kill to go for a run right now. However, it looks like it's about to doshct (rain). Tonight, there will be fireworks in honor of Victory day...which means every dog in Oster will be barking. Maybe I'll be able to post pics later on the blog today. Hope everyone has a great Monday! :)

My newest animal escapade...

While home in between a tutoring session and safety session, I received a phone call from Jamie (one of my cluster-mates). It went a little bit like this:

J: I think I just found your picture for today.
L: Okay...I already took a picture for today but sure, go ahead!
J: I was on my way back from the magazihn (store) and passed by 6 baby goats in someone's front yard. They're maybe a foot to a foot and a half tall
L: See you in a minute!

I grabbed my big camera and headed down to meet him. I haven't used my big camera as much as I would like to yet because I didn't want to feel like a complete tourist wandering through the streets of Oster. I always have my small camera on me (point and shoot) but this opportunity definitely called for the big camera.

here's the runt of the litter (do goats have a litter?)

3 of them...the runt is in the middle

each of them had their little horns started :) so cute.

If you click on the link below, you will find a video that I posted on Facebook of the little goat getting left behind. It was so much smaller and so much more wobbly on his legs that it couldn't keep up with his brothers and sisters. It was one of the cutest/most pitiful things ever! Jamie is also seen at the end of the video.



This was the gate that the goats walked home to...look at the big mama and papa goat!

As I was snapping the picture above this one, this little guy ran out barking his head off at us. I took that as a cue to leave :) he was quite cute too...looks like his name should be mop!

Have a blessed Sunday. Missing my church back home because today is Youth Sunday! I'm sure everyone will do a wonderful job :)