picture post 12 december

pictures!

- Why is Laura so angry?
- Because the pigeons like this man more than they like her!
- always random things to buy on the street- sometimes a single cigarette, sometimes peanuts of sunflower seeds, sometimes half a pumpkin
- the class of teachers to whom I presented my final lesson/ workshop
- ‘tis just about the season!
- the wild Nescafe machine in captivity
- what would you choose?
- foxy bowling shoes! the car in the background is a dining table
- Sharon shows how it’s done
- Jessica, the picture of confidence
- Pat, Elise, and some cards thrown by a man who had to be escorted out twice
- Where do birds go in the snow? They can’t really figure it out either.
- the cutest educational tool around== Oksana’s “hot dog” who we toss gently about in review games
- it’s official!
- In Kiev-- McFoxy? Wonder if that’ll take off… Note “I’m lovin’ it” at the McDonalds to the right.
- visiting the Peace Corps office
- statue in kiev! imagine! there are lots :)
- excited-for-cake faces, on cue
- our link cluster, minus Lucas
- Natalia [TCF] and Oksana [LCF]
- flowers grow even on walls along this street of artists leading up to Saint Andrew’s church
- Taras Shavshenko and a dog
- traditional embroidery
- Saint Andrew’s
- awesome mural in an off-street parking lot
- ministry of foreign affairs building
- look! perfect snowflakes!
- look! a picture of perfect snowflakes!
- Saint Sophia’s
- Bogdan the famous
- Saint Michael’s complex- includes a seminary, too
- the church itself, inside the walls—no pictures allowed inside of the church, though!
- flashed-on snowflakes
- overlooking Vladimir the Great overlooking the river
- from quite a distance, a huge arch—a friendship monument between Russia and Ukraine put up in the 1960s
- Archangel Michael watching over independence square
- from this monument, the lines on the ground point to and give distance to lots of national and international cities
- are we to Lviv yet?
- for some reason I always forget to take a picture of this in Chernihiv, but my training city is the home of a famous brand of beer—
- and this building’s all lit up like the flag!