picture post- 16 january

new pictures, featuring film camp in Brody and an entertaining holiday tradition in Lutsk!

- you've got a friend in Brody, not too far from Lviv
- sleds!
- look! it's me! i'm here, too!
- a really beautiful skyview
- from a really beautiful cemetery
- very old and dramatic looking in the snow
- warm-up games at film camp
- game-plan strategy in front of waterfall mural
- lesson on story-boards
- and the effects of different shot angles and distances
- movie introduction for Up! [the other film was The Princess Bride!]
- another mural opportunity
- well-ordered icicles
- another church, clearly
- pretty sky, local event
- "Bethlehem Fire" is apparently an event welcoming the new year with songs, speeches, and candles [listen and see HERE and HERE!]
- this little church is made out of wood
- these little vareneky are made by hand, although not by mine, with potatoes or cabbage inside
- lunch at the home of my tutee, with a first course of kapusnyak [cabbage soup]
- a flock of pom-pom dogs
- yup, it's snow on trees
- one of my co-workers and her friends, dressed up for a holiday tradition- shchedrivky, on old new year's eve
- the bear and the beauty, cast members, at the dress rehearsal [HERE!]
- oksana, who works at the university, dressed for her role and stuffing pampushki [garlic buns] with fortunes
- the devil does the angel's makeup
- another festive participant
- the first stop on the entertainment tour- a performance for each home, with singing and acting and some dancing, ending with a request for a token of appreciation... not exactly like halloween, but something like that :)
- another house, where the angel's mother receives her fortune [HERE and HERE!]
- another house, another fortune
- is he man, or is he goat, and what does this young audience member make of it all?
- generous appreciation at the last house of the tour

:)