I'm Home!!

It was a long journey home, but i made it!! after 3 days of travel, i am home in Canada! the past few days have been hard, not just the traveling, but saying goodbye to everyone. Monday was our last day of teaching, and it was awesome, because we saw that the kids had progressed through the semester! after lunch, usually the kids would just run around and be crazy, trying to burn off all of the sugar that they had just consumed, but on the last day after lunch, they all sat in a corner and spoke english freely as they put a puzzle together, it was awesome! me and karli just looked at each other and couldn't believe how ironic it was that this was all happening on the last day, it seemed like i had alot of really ironic experiences in that country! so, after we said goodbye to all the kids (wich was hard) and took down all their pictures on the wall (wich was really hard) i got to go home and say goodbye to my host family. it was so wierd saying goodbye to them, and not knowing if we would ever see each other again. they are the kindest people that i have ever met and they will always be family to me! I will miss them alot!! I learned alot in Kiev and i am so glad that i got to go!!

1 week left!!!!

Sorry, i have not written on my blog for a while. alot has happened since i last wrote. the kids keep us really busy, and so does our little host brother! I officialy have less than a week left in the ukraine!! ahh! so, this week is JAM PACKED!! we have our kids Christmas concert that we have to train them for, it seems like everyone wants to have us over for dinner, we are babysitting right now, we go to an opera on thursday, i am soo excited, we have tons of different christmas partys we are going to, i need to go to the grocery store for all of my christmas shopping (sorry to give it away!) and, i get to give a talk on sunday, just to top it all off!! it is going to fly bye!!!
Me and Karli have really been getting in the Christmas spirit lately!! our bedroom has turned into a winter wonderland. last weekend we decided that we needed a little more christmas spirit, so for about 5 hours we cut out snowflakes and made paper chains and stockings while watching the grinch, so you better believe that i am going to be ready to do some pixing and gingerbread house making when i get home!
it is crazy how fast the time goes by, i wish i could stay here in the Ukraine a bit longser, it seems like i am just getting the hang of things here, but i guess thats just how it goes. it will be lots of fun to be home for christmas! and be able to see all of my family, especially my favorite neice and nephew!!

The first snowfall!

so, yesterday i woke up to a white kiev! i looked out the window and freaked out!  I was so excited that i forgot that the boots i put on were not waterproof, and that was not the day to forget that, we did so much walking! so i get outside and it turns out it's not actual snow, it's like wierd freezing rain.  Needless to say i was a little chilly that day! but today came the real stuff! It is so wierd that it hasn't snowed here until now! But me and my host brother took full advantage of it and had a snowball fight today! I live Ukrainian snow, it's like a dream! It was absolutely perfect for snowballs, and every time that i would make a snowball and throw it, it just seemed to hit him! Anyone who has ever had a snowball fight with me knows that that is really spectacular!

It was awesome! all up until i got smoked in the face twice by my little brother, then we stopped because i got two big welts on my face! It is so much fun here, i can't imagine that i am going to be leaving in 3 weeks!!!!

The count down is on!!

I am still alive! i officially have less than a month left, it is crazy how fast time goes. It seriously feels like we are in a time machine. Every day when we go through what day it is we always say like 2 weeks previous and think we are right, then the kids correct us and we just look at each other! I leave on the 16th, but there is still alot to do! it feels like i just kinda got the hang of things even though it is still crazy!!

The visit to the temple

so, they are building a temple here in kiev right now, and a few weeks ago we went and saw it! It was so weird to see a temple right off the highway in kiev. 

My new blog

Well, this is my new blog! Karli is opening up a whole new world of technology to me! As our time in the Ukraine grows shorter and shorter, I figured I should probably make my own blog, instead of just having Karli write about my life, so here it is! Things in the Ukraine are great! Karlis parents and kerri came last week, and it was really fun, it was kinda refreshing to have familiar faces around! We had a lot of very.....interesting, crazy experiences. I don’t think we knew where we were for more than five minutes the entire week, lets just say, we saw a lot of the country! It was great just sitting in the back seat of the mini van just watching it all. they left on Monday, it was a great week. Now we are back to school for six more weeks!!