Obukhiv

So here I am at my training site.  It is about 2 hours outside of Kyiv and is a city of around 35,000 people!  I live in a Soviet style building on the 5th floor, so I will have a great ass by the end of training from all of these stairs!  My host family consists of a grandmother (age 52) and her grandson (age 9), neither of which speak English. 

I am in a cluster, or training group, with 4 other people who are also TEFL volunteers that are learning Russian.  Oh, Russian.  I think the hardest part for me is looking at a letter and feeling like it should be a consonant even though it is a vowel.  Oh, and "False friend" letters can also suck it.  Those are letters that look like a Latin letter (like English uses), but sounds nothing like it.  For instance "C" sounds like /s/, "H" sounds like /n/, and "P" sounds like a rolling /r/.  Fun, right?

I have a cell phone, but I am not entirely sure of the phone number, but I think it is 011380636776465 if anyone wants to test it out and call me.  I am not sure how much it is, but I hear Skype would be fairly inexpensive for an international call.  I am 7 hours ahead of East Coast time, so 10 hours ahead of West Coast.

That is all I really have for now! I am working on a post detailing my staging and first few days in Ukraine, but it is on my laptop and will be long!  Maybe next time :)