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Photo Dump 2: Chornobyl and Slavutych

Last week, I took a tour of Chornobyl with some friends. It was the first time I had been there, and I took a bunch of pictures. I was really self-conscious of not wanting to take the same photos of t

Getting Cold

Andriy, Lyosha, me, and Sasha at the Ukraine-Spain game So much for keeping this a weekly thing, huh? October has brought a number of things with it, including a pretty long cold spell here. Though I

Photo Dump 1

I’ve been taking a bunch of photos and not all of them make it into my posts. So here’s a bunch all in one dump. Page is probably going to take a while to load, fyi. These are in no particular order a

Orientation 2 and Brazil

Well, first off, I meant to write something last week. I really did, I promise. Lots to catch up on, a real updatey-update. First things first then, I guess. I moved into my new apartment in Podil, o

The First Week

Ok, technically the First Week isn’t even over yet, but it’s Friday night and it feels like I’ve done so much already. I got into Kyiv on Tuesday midday after 21 hours of flights, or some stupid numb

Orientation

At the end of July I attended the Fulbright Pre-Departure Orientation (PDO) in DC. It was a nice gig, the State Department (I think) paid for the flight and hotel, and we had a nice time at the orien

First Post

Might as well blogIt’s been a while since I’ve maintained a blog with any kind of regularity, but my upcoming Fulbright to Ukraine has prompted me to start up a new one. For those of you who, like my