It's a...POMANDA!

Yup, that has become my new nickname-Pomanda. For some reason, the kids can't say my name the right way. It's really funny because when the younger kids see me, they always say "Look (to be said like "Luke") it's a Pomanda!!" It's really cute when they say it because of their accents too.

The kids have been really fun to teach. For the first 20 minutes, all of the classes combine and they pick songs to sing and play games. The funniest song has been "Old McDonald" because they will pick THE MOST random animals that they could think of, and we would have no idea what "sound" to make for the song. They choose animals like porcupines, swans, dolphins, spiders...it's hilarious. 

Audrey and I had our first attempt of making Blini the other day-they turned out waaayyy to thick-almost like a tortilla. Our host dad makes really good blini and he showed us how to do it, but it was a little hard because he doesn't speak any English, and they don't have any measuring cups. So we thought it was 3 cups of flour, but the cup he used must have been really small because they did NOT turn out the way they were supposed to haha. 

One thing I have learned while living in Ukraine-NEVER eat the food they have at the street markets! I was warned about it, but I didn't think it would be so bad. The meat didn't even taste bad, but I got food poisoning from it. Now that I think about it, I really don't even know what kind of meat it was at all. Other than that...the food is pretty good :), although it can be really bland sometimes.