Time to Fetch my Parents!

In a mere matter of moments, I am heading to the airport to collect my parents. I'm so excited that I can barely sit here and type this. Their flight gets in at 1:30. The plan is to come back to the Peace Corps office, drop off their bags and then spend the afternoon walking around Kiev. In the evening, my friend Vadym is going to pick us up and drive us to Bar. Tomorrow we are going to have dinner with Roma's family. Then we're going to go to the sauna. On Sunday, we're going to shashleek in the forest near my friend Alona's village. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we'll relax in Bar. Wednesday night we will take the train out west to Lviv. We'll spend a day walking around Lviv and then we're off to Budapest. They leave from Budapest on the 19th and I'll take the train back to Bar. That's the plan at least. I can't wait. That's all for now though, because IT'S TIME TO FETCH MY PARENTS!!!

Finally, Some Photos

Here are some pictures from the last few months. The first picture is Roma and his sister Oksana. Roma is wearing the Laker's jersey I got him for his birthday and a medal he got for playing basketball when he was younger. He fished out the medal specifically for this photo.

The second picture is me and Roma holding our shashleek meat. It took awhile for the meat to cook so it was dark by the time we ate. During the day, we enjoyed nice weather and, as you can see in the fourth picture, the boys played cards.

The third picture is me with some of my friends. We were at the park in Bar. The last photo is of the cemetary in Roma's grandmother's village. On Easter we went to the cemetary and placed flowers and food at the grave of his relatives.