This will be an interactive blog; Where is the biggest square in Europe? Where is the biggest Vladimyr Lenin statue in East Europe? What city takes 24 hours to get to by train from my city?
KHARKIV! Former capital of Ukraine and the only other city in Ukraine to have a metro other than Kyiv. After a 3 day training in Kyiv about HIV/Aids I have headed east to Kharkiv to hang out with Shelby. I can always tell I'm in east Ukraine because no one understands me. I speak Ukrainian because I live in western Ukraine and people in the east speak Russian. Yesterday morning on the train I casually went to the conductor and asked for a cup of coffee.
"a cup of what?" she says.
"coffee, you know, black stuff" and i pointed at the coffee sitting on the shelf.
"oh, coffee, why didnt you say that?"
I decided just to let it go but with the mental note to remind myself how to say coffee in russian, which is actually the same in Ukrainian, just pronounced differently. knowing is half the battle.
Shelby actually lives in Zolochiv which is a village 45 minutes north of Kharkiv and about 20 minutes from the Russian border. I think today I will take a bus to the border just to say I've been there, maybe I will throw a rock into Russia for good measure. Last night we went to visit her host family who speaks Ukrainian. Theyre such nice people. It made me miss my family in Chernihiv and wish I had a host family in Frankivsk. Maybe I'll work on that when I get home.
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