not much news, I just keep teaching English

Funny moment from yesterday: the student in one of my classes who thought that I was a Ukrainian who had lived in the US for several years (apparently losing my fine-tuned grammar skills but still remembering the language). Everyone is amazed that I only had three months of actual lessons! One of the guys today told me that my Ukrainian is better than my English...not sure what that says about my English, because while my Ukrainian is okay, if it's better than my English, I have no business as an ESL teacher!

Today I went with some of the Virginia group to the big Western-style supermarket. I like Stephanie and Lana--Stephanie bought a Russian cookbook and Lana, who's an elementary school librarian, bought Charlotte's Web in Russian, even though neither of them could read their purchases. I understand. :) They've convinced me to go on the trip to Sviatohirsk Monestary on Saturday. I hadn't been planning to go, since I'd been with some PCVs back in June, but hanging out with them for the day will be fun.

I taught my classes the Um Game today! For anyone who doesn't know it, Sally Ingles taught it to my sixth grade class to improve our speaking skills--you are given a topic and you have to talk about it until you say "um...," "ahh...," or other such sounds. The students thought it was hilarious!

Other than that, no big news...Mom, my debit card simply will not work in the ATMs here, so I'm going to try the bank at some point this week when I have free time to go into the city center. Aargh.