Moving on from "Delete"

Actually, we are pretty sure we know what happened to our blog: operator error in Ukrainian. We've been going online at an Internet cafe in the main part of our city. When we went to our blog posting site, all of the instructions appeared in Ukrainian. In my confusion I must have inadvertently clicked on the "delete this blog" button. We've lost what had been written before, but we'll just go on from here. The very exciting thing is that as of today we have this cool technology which allows Internet access through our new cell phone. Right now I'm sitting in our bedroom at our host family's house, typing this post. Since we're on our own laptop, the blog instructions are in English! Hooray -- I don't think we'll be deleting ourselves anymore.

Life continues to go well here. Roosters and the alarm wake us each weekday at 6:15. After showers and a hearty breakfast we're out the door at 7:50 to catch the "marshrutka" bus into town. By 8:30 we're sitting down to 4 hours of Russian language study. The afternoon is time for "technical" training, which has involved visiting various Ukrainian educational institutions, and instruction in a range of aspects of teaching. We have each been scheduled to co-teach with another trainee for eight sessions in the next three weeks. We're working at the college level, teaching 17 to 21 year olds. Today was the first day of instruction for both of us. We were both nervous going in, but the outcome was positive. We teach in English, to students with a wide range of English ability.

The Peace Corps keeps our schedules full, and we're looking forward to the weekend. Take care!