A weird statue in the park in Brovary
A cross cultural exchange with the 8 Brovary trainees, our host moms, our Language and Cultural Facilitators.
Our host moms' perceptions of Americans reflected in images of lots of money ($$$$$$$$$$), a big goofy grin, a hamburger, Coca-Cola, a bottle of Stoli vodka, a bottle of beer (piva) and the Statute of Liberty symbolizing freedom.
Some dancing among the Ukrainian women at the conclusion of the cross-cultural session.
They are dancing to a recording of the salo song, which my host mother, Natasha wrote.
Michael with his host mom and my host mom basking in the reflected glory of a poster of Mikhail Poplovsky, whom we have dubbed, the "Ukrainian Liberace".
Michael and Tanya standing in front of an enormous statute at The Great Patriotic War (World War II) museum in Kiev.
Kiev was occupied by the Nazis from 1941 to 1943 and liberated in 1943.
Another view of the same statue.
Some more statutes at The Great Patriotic War museum and some Ukrainian churches in the background.
As opposed to Russian churches, which have domes that somewhat resemble onions, the domes on Ukrainian churches are said to resemble pears.
The other members of my language cluster. From the left: Tanya (our Language and Cultural Facilitator), Carol, Tomac and Michael.
Juxtaposition of Good and Evil in downtown Kiev. Slavutich Beer (Good) and McDonald's (Evil).
That top sign might not look like it says "Slavutich", but believe me it does, and the Slavutich brand of beer is very good.
The church in the backround is St. Michael's. The statute on the left is of Bodhan Khmelnytskyi (1595 - 1657) - a famous Cossack leader and Ukrainian national hero.