After 3 flights and 17 hours in the air we arrived at our apartment around 7pm local time..
For those of you following along at home... Kiev is 9 hours ahead of Los Angeles, 7 hours ahead of Dallas and 6 hours ahead of Naugatuck.
Lisa - The plane from Dallas to Houston was the smallest plane I have ever been on.....3 seats, 1 on the left, 2 on the right! I have never been so glad to be off of a plane in my life!
****After next weekend add one hour to those times since Ukraine is Springing Foward next Sunday!!
We were met at the aiport by 4 people and we had no issues clearing customs! Our apartment is one block from the center of downtown.
We have not quite adjusted yet to the time change....probably by tomorrow.
Today we purchased a cell phone for $430 Ukranian......just recently the US Dollar became worth more in Ukraine. We made our first exchange today and received about $8 Ukraine for each $1 US.
Later today our main contact is going to come by and take us to do a little sightseeing and to have lunch.
Tomorrow we shall meet with our facilitator who will give us more information about our meeting on Monday at the SDA.....that is were will get the first glimpse of the kids that are available.
Lisa - Kiev is a beautiful city. Many of the buildings are old and very ornate......and they are huge. One building can take up an entire sity block. And the apartment buildings are massive. Just imagine not 1 10 story building like at home, but about 6 of them put together. There are some beautiful churches here as well, St Andrews is my favorite so far. At nights all of the street lights are the amber colored ones, and they make the buildings all look golden.
More later.... Da svidanya
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