This is the powerpoint of approximately 100 pictures of my time in Ukraine. It includes pictures of Novoukrainka, Lviv, Kirovograd and Kiev. See below for a more complete listing of the pictures.
A tour of my Ukranian experience: Novoukrainka (pop. 20,000); Lviv (pop. 900,000), Kirovograd (pop. 200,000), and Kiev (pop. 2 million)
2. my hotel, Novoukrainka
3. my room, also with sitting room and private bath. Only hotel in town, best rooms.
4-5 typical house and street
6. local river, lined with trash
7. streets with large pot holes
8. typical chalkboard at school, surface so used, very hard to write on, a few had fist-sized holes in them
9. exterior of school; 1-11 grade (forms), about 390 students
10. stairs at school; did anyone measure these? Very uneven and hard to climb
11. school director’s office; note lack of file cabinets, phone, computer
12. student embroidery; girls have home ec classes at end of day; boys sent to vocational training
13. 2nd form; note girls’ beautiful fancy hair bows (everyday) and the black/white theme of clothes. No school uniform yet, but this classes’ choice. Soon a school uniform will be implemented
14. my partner Lyudmila teaching a lesson
15. only computer lab, 12 computers
16-19. student folk festival, performed in hallway, no auditorium
20. close-up of traditional welcome bread
21. actors in folk festival
22. students are expected to clean the classrooms
23. I was given a tour of an ostrich farm by the wealthy landowner
24. Sergei, showing off his expensive new. John Deere harvester
25. school cafeteria: borsch (cabbage soup) served everyday along with some dumplings or potatoes and meat cutlet. Students clean up
26. quietest student group work ever
27. students participating in Ukranian language lesson
28-29. 7th form students attended an evening with parents, discussing “Healthy way of life” and discussing American food
30. . 7th form students watching my video of Moscow Junior High School
31. on train to the big city Lviv: met Roma, 14 year old who wanted to practice his English. I was the first American he’d met, and he lived in Khirovograd. We still correspond.
32. Lyudmila in restaurant in our fancy hotel in Lviv
33. Lviv from city hall clock tower
34. Lviv; memorial to Chernobyl disaster
35. Lviv; band commemorating the day the Ukranian flag was first raised in the city after the revolution; 1994
36. Lviv; famous Armenian pub. We took an English speaking walking tour of the city.
38. Lviv; rubbing nose of statue of famous poet Shevchenko for good luck
39-41 Lviv; various of 68 churches in the city
42. Lviv, market square
43. Lviv, market; pictures made of crushed amber
44. Lviv; opera house
45. Lviv; controversial political figure Stepan Bandera; in western Ukraine, a national hero; in the east and in Russia, a Nazi collaborator
46. Chicken Hut : “lick your fingers.”
47-52. Lviv: Shevchenko forest, dozens of 18th and 19th century peasant huts and churches reconstructed; dressed in traditional clothes; note, chimneys were taxed, so houses had only holes in ceiling and were covered in soot
53. traditional painted eggs
54. Lyuda window shopping at luxury store
55. On train back to Novoukrainka. Young man of several in construction group. Worked in Russia, home for post-Easter visit. No jobs in Ukraine, so many work in other countries. He had been there 6 months, but hadn’t been paid for the last two. He was still returning to work.
56-60. Town market
61. Lyudmila and daughter Vika looking at market ducklings
62. Lyuda and husband Oleg, also a teacher
63-64 visiting several local cemetaries, post Easter tradition. Memorialize dead by bringing food, drink and sweets to gravesite, exchanging food with those who knew your relative. Back in villages, it’s a way to socialize with old friends
65-66. 7th form students translating letters from my students
67-70. tour of local cereal factory
71-73. my workshops for district teachers (city and surrounding villages). Most of these English foreign language teachers had never met a native English speaker.
74. out to lunch at the only restaurant in town. Very extravagant, paid for by grant $ by IREX for my workshops
75-76 Spring festival performance.
77. local Peace Corps volunteer Natalie, from Portland/Vancouver area. Small world!
78. local office supply, copy shop; no copiers in school
79. School District office; Lyuda said, “let’s go in here and you’ll see them all sitting around doing nothing.” Pretty much!
80. Public library; here showing off computer and internet access through US grant.
81. Palace of culture. Terrible building. Smells like pee. A large theater where we rented costumes for the spring festival and Ukranian folk festival (more grant $).
82. Bus station on the road to Kirovograd, as I’m leaving the country. Typical public building, needs serious maintenance
83. Spent night in Kirovograd, where Lyuda’s daughter Vika lives and works as journalist. View of city from ferris wheel in large park.
84-85 Nice Kirovograd architecture
86-87 Park in Kirovograd; Lyuda has taken her students on “excursions” here; 45 minutes away on bus.
88. Lyuda and I, Kirovograd
89. Vika’s kitchen
90. Kirovograd church, listened to famous choir
91. Kirovograd university, teacher’s college.
92. Kirovograd; Chernobyl monument
93. Kirovograd supermarket, many open bins
94. Kiev, where I flew from; spent the previous evening walking around the downtown.
95-105. Kiev: clean and busy big city. Beautiful architecture and churches galore!
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