Hello all and sorry for the long break. We have been busy. It turns out that teaching 17 year olds to think is twice as difficult as it sounds and 9 year olds don't just finger-paint all day (who knew?). Seriously, our jobs are okay; at times they just plain suck (like last week when the school decided to pass out all of our personal contact information to all of our students--including our cell phone numbers...). However it is all balanced out by the pay, the no taxes, the living in a foriegn country, the city life, the fact that a 2 liter of beer costs less than fifty cents, the ability to travel around Europe for cheap, the fun we are having with people we meet, and the fact that there are no intelectual property laws in Ukraine (you can buy any movie in the subway for like 2 cents -- even ones that don't come out til 2010).
I have some pictures I will post later this week, but I do not have the time at the moment, as I need to grade some papers. Keep your eyes peeled, as I will get them up.
Oh, I also wanted to let everyone know that we will not be home for Christmas. We looked into it, but we decided that the cost would be too much and we would not have enough time to really hang out all that much. Hence we will be spending Christmas in Italy. We have booked the flights (220 dollars round trip), reserved hotels, and even ordered a guidebook. It should be a great deal of fun.
Well, I need to get back to work.
Da Svadanya
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So you like it there? Can you get by with just english?
ReplyDeleteI may apply for this:
http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=200910_2785
We have a friend who used to work for the university here. He left, for better pay at our job, but he enjoyed it. Don't get me wrong, this is not the United States, but it is a fun city. There is a ton to do. And everything is cheap.
ReplyDeleteI will email you about this all...