November 12th, 2009
Well life is all well on the home front. I’m just sitting hear the fireplace enjoying the warmth before getting ready to do my lesson planning for technical tutoring tomorrow. Today after getting back to my dodoma (home) and lesson planning with Allison, I enjoyed hanging out in the kitchen with my host grandmother, Vala. She is 49 wears the pants of this family and has the best sense of humor ever.
I got to help prepare the ingredients for the borscht as well as mix “zap pee kon ka” which is a dish that contains apples diced up, cheese, and rice, then is topped off by being covered with a scrambled egg then cooked in the oven for around 45mins. It actually looks like it is pretty good but I can’t say yet. I also peeled 13 (thre nad set) potatoes (car toe pla) which probably took me a good 20 minutes when I pretty sure my host mother could have done them all in under 5 minutes. But she loves me and lets me learn/ feel like I’m contributing to the family.
Also chilling with Kanopa (which means button) a nice calico cat that is my favorite out of the three of the house. We met with our teacher that we are interning for and heard that it is rumored that it might be another 2 weeks of quarantine added on to the end of next week. If that happens we could only have the chance to teach the last week before teaching which would be a really bummer since I haven’t had the chance to get into the class room myself.
My host mother brought home mandarins tonight. My house grandmother and I in our PJs took this opportunity to have a juggling contest. I must actually admit that she was a little better than me. Haha, o good times in Ukraine (there is a photo on face book to prove it). Well I’m getting tired and still have things to do. I’m headed to bed. Hopefully write more tomorrow summing up week number 4 here in the motherland.
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