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So another few weeks has passed at site. This week I feel like I was able to see a lot of the city bouncing between dates and meetings and just exploring.

More project ideas have come to mind and after lots of meetings I'm working on deciding what it is I really want to do/ can do and how to do that. The week started speaking with my director and now I'm going to be doing tutoring with both her and the director of education for the city of Lviv. An opportunity that while it benefits them in the language department will hopefully benefit me in the end in the networking department and what I am able to do with my two years. On Wednesday, I had teh opportunity to meet with a group of people at a catholic charity that I was introduced to by Irene. A great party and interesting presentation on VanGogh and great to meet new people who I will hopefully become hooked up with and can do things with! On Thursday, I met with Linda which is always a joy. Talking to Linda makes me want to do something with my service beyond just teaching English. She's a great role model for service and life in general and I hope that even though she's heading back to teh states in summer we can remain in contact. Friday was meet your neighbor. Saturday I explored teh city finding great things to do at teh bazaar and it left me wanting to explore every bazaar here. I found a great spice guy and had a hand mixed spice in a small paper envelope to take home (great!) what else, the markets are great and now that springs coming I can feel the excitement in everyone around me. On sunday nite I went and saw Madame Butterfly with Dan and Lesya and their guests. As always things are wonderful adn I'm happy. new pictures on my facebook of the town. things are getting busy and I cannot wait for things to start taking off. I remind myself every day that patience is a virtue and hopefully if I work hard I will be rewarded. An unexpected high moment and reward one of my students brought me a beautiful purple hyacinth plant for International Women's day celelbrated widely in Ukraine, so much so that I have the day off of school.

loveyou all