My daughter is coming home from her mission in Eastern Ukraine today. She'll arrive in Idaho around midnight tonight. Unfortunately, I don't get to go see her until my younger girls get out of school on June 8. But I'll get to call her and email her whenever I want so that will have to do for now.
Welcome home Cheri!!!!
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Hey, welcome home to her!! That's very cool. Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
That's great! How awesome. Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Oh yay!
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Yay! And Eastern Ukraine? That's so cool! My ancestors lived in the southern end of the Ukraine back in the 1800s. I've always wanted to go there.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I never really thought about Ukraine before she was called... except I knew that's where Anatevka is in "Fiddler on the Roof" and where most of Enchantment is set. And of course, they were part of the **Evil Empire** of the Soviet Union.
Cheri taught some English classes while she was on her mission, and for one of their assignments, she had two of her students write to me. I've kept up an email penpal correspondance with one of them, Sergey, which has been really exciting and entertaining to me. It's been wonderful to get his perspective of the changes since the fall of the USSR and of the recent elections there. He's in his mid-30's, and was in the military in the late '80's. I hope he's as interested in hearing about life in Maui as I am about life in Dnipropetrovs'k.
We've been trying to learn a little bit of Russian while she's been gone, but that hasn't gone as well as I'd hoped. I loved getting Russian birthday cards and Mother's Day cards though...
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