Thursday night we went to a futbol game, Ukraine vs. England. Me and a couple of other girls went a little bit late because we were teaching, but there was still plenty of the game when we get there. We had to walk a long ways and finally got there and found our seats. We were in the row with all of the other ILP volunteers and we were just a row of yellow because of the jersey's we were wearing. haha
They boys next to us were drunk and hardly knew any English. But they still tried hitting on us. And failed. We just said 'Nyet' a lot. There was a man that was even more drunk than them in front of us. He knew more English and was just very funny. He gave us some sunflower seeds and said, "These are Ukrainian Big Mac." haha
I thought that we were going to lose, we had 3 minutes left and the score was 0-1. Then we scored. The crowd went wild and it was sooo much fun. :)
When we were walking to the Metro to get home we were in this huge crowd. It was so cool because everybody around us were singing and chanting the same things, clapping and jumping at the same time. It was amazing, we tried to do the same as everybody else but it was just cool to be there.
Friday night was a surprise. We knew that we were going to sleep over at Brittany's apartment with her host mom and some of here host moms friends. We hear rumors of a photo shoot but nobody could confirm anything. We all walked to her apartment together and went up. This was the nicest apartment I have ever seen, not just in Ukraine, but ever. Everything was new and top of the line. They had Swarovsky crystal on all the door knobs, their little girl had a princess bedroom that was like 2 times bigger than the room I sleep in. It was just amazing. There were all these dresses, necklaces, and other accessories laid out. Vica (Brittany's host mom) said to pick out whatever we wanted to wear and she was having sushi sent up for us to eat. So we all picked out fun outfits (I donned Ukrainian fashion) and ate delicious sushi and then did hair and makeup. We were having so much fun. :)
Then we all climbed and squished into her brand new Lexus and drove to the high school futbol field. We had to basically climb down to the field because our heals were so high. When we got down there, Vica pulled out these brightly colored lanterns and we lit them. She took a lot of pictures of us with these. (I haven't gotten them from her yet.) Then we let them go into the sky. It was like the movie, Tangled. Just so magical. (I really hope that none of these fire fueled lanterns fell into the city or onto anybody. I haven't heard of any fires yet....)
After this we were going to go to a club that translates into Sorry Grandma. hahaha But we decided to go to a place much more quiet. It was so great. Carlie, Vica, Katya, Brittany, and I were dancing and just having a ball. :)
Then we went home and got into our pajamas and talked until about 4 in the morning.
Saturday morning, Carlie and I woke up around 8 and went back to our apartment to get ready for the day. We went down to the Metro and just explored some of the city. We wound up finding our way to Souvenir Street. It was beautiful. The weather, the people, everything was fabulous. We stopped at KOOE XAY3 (we think that it is like the Starbucks of Ukraine) and got some pistachio gelato. I literally died and went to heaven. Too good. We just kept walking around and exploring.
Just a wonderful wonderful day. :)
Then we went home and ate some more icecream and watched a movie and went to bed.
I love it here so far and am so happy :)
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