There Once Was a Dog
November 13, 2009, 1:06 am by AlexSome time ago we got this old Russian cartoon from our language teacher called Жил-был пёс (zhil-buil pyos) – There Once Was a Dog. I found it lying around on the hard-drive again today and thought I’d share it. It’s a great little story based on a Ukrainian folk tale. Beyond being a fun little [...]
Flu-cation spoiled!
November 10, 2009, 11:27 pm by AlexEmma and I are in week 2 of our 3 week national “quarantine”. An outbreak of Swine Flu in the western part of Ukraine led the government to cancel classes in every educational institution in the country. So we have 3 weeks off! Well, not exactly. My school had already scheduled a “fall break” for [...]
First frost
November 2, 2009, 10:47 pm by AlexOn my way to school this morning, I walked under a tree (maybe a Chestnut) that was dropping it’s big leaves like they were going out of style. Every tree around it was already bare, but this one had kept most of its leaves until today. We had our first serious frost last night which [...]
