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Graduation Speech

Emma and I attended our second graduation ceremony here last week, and I gave my second graduation speech. I wrote the thing in English (as simple English as possible), translated it myself, and then got help from my Russian tutor to correct the mistakes. Then I practiced it for a week. My Russian’s improved over [...]


Earth Day

In more work-related news, I thought I’d share an activity our school did for Earth Day this year.  Below is what I wrote when I nominated them for an award that is being given out by volunteers in PC Ukraine’s Environmental Working Group.  I don’t know that we did anything award-winning, but it was pretty [...]