So I’ve decided that maybe I haven’t done a very good job so far of describing what average Ukrainian life is like. Believe it or not, not every day is all George Michael concerts and buying puppies on the street. So I’m going to start a new series of posts here called “Realities of Ukrainian Life” (based on the title of a class I took at FSI called “Realities of Foreign Service Life”) and I want your input. Post a comment and let me know what you’d like to know more about Ukraine. For this week, I’m starting with Ukrainian Food.
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What is Ukraine? Is it more European or more Russian? This is a question I have been pondering since our arrival here. And I think I finally got my answer this week - it’s stuck somewhere in the middle.
We are at the end of week 1 of the struggle to obtain reliable internet access for our apartment. Last Saturday Shawn and one of our Russian-speaking friends went to the office of a company that supplies the internet to our building. According to Shawn, it went fairly well. “Now we’re getting somewhere,” we thought.