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Last night we attended our first sporting event in Kyiv. BC Kyiv (BC stands for Basketball Club – everything’s a “club” here) took on Benetton at the soviet-style Palats Sportu arena. Unfortunately for us, it was not one of the Wolves better showings, as they lost 73 to 89. However, there was much amusement to be had by the crazy Americans in the 12th row.
No, not Barack, Rudy and Hillary. I’m talking about Viktor, Viktor, and Yulia. That’s right, this weekend is the highly anticiapated Ukrainian national elections. For those of you that don’t follow Ukrainian politics closely (like me), check out The Kyiv Post…or this. What I do know of the politics here is confusing, so if you don’t really get it, don’t worry. Bottom line: elections are this weekend.
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.
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.