Rest, the circus and wrap up.

Our past week was quite quiet. The staff and students at UBI had their fall break last week and many of them took this time to have a break from Donetsk. We didn't have much to do either so we shopped, walked and hung out with our friend Nazar for pretty much the whole week.



I bought a pair of jeans in the open market and made Laurie laugh. This is because I was changing behind a curtain and apparently I wasn't using the curtain properly. She said my butt was hanging out pretty much the whole time!

On Saturday we treated ourselves to an outing to the circus. Quite affordable actually, only about 15 bucks for the two of us to go. Our expectations were fairly low at first thinking it would be an animal show more than acrobatics but the first act made us realize we were in for a treat. There was high flying flips, swinging from poles, lots of humor and a live band. The good definitely out weighed the bad. Afterwards though our ears craved silence...sooo many kids having sooo much fun.





This week is our last and it is filling up quickly. Today we did some errands and visits. Now everyone wants to see us before we leave. Tomorrow we think the students at UBI are doing something for us. We were asking Lena earlier today if her and Vova wanted to come over for a visit and a meal after classes tomorrow but Lena laughed and said we couldn't have guests tomorrow because we ARE the guests at UBI tomorrow. That was the first we had heard of that ... so I guess we'll see what thats all about tomorrow.

Last Friday we found out that the postal office has two packages for us. We assume they are the boxes from Journey church VBS program. They have shirts and stuffed animals in them. We were hoping they would be delivered today but not so far. We were told that they could come at five or even tomorrow so we are hoping for sooner rather than later. If we can we will deliver these donations before we go but it all depends on when they get delivered and if we can organize where to take them soon.

This will be our last post from the Ukraine as we leave on Sunday and our time is quickly being booked up this week. We will of course post another when we get back to Calgary. I'm sure there will be plenty to share from this week and our trip home. Thank you for following our journey thus far.