Just a little update. I have been at my site now for over 24 hours. Already my fellow volunteers here in the city have invited me out to dinner, and my counterpart and her husband took me to a movie. The chronicles of narnia walden people are really starting to get old. Gotta be raisin' that money for the cause, you know? Well, it was fun nonetheless. Right now i am in an internet cafe near my apartment complex, sitting next to a little dude with a mullet playing grand theft auto and listening to hip hop. Strange to hear someone so young and shiiroi listening to that. My host mom, Tamila, and her son, Taras are really really nice people, and they speak English wery wery well. There are 4 other volunteers in the area, Kate, Melissa, Jonathan, and Terry. Terry is CD, and the others are teachers. The next thing to tell you is about how awesome our apartment is. There is a nice bathroom and i have my own bedroom. Tamila was very deferential today about not going inside my room without me, which was nice. She had a second comforter to put on my bed and said "ne mozhna." even after i said "mozhna." My new address, which you can use, will be available for those who email me. Also, this cafe is annoying me because I can't open my gmail. Be advised. I know i'm sort of rambling at this point, but forgive me. I would like to get internet at my apartment. So I can ramble there. The restaurant that my new friends took me to last night, called "maidan," or town square, was really neat, with the ambiance and all. They had a stage, but we didn't stay for the live band. But they did have VH1 classic on the tvs, so i got my fill of 'pass the dutchie' et al. Taras and I watched two movies last night, Cloudy with a chance of meat balls, and Hooligans (or Green St. Hooligans) with elijah wood. I can kind of understand some ukrainian/russian, respectively. Oh well. I guess I'll let that be all for now. Sorry for the unconstructed thoughts, but I'm paying by the hour here, and I'll have a better post ready on my flashdrive for next time.