We have spent a good weekend with Oleg. He came today asking us to help him buy a scooter. He showed up with about 40% of the money needed, so either he's been saving or has asked his aunt or cousin or someone to help him out. Now I'll need to track down an Allen Wrench to enable us to carry it on trains, planes and buses as we travel between cities in the coming weeks. Parenthood - It's on! We did pass a hardware store on the walk on Friday to see the new apartment which we'll move into some time tomorrow. Our facilitator is in Kiev so we're on our own with the help of Natasha's (Land lady) friend Katya or her son Alexander) who both speak some English. Calling a cab will be about the most linguistically demanding thing we'll have to do.
We walked from the center of the city - Lenin Square back to the site of the new apartment, about 13 minutes or so. There are several cafe's, restaurants, and ice cream stands along the walk, along with other shops. Street musicians are on every block during the weekends, and a brass band plays near one of the pizza parlors every evening. About half of the restaurants have menu's in English with some humorous translations. Specialties becomes Special Ties for example. We have a couple of pictures of Lenin Street which makes up most of the walk. This city has not replaced its statue of nor streets named for Vladimir Lenin. Our current apartment for example is on Young Lenin Street.
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| View of Lenin Street |
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| Another section of Lenin Street, Kerch Ukraine |
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| View of some gardens along the walkway to one of the city beaches |
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| This shop is located just off of Lenin Square. The larger letters say "Missisipi" (Mississippi) in Russian, it's a shop full of various arcade games, Oleg loves the 'futbol kick' which clocks the speed of kicking a soccer ball. He's regularly in the 50+ Mph (80+ Kph) range. It's for right footers or I'd have tried it too! |
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