http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Ukraine , Chernobyl en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:48:33 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:48:33 UTC It doesnrsquot matter where you live you canrsquot get away from raking leaves. Maybe if you live in California and not with your Dad. Those are the only 2 ways really. But here in Ukraine I find myself raking leaves. I remember ways me and my siblings would try and get out of it. We would first do a lot of pretending that we didnrsquot hear my Dad asking us to come help him. Or we would hop http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-349687.html So I finally got a cat. I had to go half way around the world to do it but I got one. I really wanted to name her Kartoepla means potato in ukrainian or Mogwai as in the cute character from gremlins but she was not either of those. Finally it came to mehellipNala. Yes from lion king. But she thinks she is a small lion except when she sees the chickens in our neighbors yard and hides behind me. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-338218.html this is my new lion...nala. she's crazy and thinks im a tree. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-336042.html Please remember that we have highs and lows in this country and the last story was a little sad but I thought it was so ridiculous that I had to write about it. Granted there was a point where I was highly frustrated but as our organization says always be flexible so I was being flexible to the fact that I might sleep in the Mcdonalds. And yes I exaggerate a bit for example I can order pretty well http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-331409.html It was any other day except i was in Ukraine. The little detail can throw waking up in a village of 4000 out the window. You donrsquot get cereal you get soup you donrsquot get toilet paper you get sand paper instead. Of course toilet paper is available but it costs the same amount as a first rate engagement ring. So its sand paper then. But so it was an ordinary Ukraine day even though we w http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-328937.html So on a cloudy cold day in Kiev we make our way to the street the travel agent told us to meet up with her and she will make sure we get on the van for the trip for Chernobyl this trip was not very easy for us to organize we were supposed to go a week earlier but last minute screw up by another travel agent sent us waiting it out in Kiev they need passport details etc and apparently paperwor http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-324866.html some quick photos of me http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-319826.html so this would be the only country that you might be told to not put on a seatbelt. I have been in my host father's car several times and each time i thought perhaps i might die. Why you ask Because we would be driving along and i would look at the speedometer and we would be going almost 100. So several times i would close my eyes hoping we would make it back home in one piece. So far we have. B http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-311777.html so im here in the village of lesky all by myself where i have been spending my days killing spiders in my new house. Now i just moved into my own house and my cool counterpart helped me wallpaper the kitchen wall with orange flowers. I was hoping to get the dolphin print paper but i think my counterpart might've of thought i was crazy so i went for the flowers. Just a few of my favorite things a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-304694.html sooo weve got about 3 weeks left in training then on to my actual site. This past week our site announcements were announced and i am goinggggggggg........... to a place called Lesky right on the river. the town is about 4000 people. Thats all i really know for now. I do know that ill be doing something with health lifestyle environmental awareness and maybe some recreation thrown in there to http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-281408.html Ukraine....yes im here and there are a few things i should have brought. For starters perhaps a bottle of shampoo instead of conditioner. I did not realize i was attempting to wash my hair with conditioner till 3 weeks in. Then i spent several days trying to find shampoo. I kept finding mens shampoo. Perhaps real running shoes some old long sleeved shirts to play soccer in a soccer ball and my http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-264937.html Bright eyed and bushy tailed we weren't this morning. We went to bed slightly later than we intended so getting Rob out of bed was a bit of a chore.We were picked up outside St Petersburg hotel at nine. An American man called Irwin came along which wasn't terrible because it did make the price cheaper. The drive to Chernobyl was pretty bad. It took almost an hour to get out of Kiev and our guide d http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-208635.html Stalker missionnbspEurope raquonbspUkraine raquonbspchernobyl By BurikApril 27th 2007Sergio BuravovToday I've been in the most incridible place of Ukraine it is Chernobyl radiation zone. Idea to travel here appeared a year ago after reading some article in Internet. It seem dangerous but at the same time exteme and adventerous. So with two my friends Bolik and Oleg we booked excursion a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-154425.html