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Hi Jon! Wow, just read your diary - hope you're both ok over there! You were lucky nothing happened to you during the taxi drive. Hope everything works out for you and that you find a flat to live in soon!! Many greetings from Finland, it's getting colder and colder... x

Knowing the experience
I know all to well some of the joys you are experiencing as you enjoy life in Kyiv. Finding an apartment, dealing with drunks (have you ever been kissed by an overly drunk parton of filth yet?) and missing the familiarity of home and the adventure of always being on the go. At least, in your adventure, you have the joy of speaking the local language (beyond saying "I'm not Monday"). So, what is it you are looking for? It seems that you are still in that stage of life of restless wandering, where the freedom and wonder of adventure is what you want and not the idea of settling down and being stationary for a while. Do you think that maybe its too soon for you to put roots down?

Hey man. As for me, it's really interesting to read how 'foreigner' sees my country. I mean, what they see first. As someone said "we see it truily, when we see it first". I'm Ukrainian, live in the US now, but everytime I go back to Ukraine, I see and feel everything very similar to what you're describing here. And it doesn't really help that I know how is it there, and that a week before my flight I meditate over old pictures and videos, trying to prepare myself. So, keep on writing. Good luck with your job and life there. Very nice pictures

hey
Sounds like you have had a bit of a baptism of fire as far as stress goes on your first few weeks but I reckon you still have a lot to feel positive about now! The job is working out, you're with Ana etc.... It'll all work out fine, you'll see! xx