Summer Helpers

Last weekend Steve went to Kyiv to collect three American guys who will be here helping us out for the summer. Two of them - Andrew and Caleb are on practicum from G42 and the other one, Will was at a school in Romania and was looking for some kind of outreach over the summer.

I picked them up at the train station Sunday afternoon and we headed straight to their apartment. Steve saw it when it was still in a destroyed state but now it was all repaired and clean and is quite nice, other than a lingering smoke smell that they have yet to get rid of unfortunately.

Monday afternoon we headed out for groceries, a few housewares, SIM cards for their phones and to do a bit of exploring. Of course we hit up the American Embassy (McDonalds) and headed to the port where the Lenin statue used to stand. There's a great view of the dam and we shared a bit of history of the city.

 On Wednesday we were at church to hang out with Jessica and the grad orphan group. We spotted our first watermelons along the way so of course we had to grab one and it was amazing.