This picture really doesn't do my room justice and besides I have straightened it up and moved things around. It is bigger than my room at home without the closet. I wake up to light flooding through the curtains. A door opens to the balcony which has it's own windows. The table is very large and I am spread out all over it as there is lots of preparation for language and my environmental project. The post-its are Russian words I'm trying to learn. I love the pillows which are big, square and feather stuffed. The comforter or some cases, blanket are inside a duvett cover.	Post-its come in handy when learning new words and thank goodness for flat files--table.
Larissa, holding the bag, loves parties and dancing. Here, Karen, Jason, Larissa and Galina, Karen's host mom are heading to a party.	The household starts really moving about 7 as Vlad begins his day of overseeing his two stores and driving Vica, to school. Larissa scurries around the kitchen getting breakfast for the 3 children--I am one of them. She is constantly urging us to eat, eat. I seem to be the only PVC in our group that doesn't have a problem eating anything, anywhere. I haven't had any Ukrainian food that I didn't like! Olya is out the door at 8 and I start my 30 minute walk at 8:30.
When I get home about 4 or 5, I have the real joy of being greeted by these two smiling faces--Vika, 8, and Olya, 6. Vika is studying English and is so proud when she can translate or say something to me. Olya gets this gleam in her eye when she helps me try to roll the Russian "R."	Notice the fun wallpaper in the kids room. They take turns sharing the room with me--sleeping at night in the other bed.

Olya likes having her picture taken as much as she likes cartoons.

His children are the apple of Vlad's eyes. Here he  puts drops in Vica's eyes.

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