Today, we’re celebrating Victory Day – like all good Ukrainians do on May 9th. We’re going to Yalta before we fly to Kiev this evening. Tomorrow morning, we fly back to NYC then Nashville. We “pulled a double” yesterday and really are happy about the work that was completed this week. It’s easy to see [...]
Hello all, Wednesday evening here and we’re back at Yuri’s. We had a great start to the day this a.m. Before we left for Max’s house a truck pulled up and we proceeded to unload sixty 50 kilo (110 lb.) bags of cement. When we got to Max’s house here comes the same driver with sixty more [...]
The gash in my head is healing nicely. Ten minutes into day one, I ducked a piece of falling angle iron that put a nice dent in my forehead. The “bloody American” was my name for the day. Several of us have nicknames. Sergei is “John Belushi” thanks to looking like the Samuri warrior character [...]
We just arrived back at Yuri’s place from our second day of work on Maks’ house. The house was not as far along as we had originally thought. We are putting up inside walls (masonry) as well as dry walls and plaster. For the construction neophyte it has been on the job training. I might [...]
We arrived in Sevastopil yesterday after a 17 hours on the train. We have met Maks and his family and seen the house we are to work on today. We’ve met our interpreter, Ira, and her family. Her husband, Edward, is a local pastor. We will head out for Maks’ house about 8:30 today. All [...]
