Perhaps to you we look like a couple of Ukranians -- not to the natives.
We only have to step into a restraurant and we are given English menus before we have uttered a single word.
It appears as if we are walking through a Christmas tree lot, but actually this is just a sidewalk along Bogdana Khmelnitzkogo Oolitza. About the second week in December all of the little florist stands lining the sidewalks begin to sprout evergreens.
We miss the festive street lighting and decorations of home. That is not something we have seen here, but the Donetsk merchants do light up their windows and store fronts.
We will not spend Christmas in Donetsk, though. We have moved from Donetsk to Lugansk.
(More about that later.)
It has been a long, drawn-out move . . . but at last we are getting settled in our new apartment.
It is (finally) beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Here in Lugansk we made an amazing discovery, and we will share if you promise not to spread the word.
Right in the building where we live we found a very famous character!
I ran across him quite unexpectedly, looking over his list and checking off naughty and nice! At first I didn't really believe my eyes. I mean, it couldn't really be . . . could it???? Then he looked up at me .... and I just knew!!
(Remember. You must not tell.)
I didn't realize that Ukraine was so close to the north pole!
ReplyDeleteThere are some really weird things in your apartment. (Other than Santa)
ReplyDeleteyou're right . . . or they're right - you do not look native to Ukraine, but it is not your clothes!
ReplyDeleteDid you get to make your own Christmas gingerbread decor or did Santa drop it off? How bout the dog, the weird wooden statue and the candle tree? Oh, the icicle lights - are they the same as here? I like how they lit their pilars instead of it being just a string wound up.