Soviet Love Scene <3

YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!! Alright Spring Break! I am so happy:) I love the sun, and the beach, and the ladies.

Wait wait wait, just one second now. I’m in Ukraine. Oh yeah:( Bummer. That means Spring Break is the absolute same as any other week. I guess I am happy for all of my friends back in the States or wherever they may be living it up under the sun.

I wasn’t lying I really do love the sun, and shiny bodies ,and all that good stuff, but I’m doing fine without all the niceties. The weather is gradually getting better here in Ukraine. Right now my heater is on the lowest possible setting, which is good for two reasons: 1. its getting warmer outside and 2. my landlady won’t come around and tell me my apartment is too hot (what’s up with that).  Back to the weather. Yeah, so, instead of the sun setting at 4 o’clock in the afternoon – I was wondering why I was so SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), the sun has been setting at the nice healthy hour of 6 o’clock.

Don’t get me wrong the sun is great and all, but that doesn’t mean everything is fine and dandy. When the sun comes out after its Winter nap everything gets really nasty. Why? Because all the snow melts and turns into brown, gray, mud. It’s nasty.

Besides the nastiness of Ukrainian streets in small towns, I still have a week off of school for Spring Break and I’m making the most of it. Yesterday I went on an excursion with my buddy Leosha. I have to tell a little back story on why I went on this excursion in the first place: the other day for fun I googled restaurants in Krasonodon, the small city where I live here in Eastern Ukraine, and found some pretty cool information about the town written by an Ex-Pat who lives in Lugansk - sorry for dropping all of the names of places that you guys have never heard about. So the site I found was on virtual tourist and it had links on interesting things to do in Krasnodon. I told Leosha that on the outskirts of town that there is an ancient wall that’s over 1,000 years old. We checked out some pics then decided to go out and find the site. After getting on a huge soviet trolley bus we were on our way.

On the ride there Leosha and I were having a discussion on the exact location of this so called ancient wall. The information on the site said it is by a cemetery and to take a certain bus. So with that information in hand we began to search the steppe for signs of ancientness. I spotted a cross atop a church in the distance and from there we figured that the cemetery would be nearby and our wall. And it was. The only bad part was that we had to trek across the steppe to get there, a muddy situation indeed. Once we arrived to the wall by sneaking through on old soviet cemetery (creepy) it was pretty anti-climactic. The wall, or rubble was weak sauce. The guy who estimated the wall to be around 1,000 years old might have been a couple of centuries off with his calculations.

It was worth the trip though. We found this old building in the middle of the steppe that looks like an old Star Wars vehicle that you would find on Tatooine. I really have no idea what the building is. What do you think? At the top of this building there are doors that I think used to open and close.

Oh my!!! What other adventures will I seek out on my way back home?