Monday...Tuesday...Wednesday...Thursday...

Alright, here is a quick run down of my week.  Sunday night, Sasha asked me to draw her.  We had a lovely chat and she drew me after I finished her.  It was really fun.  Monday was relatively pleasant.  My host dad was freaked because since I had lost my voice I wasn't talking to him in Russian and I was coughing.  So he made Natasha ask me what was wrong.  I told them that I was speaking too much at school and so I had developed the cough.  They went and got me a lemon and honey (the honey here is awesome) and cut the lemon in slices and made me eat the whole thing dipped in honey...rhine and all.  Yes, I know I'm not going to have any teeth but it did help.  Monday night, I got food sick again.  Tuesday, I hated the world but particularly the Kievian part of it and didn't eat anything all day long.  My host mom freaked out but I don't think Ukrainians understand what you should eat when your sick so not eating anything was the easier solution to trying to explain..."Please don't give me anything fried, pickled, covered in milk, or sopping in oil.  And don't make me eat a whole plate heaping with stuff."  She asked me what was wrong and I said everything is different.  She asked me what we eat in America and I tried to explain that it's mostly the same just cooked differently.  I don't think she understood that but she understood that I said something about potatoes and from the last few nights meals, I think I may be eating potatoes for the next 4 months...heehee.  Wednesday, I felt much better.  I got up early wrote a (I hope) grammatically correct note in Russian to my host mom.  She'd left out some oladshi for me which happen to be my favorite Ukrainian food.  So I found some smetana (sour cream) and started eating.  But then I noticed there was some jam on the table.  It looked way sketchy but I really wanted jam so I ate it anyways (anyone still wondering why I'm getting sick?).  Then I met Meagan to go to the art museum my guide book said was free on the last wednesday of the month.  When we got there we found a sign that I set to translating from Ukrainian into Russian into English.  5 minutes later we realized there was a sign in english at the next door but I had translated it correctly.  my guidebook was off by a week.  It was the first wednesday of the month.  So we decided that we'd come back next week.  But we decided to try the blini stand across the street in the park that my guide book said was the best in the city.  So we went up and decided what we wanted and I ordered using instrumental case!!!!  блин с шоколадом!!!  Go me!  I got one with honey and Meagan got one with jam.  They were sooooooo good.  So...much to the chagrin of the Russian lady in the stand...we were back 5 minutes later for 2 chocolate blini.  They were delicious as well.  They warm the topping up so they are melty and runny in the middle of the blini which is rolled up and served in hot dog bags because they are that big.  Such fine food.  That night, I went to institute which was really fun.  Then today, I had a good day.  I made bears in pajamas with my kids which they absolutely loved.  So that was really fun.  I really really love the basic reading kids because they can actually talk to me.  Today we talked about wearing socks to bed and where bananas grow.  It was funny.  Well, that's all the news from Kiev.  Hope you all are doing well!  Much love!