I'm still alive but too busy to post anything...

So, it's not that nothing has happened in the last week...far from it.  It's just that I'm much too busy to write it all out.  I've actually fallen behind in my journal writing.  But all sorts of things have happened.  I went on a vacation to the middle of nowhere Ukraine and ate and ate and slept.  My mom came.  The world celebrated the completion of the my second decade on this Earth with particularly exciting celebrations happening in all former Soviet Republics.  I met the patriarch of the Ukrainian orthodox church.  I danced with a Ukrainian in traditional costume.  It's been amazing.  But time is short so that's all I can say.  Love you all as evidenced by the fact that I'm actually coming home from Ukraine.  Seriously if I didn't love you all so much.  I'd totally stay here with Vanya...