Ukraine! We Have Arrived!!!

We made it to Ukraine!! 

After two very busy days of paperwork, name-games and information in Washington DC all 106 of us got on a plane Tuesday afternoon headed towards Europe! Wednesday afternoon we arrived in Keiv, Ukraine.   The picture below is of all of us loading our luggage onto a truck and of the busses that we took up to Chernihiv! (notice the new airport building in the background, Kiev is doing a lot of work on its airport for the Euro Cup 2012!)

We were greeted by Peace Corps staff and then shuttled up to Chernihiv which is about 2 hours northeast of Keiv.  We will staying here for 2 days and then we will move to our training oblasts (kinda like a state) and in with our host-families tomorrow!  We are the largest training group that Ukraine has ever received which is pretty cool! With the large numbers they are not able to house everyone in the usual retreat center, I am staying at a hotel right next door.  Here are some pictures of the room/apartment!

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Today we start our language training. I will be (attempting) Russian! We also have to meet with a medical doctor and get a few shots and then have a wide variety of meetings, should be a busy and fun day!