Let the Adventures begin!!!

I'm finally here!!!

I felt like this day would never come. But alas, here I am in Kiev, Ukraine!
We travelled from Phoenix to New York, then from New York to Paris, and lastly, Paris to Kiev! It was the longest day ever. But a lot of fun. Especially once we got to Paris. The Paris airport is incredible! we had a 5 hour layover there, and we met up with most of the girls in our group. They are all super fun and nice and I'm so excited to get to know all of them better!

These things...
These cookies were AMAZING. It was all I could do to only eat two and save the last one for later. You would not believe the amount of trips to the currency exchange and the struggle Amber and I had to finally be able to buy some of these heavenly cookies. But oh was it worth it!

By the time we boarded our last flight, I was exaused. It was around noon in Paris, but it was around 3 AM for AZ time. Before  the plane even took off, I was bobbing my head trying to stay awake. I fell forward once and hit my head on the window of the plane, and the Fench guy sitting next to me started laughing at me.

While I'm on the subject of me making a fool of myself, I guess I'll share my funny experience once we arrived in Kiev.
 So we had just gotten off the plane and were all gathered around the luggage carousel waiting for our bags. Mine was the first to come, so as I pulled it off the carousel and started gathering the rest of my things, this man walks up to me (I don't know why he had to choose me, there were about 6 other girls right by me.) and he looks at me and starts speaking Ukrainian (or Russian) at me. This for some reasom completely freaked me out, and I had no idea what to do. So I didn't do anything but just stare at him with wide eyes. Finally, he stops talking to me mid-sentence, gets this disgusted look on his face and says "English." and walks away.
I turned to Amber, not knowing what really just happened, she laughs and says "Welcome to Ukraine!"

I haven't had much time to really sit down and talk with my Host mom yet, but I already love her! She is so cute and funny. And best part-she speaks English!
 Amber and I got into the same Host family! When we met up with the Native Coordnators at the airport, we were told that we were roomies and we both seriouly almost srarted crying we were so happy! haha :)
 Tomorrow we start training. I'm hoping I'll be able to catch on so I can teach the kids.

GOODNIGHT!