Once I lived in Ukraine...

June 7, 2011
5 months

141 days

20 weeks

7,000 miles away from home 

9,300 kilometers

25 scared girls

1 day of training

1 "mild" winter

6 different languages

5 different currencies

72 hours in train rides

5 metro passes

3 big dogs

1 parrot

1 cat

200+ fish

1 host brother

2 babushkas

7 friendly parcels of mail

27 awesome Americans

30+ hours of skype time with family and friends

79 episodes of Gilmore Girls

4 awesome jam sessions on Rock Band

50 hours on a tour bus (approximate)

447 games of Unblock Me

50 metro stops

1 desire to work for the American Embassy one day

1 Black Sea

5 Kyiv Temple trips

1 Cooking class

1 Sleepover with all the girls

6 different months

12 hours of Russian class

3 Tanias

1 culture shock 

1 bathroom shared by

6 people in my house

3 coordinators at my school

2 many hours on facebook and gmail

1 piano to play

1,000,000,000,000+ flying cotton things

1,000,000+ pigeons

40+ visits to McDonalds

39 songs on my "coming home" playlist

42 blog posts

1500+ page views

9 followers

48 comments

1 author, ME

32 hours of total travel time home

3 airports

8 hour layover in Munich

3 different sized airplanes

16 hours of flight time

12 stamps in my passport

1 night in LA for missing our flight

9 hour time difference

1 bag of no bake cookies brought by

2 awesome parents and 

1 sister greeting me at the airport

1 not hungry stomach, but

1 exhausted girl, happy to be back

Thank you all for your support and love =) I have enjoyed sharing all my adventures with you! 


The End