Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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

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