Pirate Week and Birthday Parties

This week has been pretty fun. One day we played "pin the eyepatch on the pirate". The kids had a lot of fun. :)

Everyone lined up waiting to play

Vasil likes to dress up as a babushka :)

During our Basic Reading classes the kids get to draw when we finish our work. One kid loooves dinosaurs and sharks. I think this is some combination of the two... For some reason I love his drawings :P

Vlad, one of the Basic Reading kids, had his birthday on Tuesday, so we had a party during the last half hour. Vera set up little snacks for all of us. :)

Vlad (the birthday boy, can't you tell?), Ali, Sasha, Nastya, Anya, Dasha, Levon (dinosaur boy!), and Masha

Isn't it cute?

Dasha wore a cute party dress :)

In other news, the parents came and watched us teach on Wednesday. It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. They didn't even stay the whole time. It was a little awkward having to discipline the children in front of their parents though.

As far as the weekend goes, we're going to see the Lavra on Saturday. It's a high-ranking monastery with over a hundred burials. It also has a complex system of narrow underground caves. Should be neat.

Then next weekend we get 3 days off and we're taking a night train to L'viv! So excited. And then a week and a half after that we're going on our Euro tour. This should be a good month. :)