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Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Telling It Like It Is
Last Sunday I was able to have a telephone link with my church in Australia. One person wrote me an email after that and asked "what do you actually do each day Jono?"
Good question.
Easy to answer? Not always, it's often so different.
Let me describe a few hours from this week.
Monday was my day off so I went into Kiev to spend the afternoon with a friend. I missed the last bus home so had to stay in Kiev the night. I got up early, walked to the Metro station, caught two metros (underground railway) to the bus terminal and then caught the first van to Rahzishiv. That's about 1 1/2 hours and then I walked 15 mins to my place, picked up my computer and walked 5 more mins to Dan's place and just made it in time for team meeting (a once a week event). I missed prayer time and breakfast.
Team meeting went til about 11 am because we had a lot to discuss regarding upcoming summer events and some changes to our team night on Monday nights. After that I did a quick send and receive of emails (was able to be quite quick - about 15 mins). Then I walked home, took a shower and got ready for my language lesson. I had done my homework (good boy) so I just revised it and then walked about 25 mins to the school for my language lesson which lasted for a bit more than an hour. I then walked home via a few shops to buy some meat, cereal, tomato sauce, sour cream, a frying pan and few little things for youth group on Friday night.
I was home by about 4:30 and brought the washing in and then tried to adjust the furnace to get the heating to a desirable level in our house (seems to be too hot or too cold).
I cooked dinner just for Matt and myself. Had dinner and did the washing up and then I sat down at the computer to work on a sermon for Sunday. I worked on that til about 10 pm and then talked to Rhani for a while. I loaded the photos I had taken in Kiev on to my computer and then headed for bed and tried to read but was too tired and fell asleep.
7:00 am Wednesday I was up and having a shower and breakfast and quiet time. Did a bit of washing and just small household things. Then from 9 til 11 I sat down and attempted to concentrate on my Ukrainian homework. I had to write a paragraph in Ukrainian describing my bedroom. I am getting good at flicking through the dictionary but that doesn't help me to know what form of the word to use for the correct grammar.
And now it's a bit after 11am and I am typing this out to put off answering the 30 emails that need answering. (maybe I can just send this to everyone).
After lunch I'll be going to the school where I have Ukrainian lessons and taking an English class. I'll be talking about Australia and New Zealand and making it a fun light lesson. It is the last week of school before exams and then a long summer holiday.
Then tonight I'll work on youth group stuff. I have devotions to prepare, the program and check that I have the things I need and any translation done. I also want to make a movie to show them of themselves.
It's hard to describe life in words. Please ask anytime you want to find out more.
Good question.
Easy to answer? Not always, it's often so different.
Let me describe a few hours from this week.
Monday was my day off so I went into Kiev to spend the afternoon with a friend. I missed the last bus home so had to stay in Kiev the night. I got up early, walked to the Metro station, caught two metros (underground railway) to the bus terminal and then caught the first van to Rahzishiv. That's about 1 1/2 hours and then I walked 15 mins to my place, picked up my computer and walked 5 more mins to Dan's place and just made it in time for team meeting (a once a week event). I missed prayer time and breakfast.
Team meeting went til about 11 am because we had a lot to discuss regarding upcoming summer events and some changes to our team night on Monday nights. After that I did a quick send and receive of emails (was able to be quite quick - about 15 mins). Then I walked home, took a shower and got ready for my language lesson. I had done my homework (good boy) so I just revised it and then walked about 25 mins to the school for my language lesson which lasted for a bit more than an hour. I then walked home via a few shops to buy some meat, cereal, tomato sauce, sour cream, a frying pan and few little things for youth group on Friday night.
I was home by about 4:30 and brought the washing in and then tried to adjust the furnace to get the heating to a desirable level in our house (seems to be too hot or too cold).
I cooked dinner just for Matt and myself. Had dinner and did the washing up and then I sat down at the computer to work on a sermon for Sunday. I worked on that til about 10 pm and then talked to Rhani for a while. I loaded the photos I had taken in Kiev on to my computer and then headed for bed and tried to read but was too tired and fell asleep.
7:00 am Wednesday I was up and having a shower and breakfast and quiet time. Did a bit of washing and just small household things. Then from 9 til 11 I sat down and attempted to concentrate on my Ukrainian homework. I had to write a paragraph in Ukrainian describing my bedroom. I am getting good at flicking through the dictionary but that doesn't help me to know what form of the word to use for the correct grammar.
And now it's a bit after 11am and I am typing this out to put off answering the 30 emails that need answering. (maybe I can just send this to everyone).
After lunch I'll be going to the school where I have Ukrainian lessons and taking an English class. I'll be talking about Australia and New Zealand and making it a fun light lesson. It is the last week of school before exams and then a long summer holiday.
Then tonight I'll work on youth group stuff. I have devotions to prepare, the program and check that I have the things I need and any translation done. I also want to make a movie to show them of themselves.
It's hard to describe life in words. Please ask anytime you want to find out more.
