Paul & Lauren’s Travels

When Paul and I are experiencing culture shock or need an escape from horrible customer service and bland food, we head to TGI Fridays. The door way to the restaurant is a mystical porthole to steak, tacos real food and waiters that speak English. It reminds us of home and makes us feel human again. Its great!

My First day at school… “Perchesk International School” . It is fantastic to finally be officially teaching after all the years at uni. I work in a early childhood unit of three classes. I have a class of 4-5 year olds. I love it In other words… as Paul says “I’m with puppies all the time”.

Just to make you all jealous! We live in waking distance to a market, open six days a week. The fruit and veg is amazing at the moment. All of the fruit tastes better that it looks! We are loving it!

For $1.50 Aus we can buy a huge cup full of ripe, plump and sweet raspberries. We would have a photo to show you but, were too busy eating them:) Unlike Australia the fruit here is hyper seasonal (and tasty), so we make the most of it. In the city there are apple and pear trees everywhere, Paul gets a kick out of that. It is quite a contrast to the white and grey in the middle of winter.

( I’m in the photo behind the old lady)

We have been in the Land of our dreams for one week. It felt so good, yet so surreal to arrive in Kiev. After being in transit (we need shirts that say “I survived Heathrow”) it was great to settle into our apartment.

Once we recovered from jet-lag, we really enjoyed exploring Kiev. We just catch the Metro, choose a direction and walk. We have discovered places we did not see on our last trip. We happened upon this Cathedral (yes we did walk around the front as well). It was beautiful and huge. They seem to like their Cathedral’s here!