Easter part 2

So, I was informed by my very good friend Justine while I was in DC that I’m a terrible blogger and need to update it more. So here this one’s for you, Justine.

So, I got back to Ukraine two days ago. The flight to Kiev from London was half empty, because, honestly, who (besides people visiting Peace Corps Volunteers) want to come to Ukraine? So I got a whole row to myself and took a nice little nap. After a nice long sleep and day of drinking tea and schmoozing at work, I called my friend Galya, who promptly told me to get my ass over to her house and hang out with her and her friend. I show up and she’s trashed! Apparently in Ukraine, Easter doesn’t last one day- it lasts three! And all three days you drink and eat and drink and eat. So what did we do yesterday? We drank and ate, of course! I show up and immediately an fed a shot of vodka. And then another. I drank 6 shots of vodka in an hour (although technically after the first 3 you’re not supposed to count shots. . . bad luck). Galya then turns to her friend Sveta and asks if she wants to go for a walk. I follow behind, and once we walk Sveta home, she asks if we want to come in for a drink. “I have gin upstairs”, she says. So we go up, and I look at this so-called “gin” and notice it’s brown. Then I look at the bottle and realize it’s not gin it’s whiskey! 3 shots of whiskey later I finally found my way home (with a little help from Galya, who walked me there).

Moral of the story- this Easter is up there with last Easter, where we started drinking at 7 in the morning and where Rachel ended up in a village wearing a Santa Claus sweater!