I know I've been a slacker with the blogging, because this country has left me with no expectations and therefore surprises. But just when you think you've seen/experienced it all, Ukraine comes and slaps you one across the face!!!

I was out tonight with my brother and sister in an Irish pub in Kiev watching the World Cup with Rachel, Elizabeth and Rachel's friends from the States who are here visiting. So we're watching the game when this super drugged up chick comes up and starts being ridiculously loud and obnoxious and speaking horrible English to us. We ginore her, but as always it continues. So finally I get up and say, "why don't you leave my ladies alone?" The rest of the convo goes something like this;

Chick: This is your girlfriend? (speaking about Rachel's friend who this chick was reallybothering)
Me: Yes.
Chick: They are all your girlfriends?
Me: Yes.
Chick: Are you a man or a woman?
Me: Can't you see my boobs? I'm a woman!
Chick: Oh! I'm a man! But tomorrow I will be a woman and then the next day I will be a man!

And then there was a lot of touching on her part and me making an extremely uncomfortable face. For the rest of the night she kept coming over to our table and I would always cringe in fear of being molested at the table again. Glad I escaped more of that!!

In other news- my whole family's here right now! It's been great! They came to my town and today we went to my host family's site, where we got a tour of the entire city. We also hung out at my host family's house, where my parents had the culture shock of seeing a super big vegetable garden out back and my host family had the shocked of seeing Americans think that tiny plot of land was big. It was super interesting!

It's really late right now, and apperently I've had a long day of many different adventures, but I promise I'll write tomorrow. Cross my heart.