So this week, Jered and I spent our Memorial Day afternoon looking for steals at a thrift shop. One of my deals was a three in one Lord of the Rings book. For a dollar.
I partially bought it because I've been wanting to read them for a few years now, but I also have very fond memories of the book in relation to our Ukraine trip in 2010. That's right fellow Trinity students- three years ago, right now, we were in Ukraine. I can't believe it's been that long. I honestly dreaded that trip most of the year, and it ended up being one of my most cherished memories from TIU days.
Wondering how Lord of the Rings played in there? Well, in our spare time at night, Eric Anderson would seek out one of the many songs throughout the book, and perform them for us. It was a great source of entertainment for us.
Hopefully I posted that correctly, and you are able to see it.
It truly was a wonderful experience. I kept a daily journal in the form of letters to tell Jered all about what we did.
We had a translator who was with us for a third or so of the time, and by the time he had to go home to his family, he told us he was heartbroken because he felt like he was leaving another family.
We performed an outside concert with the Ukrainian bands at a park, and there was so much cottony fluffs flying through the air that it was hard to breathe and we were constantly itching our faces because it kept tickling us.
We went to the Chernobyl museum, saw many old churches, shopped at all the little street booths for souvenirs, got upset when there wasn't enough quiet time on the tour bus, and ate a lot of borscht.
We got ridiculously excited when we found a McDonald's.
We really missed "flat" water.
We visited a bakery.
We broke the dress code.
We played a ton of music.
Some of us played our last concert ever.
Maybe I'll dig out my old letters and let you know what else we did later this week.
Until then,
Aim
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