30th Nov Evening

From the place where Liuda, Sasha and I had lunch, we walked abut 20min to another restaurant, pretty similar style to the one where I had my lunch. I could not have anything else over there, I was too full. Beacuse there were about 6 of us, so we cant fit into any of the tables there which normally fit 4/5 people. Then we were in a children room where cartoon are playing and we have big tables at the back.

When we are there, we had random discusstion and because of jet lag, all of us from NZ were very quiet and tired. Some more @ers joined us for dinner and I did not get the chance to talk to one of them but this bubbly gal, Svitlana was there to ask a lot of questions.

So we left the restaurantand heading to the train station where i will catch my train to Lviv from Kiev. It was a 9 hours journey and there was some interesting stories there. I collected my bags in 2 different location around the train station because it was unconvenient to carrying my 20kg luggage around the city. Celia and Anistasiia left us to went back home and then Tania went for another meeting at 7pm and finally Mason and Tanya left to home. So I was accompany by this smart and cute Svitlana.

She is a very interesting @ers. And she is in the Young Leadership Development program where she was in Romania representing Ukranian parliment for discussion. She is also an English teacher. The impression I have on Kiev @ers are, they are insanely busy. They have work, uni and @ work and friends and etc. Yet, they can managed them, balanced them, and do well in many of the areas. I'm very impressed by them, especially when they are very young! 17-20 and they are so active in @ Kiev. I should really bring back some of them to inspire NZ, students of NZ. They should learn from this young Ukrainian student's, learn about thier energy, passion for the development of their country and actively participate in useful activities like @.

Back to the story... Making sure that my train is on latform 5, departing at 8.42pm, Svitlana got me a simcard to communicate with other @ers in Lviv. She suggested the cheapest Life :) It's is s cheap and it's free to call other Life :) numbers!!!

Finally I said goodbye to Svitlana on the train =( and I was on my own in the train with another 2 Ukrainian stranger in cabin VI...