Thursday, January 15, 2009

Personality. The personalities of people can make or break a group. It is good to know how your team members react to different situations and what pushes their buttons. This morning we spent time telling about our personalities and what to do if we are upset. This way our team members know how to help the situation and not make it worse. God has always blessed me with great team members. But I have seen some groups fall apart and ruin everything they were working for. In the afternoon we were joined by Roma and Svetlana and went to the Ukrainian WW2 museum, they were there to translate for us. I did not know that there were concentration camps here. They had tons of pictures (good thing since I can't read anything) of people and I was surprised to see so many women that served in the forces.

These are my journeywomen roommates Mary Ann and Sarah. We are in front of the museum that is under "Big Mama". No kidding, that's what Ukrainians call her!


This is a view of Kiev showing a cathedral in the background and one of their eternal flames. The walk way leads out from the museum to the city. By the way the flame it not on and we decided it is because of the natural gas crisis, but really we don't know.


This is their smaller eternal flame (which is on). If you stand back and squint it looks like the Washington Monument in DC. So close to home, yet so far away!

That evening Mary, Hannah, Joanna, and Whitney were in charge of cooking dinner. They fixed fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuits, peach cobbler, and there was even sweet tea! It was a great southern meal, bet you thought I wouldn't find anything normal to eat!

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