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  • Success in Kiev [img=http://photos.travellerspoint.com/251976/Ki Posted by bbeckelman in Ukraine Adoption | Nov 25, 2009
  • Flu Quarantine Well it looks like the Ukraine government may lift the flu quarantine on Monday, Nov 23rd and so with high hopes I will be heading back to Kiev on Monday. Once I get back to Kiev, and providing the flu quarantine Posted by bbeckelman in Ukraine Adoption | Nov 22, 2009
  • Jeff Leaving Ukraine Jeff is starting his journey home to CA. He departed the train station about an hour ago with a 16 hour train trip ahead of him on his way from Mariupol to Kiev. Then he will overnight in Posted by bbeckelman in Ukraine Adoption | Nov 16, 2009
  • Kiev to Mariupol Before leaving Kiev, we visited the US Embassy and Jeff completed his part of the paperwork. Jeff is leaving Ukraine next week and needed to finish the paperwork. Next stop was the Kiev train station as we began Posted by bbeckelman in Ukraine Adoption | Nov 13, 2009
  • Leaving the States The adventure is about to begin as we leave beautiful, sunny Palm Springs, CA and head off to the Los Angeles airport. We are flying on Aeroflot from LAX to Moscow then have a four hour layover and fly Posted by bbeckelman in Ukraine Adoption | Nov 6, 2009
  • Ukraine is hell on earth! But locals are nice. 16/34 We woke up early and started heading out of Budapest. This was a mission in itself with a massive network of one ways and no entrys we didn’t experience on the way in they clearly didn’t want us to leave. Posted by LizaBrooks in Liza's Missions around the world | Aug 15, 2009
  • Poseidon Ruins the Party Our arrival to Georgia was meant to be highly romanticised, arriving by boat to the shores of Kolchis like Jason and the Argonauts (Kolchis is an ancient kindgom in western Georgia, and interestingly enough, to this day there are mountain Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Jul 20, 2009
  • Adventure has begun... A quick flight, and I'm in Kiev, meeting Chuck at the airport. Everything is in place. Central Kiev, we arrange for an overnight train to Odesa for that night, which gives us a few hours to kill looking around the oldest Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Jul 12, 2009
  • Ukraine Part 2 - Chernobyl: Into the Heart of Apocalypse NOTE TO READERS: This is Part 2 of my travel blog on Ukraine. Please read Part 1 first, beginning below this entry. The following entry contains graphic descriptions which may be disturbing to some readers. Please Posted by sfoshee in Scott's Eastern Europe 2009! | Jun 23, 2009
  • Ukraine Part 1 - Lviv and Kiev This is Kane, from Bateman's Bay Australia. I met him in the breakfast room at the hostel in Krakow and he was a really interesting guy. Bateman's Bay is on the south coast of Australia Posted by sfoshee in Scott's Eastern Europe 2009! | Jun 21, 2009
  • Welcome to Donetsk! Look up Donetsk in the guidebooks and you'll cross it off your list of places to visit. It's known as the coal and steel center of Ukraine. But don't do it. I'm just finishing up my first month of teaching Posted by baarhodtoo in Teaching My Way Around the World | Jun 19, 2009
  • Under then over Since I have no idea when I last updated, and I'm now sitting in Kiev, waiting for my flight to New York-I'll just account for the last 24 hours or so. Yesterday we had a day off (kind of). We went Posted by LeaStoneB in Ukraine JHI | May 17, 2009
  • Chabadniks at night We were at one of the two only functioning synagogues in Odessa last night. Despite having a Jewish population of nearly 40% of the population of the city in the past and approximately 70 synagogues...there we were! Needless to say we Posted by LeaStoneB in Ukraine JHI | May 16, 2009
  • Yes we have no bananas Out and about in Odessa yesterday, after numerous consultations-the team split and we tirelessly worked separately hoping to see as many patients as possible at the children's rehabilitation center. They had a lot of wonderful people working there, ded Posted by LeaStoneB in Ukraine JHI | May 16, 2009
  • Today-Day Two Sooo tired, we met for breakfast and loaded up on coffee. We quickly made our way to the Chabad House, a religious school for Jewish Children to attend. Setting up rather quickly in a gorgeous computer overlooking a flower filled playground, parents Posted by LeaStoneB in Ukraine JHI | May 13, 2009
  • Day One-I left out lunch Our van broke down, so we took three separate cars to the "Warm House" where a group of very warm, Jewish elderly folks had put together a luncheon with music that they both played and sang. As the accordian blared Posted by LeaStoneB in Ukraine JHI | May 13, 2009
  • Day One What did we see??? Wow! Children in the Reznick Center, Dr. Weisleder and I saw four complicated cases-endocrine-ology, respiratory, cranial and failure to thrive among other inquisitions and readouts. We also did consultations at Bayteainu-a p Posted by LeaStoneB in Ukraine JHI | May 13, 2009
  • Day One I woke and went to breakfast in the hotel and met my team. Naomi (Occupational Therapy), Hemda (Physical therapy) and Pedro (pediatrician). We ate and were greeted by the Irina, Valerie and Nicolay with the van in the morning. 9am JDC Posted by LeaStoneB in Ukraine JHI | May 13, 2009
  • 20-some odd hours to Odessa After battling traffic on the LIE, I made it to my flight (almost 9 hours from JFK to KIEV). I sat next to Gregory, a nice Ukrainian man that lives in Hicksville, Long Island-go figure. He was nice enough to Posted by LeaStoneB in Ukraine JHI | May 13, 2009
  • JHI Mission Statement At each site we strive to meet community needs by: * Coordinating teams of JHI volunteer medical professionals from the United States and Israel * Providing advanced training, lectures, consultations, home visits and public Posted by LeaStoneB in Ukraine JHI | May 7, 2009
  • Heading from Here to There I'm getting ready, I am just in awe of how much generosity there is for this trip. Thank you so much to those parents and professionals that have donated time, money and gifts for my trip. Now I just need Posted by LeaStoneB in Ukraine JHI | May 7, 2009
  • Day 52 Today we managed to prise ourselves from our beds in time for a 09:45 breakfast, this meant we didn't get as many strange looks from the staff, which was good! As we had made up some time on the road by Posted by EdAndJames in Coastin' Around | Mar 25, 2009
  • Day 51 We made it to breakfast with one minute to spare and the staff were very understanding! Shortly after that we met up with Ksenia again and took her for a ride on the bikes to a Yamaha garage. We had Posted by EdAndJames in Coastin' Around | Mar 24, 2009
  • Day 50 Bleak would be a good word to sum up today. Cold, wet, exhausting and ultimately rewarding would also work. But starting at the beginning we had a good breakfast (our hotel is right out of The Shining) and went out Posted by EdAndJames in Coastin' Around | Mar 24, 2009
  • Day 49 We were up and ready to go by 10.30 as we had umpteem miles to cover and a couple of borders (it turned out to be 3 in the end, twice through Moldova!) Our hosts at the apartment in Galati Posted by EdAndJames in Coastin' Around | Mar 24, 2009
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