"come see the Boom"

-Happy 4th!-

i've fallen in love with this place nestled in the middle of nowhere, Ukraine. i have always really liked Fourth of July but this has by far been one of the best and i'm not even at home in the states. Breakfast was a rockin conglomerate of cocoa puffs, corn flakes and oversized cheerios. However, the stuff they call 'milk' here (in Ukraine and at camp) is pretty much no good at all.

After morning stuff, Anya and I got to prep with David and Taiya. I also got to spend some time with one of the Radooga staffers, Max. He showed me some of his amazing photography and we just talked about life. His stories of how God has worked in and through him are incredible. English class was great as well. We talked about locations and favorite places.

Right after English class, all of the American and Radooga staff loaded up in Oleg's van. They surprised us and took us to this awesome smokehouse place. We got meat!! for the first time in
over a week.

After evening program and boom, there was mass chaos and everyone just darted outside. I didn't understand anything anyone said at boom (being that it's in ukrainian). But this one younger boy that i've been hanging out with during the free times, Artem, came and found me and basically pulled me outside. He kept telling me that Boom was happening outside. i was highly confused.. ~ but then they surprised us with FIREWORKS!!then as we were walking back to the Hilton to go to bed, more fireworks farther down the road went off. :) we had some prayer time after that as well as a meeting and then some fellowship with the lovely RAS (Radooga All Summer) girls. it was simply wonderful.



David "we're connected psychotenelically or something"

Grant "fireworks are dead birds with neon poo"