The rest of the team arrived safe yesterday. There was a mix up with where they were going to go (at least in my head there was) after leaving the airport and I wound up walking to the church office when they were supposed to show up at my apartment. It's OK though. Exercise. My mom and Austin are staying with me and Rich and Joan are staying at Pastor Max's house. 

     This morning, we all met up at Zhytomyrska Metro station and took the subway into the city. Since the team was still a little jet-lagged, we didn't do anything too strenuous. Just walked a few miles around downtown Kiev. We visited two museums on the West bank of the city. In the morning it was the National Museum of Chornobyl. It's half-memorial, half-educational site showing the progression of the disaster through to evacuation. Highly recommended if you ever visit here. After lunch we stopped at former prison/fort, now hospital complex, that overlooks the city and the National Sports Complex.

     Once we were thoroughly worn out from walking and seeing the city, we got on the subway and then a маршру́тка (marshrutka, AKA taxi-bus) and all headed over to Max's house. He lives about 20 minutes outside the city by bus. Driving is a little faster because of how crazy the drivers are. At Max's, dinner and most of the Ukrainian team were waiting. We all shared a great meal. Afterward, we went over the schedule for camp and some of the details. It looks like the old mantra (be flexible) will come into play daily. Fortunately, most of us are already limbered up and ready to go. There are still a few details to work out (pray for those, please) and then we'll see where things are when we arrive around 8:30AM on Monday.

     Camp for us actually starts Sunday evening. We'll be meeting the students at the church office at 8PM. We need to determine their English proficiency before leaving so we can divide them up into beginner, intermediate, and advanced. That will give us the classes for English at camp. We'll be on the bus by 10:00PM. It's a long drive so hopefully we can get some sleep on the way or Monday will be a long day. 

Attached are two pictures from today. The first is the view from the prison/fort/hospital. The second...well, just figure out what's missing.