Party… Ukrainian style

This weekend was the Christmas party of our colleagues in Lviv. Because I happened to be there for my current project, this was a nice opportunity to join, have a nice not-work-related time with my colleagues and see something more of the Ukrainian country. Ukrainian parties are like this: hire a bus, pack it full [...]

Language problems

(I’m in Kiev, Ukraine to do a project kick-off.)
My Ukrainian and Russian is not very good… to be more precise I can’t talk both at all. So how to get to a supermarket and buy some water, breakfast, cola and juice? Well… in a Kiev sub-urb asking doesn’t help much because people here talked as much [...]