tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84986714934320243682024-03-06T12:03:34.904-08:00BACK IN THE USSRPeace Corps Ukraine 2011-2013Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-11727367335534769052013-05-13T12:03:00.001-07:002013-05-13T12:03:37.587-07:00Description of Peace Corps Service <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At the end of all Peace Corps Volunteers service we're required to submit a "DOS" which basically summaries everything we've done over the past two years for both PC record and for future job prospects. It's weird that's it's all down on paper - I hope it looks impressive...</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 8.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Matthew
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Ukraine </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">|
</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">March
2011 – June 2013<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">After a competitive application process
emphasizing professional skills, motivation, adaptability, cross-cultural
understanding and medical fitness, Peace Corps invited Mr. Matthew Brady to
serve as a Youth Development Volunteer in Ukraine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Pre-service
training<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">On March 23, 2011, Mr. Brady joined the 41<sup>st</sup>
group of Peace Corps Volunteers to serve in Ukraine. He entered an intensive 11-week
community-based training program. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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program included –<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">200
hours of Ukrainian language instruction and field-trips<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hours of technical training on youth policy and youth development in Ukraine,
including eight weeks of classroom observation, teaching and summer youth camp
practice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hours of area studies (history, economics and cultural norms)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hours of personal health and safety training<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">8
hours of HIV/AIDS education (how to incorporate within the English classroom)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">To reinforce language and cross-cultural learning,
Mr. Brady lived with a Ukrainian family in the town of Kozelets, Chernihiv
Region throughout training. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">In preparation for his Peace Corps service, while
a trainee, Mr. Brady worked at Kozelets School I-III. While at Kozelets School I-III, Mr. Brady
taught English and Healthy Lifestyle classes as well as planned a summer camp,
emphasizing on sports, teamwork, nutrition, and exercise. In collaboration with
four other trainees, Mr. Brady organized and held a fundraising event to
provide trainings on volunteerism and community activism to secondary school
students in Kozelets School I-III while also providing new musical instruments
and new school resources to the local school for disabled children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">U.S. Ambassador John F. Tefft. swore in Mr. Brady
as a Peace Corps Volunteer on June 16, 2011 in Kyiv, Ukraine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Mr. Brady was assigned to Harkushyntsi, Poltava
region, a village community of around 1,200 Ukrainian and Russian speakers in central
Ukraine. He worked as a youth development volunteer at Harkushyntsi Specialized
School I-III, which served a student body of 120 and 28 faculty members.
Harkushyntsi Specialized School I-III is located in the Myrhorod district, and
the school’s U.S. equivalent in elementary, middle, and high school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Mr. Brady worked under the supervising authority
of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine as represented by his job
supervisors, school Principal Ivan Vitenko and English teacher Yulia Karpenko.
The school year began each year on September 1<sup> </sup>and ended on the last
Friday of May. There were approximately 140 school days in each school year and
Mr. Brady worked on approximately 120 of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Harkushyntsi
Specialized School I-III Projects & Seminars –<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr.
Brady taught between 15 – 17 hours of formal lessons each semester in English,
Biology/Healthy Lifestyles, and Physical Education as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">2011-2012 School Year<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">1<sup>st</sup>
grade 1 hour/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">2<sup>nd</sup>
grade 1 hour/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">4<sup>th</sup>
grade 1 hour /week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">5<sup>th</sup>
grade 5 hours/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">7<sup>th</sup>
grade 3 hours/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">8<sup>th</sup>
grade 2 hours/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">9<sup>th</sup>
grade 1 hour/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">11<sup>th</sup>
grade 1
hour/week</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">1<sup>st</sup>
grade 1 hour/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grade 1 hour/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grade 1 hour /week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grade 2 hours/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grade 3 hours/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">7<sup>th</sup>
grade 3 hours/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">8<sup>th</sup>
grade 1 hours/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grade 2 hour/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">10<sup>th</sup>
grade 2
hours/week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">11<sup>th</sup>
grade 1
hour/week</span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Volunteerism/Values
in America & Peace Corps seminar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Myrhorod
district teachers conference (August 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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district teachers of ethics (December 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Olympiad
training (September 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Olympiad
is a yearly national competition in a variety of school subject matters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr.
Brady held specialized trainings for higher level English speaking students who
participated in this competition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Trainings
focused on English reading/pronunciation, conversational speaking, and writing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">FLEX
training (October 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">FLEX
is a study abroad program for 8<sup>th </sup>– 10<sup>th</sup> grade Ukrainians
to live in the United States for one full school year<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr.
Brady planned and held practice sessions for interested students that led up
until the testing held in the regional center, Poltava<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pen
Pal Letter/Cultural Exchange (2012-2013)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Organized
correspondences between American and Ukrainian students from 1<sup>st</sup> – 5<sup>th</sup> grade <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Darien
Book Aid (February 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Filed
for and received free English literature at varying reading levels <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">International
Volunteerism Day (5 December 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Designed
and conducted a one day volunteerism seminar, in Ukrainian language, discussing
why people volunteer, what they do, and the differences between volunteerism in
America and Ukraine to both school faculty and students <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">English
Day Camps – the following were the topics covered in one day camps conducted
with the assistance of fellow Peace Corps volunteers <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Leadership/project
design and management (28 January 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Health/nutrition/exercise
(24 February 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ecology/environmental
protection (26 April 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rights (8 May 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Clubs –<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Brady coordinated and organized clubs for varying age demographics as follows: <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">2011-2012 School
Year<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">5<sup>th</sup> – 11<sup>th</sup> grade 2 hour/week Topic
based vocabulary practice, English games<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">5<sup>th</sup> – 7<sup>th</sup>
grade 2 hour/week English games, sentence construction, art<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">8<sup>th</sup> – 11<sup>th</sup>
grade 2 hour /week Music translation, English TV, Conversation
practice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">2012-2013 School Year<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">5<sup>th</sup> – 11<sup>th</sup> grade 3 hour/week Country
Study, Newspaper, and English Movie/Music<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">8<sup>th</sup> – 11<sup>th</sup>
grade 3 hour /week Running and Sports</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Secondary
Organization Projects & Seminars – <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Naturalist
Station (2011-2013) – with the help of this government funded
ecological/healthy lifestyle organization, Mr. Brady was able to expand his
student audience by visiting village communities throughout Myrhorod district
to teach, in Ukrainian language, a variety of topics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Conducted
5 Smoking/Alcohol seminars<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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3 Health/Nutrition seminars<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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10 American youth/culture seminars<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Regional
Naturalist Station training on HIV/AIDS and American youth organizations<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Harkushyntsi
Kindergarten (2011-2013)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">TEFL
– 2 hours/week to 8 to 12 kindergartners<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Collaborated
on two media presentations showcasing the activities and lessons provided at
the Harkushyntsi Kindergarten<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Myrhorod
Kindergarten (2011)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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kindergartners</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">In-Service
Training –<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Volunteerism
in Ukraine (16-19 August 2011)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Attended
with job supervisor Yulia Karpenko<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Trainings
on project design and management <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Peace
Corps Language Refresher (17-20 January 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">PEPFAR
(6-10 February 2012) (4-8 February 2013)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">In
2012, Mr. Brady attended as a participant with job supervisor Yulia Karpenko<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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2013, Mr. Brady was invited to be the HIV/AIDS English Trainer to fellow PCVs for
the conference<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">PEPFAR
grant ($502) (December 2011 – December 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in conjunction with the Naturalist Station from Myrhorod district <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Organized
HIV Training of Trainers of 20 administrative representatives and health
teachers from varying schools in Myrhorod district<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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HIV trainings, in Ukrainian language, on HIV biology, transmission, and stigma
and discrimination for a total of 295 8<sup>th</sup> <b>–</b> 11<sup>th</sup> grade students from 10 village schools throughout
Myrhorod district<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
grant funded and student made art instillation focusing on what participating
schools had learned about HIV/AIDS was put up on display in Myrhorod for World
AIDS Day (1 December 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Media
and English Resource Center ($1928.11) (September 2012 – March 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">In
corporation with Harkushyntsi Specialized School I-III, Mr. Brady received a Peace
Corps partnership grant which went to upgrading English resources along with
purchasing new media technology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">64
new English textbooks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Installation
of Wi-Fi, video projector, projecting screen, and printer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr.
Brady conducted teacher trainings on how to utilize the new technology/resources
into their lessons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lifestyles Working Group Mini-grant ($50) (14 October 2012)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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from 2<sup>nd</sup> <b>–</b> 10<sup>th</sup>
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participated in a family based competition to promote healthy fitness,
exercise, as well as the importance of communication<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Specialized School I-III<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LEAD (20-25 August 2011) (19-24 August 2012)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Youth Leadership Conference Mini-Camp (7-9 October 2011)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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young adult Ukrainian counselors in teaching Ukrainian youth about leadership,
fundraising, and project design and management<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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leader, photographer, and head teacher of HIV biology and transmission<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Advisory Group – Mr. Brady was the youth development representative for Peace
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Throughout his service, Mr. Brady actively worked
to improve his language proficiency through integrating into his hosting
families/community as well as working with a tutor in Ukrainian and Russian
languages throughout his service. Under the parameters of Peace Corps’ language
examinations, Mr. Brady ended his service with an Advanced Medium score in
Ukrainian language.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Following Ukraine's Declaration of Independence in
1991 and its decision to become an independent democratic country, a bilateral
agreement was signed by US and Ukrainian Presidents to establish a U.S. Peace
Corps Program in Ukraine in 1992. Since then, US Peace Corps Volunteers have
been serving in Ukraine in the areas of business development, education,
environmental protection, youth development, and community development. Mr.
Matthew Brady’s work as a Youth Development Volunteer, as well as his role as a
representative of the people, culture, values and traditions of the United
States of America, was part of a nation-wide development effort in Ukraine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Pursuant to § 5(f) of the Peace Corps Act, 22 USC
2504(f), as amended, any former Volunteer employed by the United States
Government following his Peace Corps Volunteer Service is entitled to have any
period of satisfactory Peace Corps service credited for purposes of retirement,
seniority, reduction in force, leave, and other privileges based on length of
Government service. That service shall
not be credited toward completion of the probationary or trial period of any
service requirement for career appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">This is to certify in accordance with Executive
Order 11103 of April 10, 1963, that Mr. Matthew Brady served successfully as a
Peace Corps Volunteer. His service ended
on June 5, 2013. He is therefore eligible to be appointed as a
career-conditional employee in the competitive civil service on a
non-competitive basis. This benefit
under the Executive Order extends for a period of one year after termination of
Volunteer service, except that the employing agency may extend the period for
up to three years for a former Volunteer who enters military service, pursues
studies at a recognized institution of higher learning, or engages in other
activities that, in the view of the appointing agency, warrant extension of the
period.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-66788225319978460022012-11-11T04:57:00.001-08:002012-11-11T04:57:19.236-08:00hello... is anyone still listening? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
so i'm finally trying to do a update on life some 7 months later after my most recent relevant post. i figured a video might be more time conscious than a overly long essay filled with grammatical and spelling inaccuracies. So anyways, here is Part I.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know a burning question in all y'alls minds right now is, "what to get Mr. Matt for his birthday?", well I have a potential answer that'll make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside to boot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm currently fundraising for a grant project I've started for my community. In a nutshell, it's to ideally create a new English textbook and resource center as well as updated needed technology in my small school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Literally any bit you can donate will help towards realizing this project. Not to mention donations can be tax-deductable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have any further qusetions, feel free to let me know via email and I'll try to get back to you in a timely fashion. Feel free to share this with friends or family that you feel might be interested in also supporting my community. </span></div>
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Just a quick update seeing how I'm failing at the whole blog posting this recently.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">But... there is a camp is in the works for students (including my own) from all over my oblast, Poltava that will take place this summer. It hopes to </span><span style="text-align: left;">facilitate</span><span style="text-align: left;"> leadership and help develop project design and implementation skills for future leaders of Ukraine (aka my students and others in da best oblast).</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Being just two hours away from Budapest, why the hell not pop in. We spent two and a half days there and I feel we could have done a lot more. </span></div>
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Vienna is cool/hip/modern with interpreted old things. Example, every other street was a Canon or Nikon store and literally there would be a Rolex store and then an old Catholic church. </blockquote>
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But I guess if you count the museums, palaces, theme parks, and being served iPads for menus, I think we coved a lot of ground. It was a tad more expensive than it's Hungarian brethren but the Euro was a currency I was much more confortable converting and managing over the Hungarian forint (my meal was 2500HUF, wha?). </div>
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The city is remarkably clean and organized, so if you know anything about me, that makes me smile. Their biking system was ridiculous, with separate roads, lights, and sounds. Portion sizes were good and we managed not to get lost.</div>
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Our only regret was meeting an American on the train who suggested we visit the Secession Museum - that man owes me 8 Euro. You know I'm one for modern art but when it's just like sticks stuck in the white floor or large white boxes that flicker, I'm sorry, I don't get it.</div>
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"we better hustle to the vokzol (2 hours early), we wouldn't want to be late"<br />
"you're going to wan to shoot yourself in the face" in Чоп<br />
"do you have a map with you?" - immigration officer<br />
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some "woo girl" decided to scream right by the mic</div>
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yes... ukraine does a "count up", and yes, we were just as befuddled.<br />
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i guess i shouldn't have assumed that everyone partakes in a count down but come on, who would have ever though, a count up? in retrospect, it does actually make more sense, with seconds adding up to the new year. oh ukraine, you always surprise me.<br />
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kiev had their electric ish in order because it was a led central.<br />
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but honestly, in the words of the famous barney stinson new years in kiev was "legen...dary".<br />
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by the end of the evening, I ended up finding a few things...<br />
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the day after was also a site to see. i'm not quite sure if kids here actually believe in santa when you can find 20 of them roaming around khreschatik<br />
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<b>best new years hands down</b></div>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.com0Kiev, Kyiv city, Ukraine, 0200050.4501 30.523450.288332499999996 30.207542999999998 50.6118675 30.839257tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-38038413676451365732011-12-30T10:58:00.000-08:002012-02-04T11:01:12.319-08:00holla back дід мороз<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ukraine and russia's bedazzled santa clause (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz">дід мороз</a> - father frost) with his granddaughter (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snegurochka">снігуронька</a> - snow maiden) who takes style tips from queen amidala are the stars of the new years and christmas holiday season here in ukraine.<br />
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<li>it finally started snowing</li>
<li>ukrainian christmas falls on the seventh of january</li>
<li>christmas trees (or new years trees) go up around the twenty eighth of december</li>
<li>stores in town have lights and santa paraphernalia</li>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">however, that doesn't mean I can't bring / force some "early" holiday cheer to the students in my school. a lot of our american traditions for christmas and new years are combined in ukraine, which makes distinguishing between the holidays much more difficult for myself during the holiday season. </span><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.com0Myrhorod, Poltavs'ka oblast, Ukraine, 3760049.971384 33.6100749.9305335 33.531106 50.0122345 33.689034tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-1325828024095491152011-12-01T13:18:00.000-08:002011-12-28T13:24:56.891-08:00Dec 1: World AIDS Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What some of you may not know about the country where I currently serve, but Ukraine has the fastest growing HIV rate and the largest population of reported HIV infected individuals in all of Europe. Sadly it's a very hushed/controversial subject (understandably) where even in schools the main aspects regarding HIV transmission is just overlooked and untaught. Furthermore, a large proportion of Ukraine's older generation is under the pretense that this issue isn't one of Ukraine's, but of that of other third world countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While working in Kozelets, the lesson I taught on HIV/AIDS had to be "edited" due to sensitivity issues. I was glad to hear that in my new school had an open policy and a faculty mentality that all the information should be available for it's students to hear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The HIV/AIDS working group provided lots of material and ideas to jump start my lessons and trainings I have sense held on the topic. Using my school as a gauge, I have sense held Healthy Lifestyle training sessions on HIV/AIDS, stigma/discrimination, smoking, and alcoholism at what I think is up to six different schools in neighboring villages! While obviously I don't teach in perfect Ukrainian and I'm thankful for my Ukrainian partner to back me up, it's been a great way to meet and reach an audience of students outside my own school. Not to mention utilize some of my micro bio knowledge!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did a showing of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375663/"><i>A Closer Walk</i></a> which features Ukraine as one of the three countries it focuses on in regards to the AIDS crisis. If interested, I highly recommend you to watch it - my students found it very personal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't think anyone should ever be too "old" or "cool" to make a turkey hand - so forcing my 8th through 11th formers was all but sickeningly justified. Though no frets, my younger kids also got in on the action.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While yes, my work did include holding turkey day presentations (which were awesome might I add), I got to also celebrate it in true Amurican fashion... with Western <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_mystery_game">Murder Mysteries</a>, Saunas, and a total of 3 turkeys of course. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As mentioned previously, festivities at this gathering included a murder mystery (an impromptu play) under the code name : <b><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Fort Griffin Clock Tower Celebratio</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">n at Clyde's Bar and Saloon</span></b>. General introductions were as follows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>You’ve been an outlaw since … ahh but it’s too painful to say (starting this vague story multiple times in the night would be ideal). You’re tough, you don’t have much of a rhyme or reason for acting so, but you are. You like it when bad things happen to people, you make up your own western themed curses minus the real swear words. You used to have a love affair with Candy the can-can dancer. You let your tough exterior guard down to let her in and she ripped your heart out. And it makes you mad! It especially makes you mad when someone disrespects or has something bad to say about her. The outburst or rage is occasionally followed by a sad streak that comes on real strong and may be accompanied with weeping. Any attempt at consoling (or mocking your weepin’) will be me with another streak of mean. You have noticed the occasional eye from that new can can dancer, what’s her name? Picker, Poker, Pepper…..? She is cute but there just isn’t room in your sore heart right now. You absolutely cannot stand Mr. Tinker the Piano Player, and you are not quite sure why.<br />Speaks: a gruff voice which turns to high pitched whining when weeping</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Cliff notes version</b> - Candy/Priest died, I cried, yelled, and got angry (a lot), investigation commenced, culprit was found, I shot her, and we all continued to hate Mr. Tinker. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall, impressively quirky and fun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day was our actual feast. Which involved <b>food prep, some good old "2 hand touch" football (lightly enforced), feasting, lounging, sleeping</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since none of us had every truthfully prepared a turkey, we sought refuge in YouTube. Sadly, not all videos were too helpful - example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very successful Thanksgiving #1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#2 wasn't as easy of a travel though I found a new cheap way to get to Kiev (<b>for only 25 UAH</b> - aka 3 USD)! Stopping in Kiev also meant I got to raid the Peace Corps office for stuff Volunteers who have completed their service left. It's like going into Target, sometimes you score, sometimes you don't. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways, we (Kym was assimilated) made our way to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivne">Rivne</a> via a 4 hour marshrutka from hell. Not in the sense that it was in any particular reason awful, it was just unbearably hot. To the point where I turned to Kym and said, "is it ok for my eyes to be burning?". We left hell and made it to <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;">Dyadkovichi</span> (uncle town?) where Maria, my old clustermate, lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ended up accomplishing much over the extended weekend.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learned Ukrainians are far better volleyball players then most PCVs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Held a seminar on Thanksgiving traditions countrywide</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saunas are always epic - especially for Miss Booker's 24th birthday</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explored Rivne</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reunited with old friends over an Ukr Disco</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cooked some delicious mac and cheese from scratch</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and of course checked another Oblast center off the list</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While it's hard to beat bourbon whip cream, 65 degree weather, Wii, and a home cooked meal as 2010 Thanksgiving had to offer, <b>this one packed enough Amurica</b>.</span><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.com0Mitskevycha St, 10, Rivne, Rivnens'ka oblast, Ukraine, 3300450.6199 26.25161750.579603500000005 26.172653 50.6601965 26.330581tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-73725226710264598802011-11-17T04:42:00.000-08:002011-12-28T05:42:42.164-08:00iMovie's making me famous<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So the word's out in my celo that I know how to make mildly decent looking films, so now the petitions for help are rolling in. The first being at my the local kindergarden. I work there once a week teaching a painting or craft project / simple english lesson. I then proceed to get fed lunch, whether I'm hungry or not (I find for a man, saying no to food shouldn't be in my vocabulary).<br />
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So this video was shown at a later point at some kindergarden county gathering. I later received a jokingly sarcastic comment from a neighboring PCV regarding "what the hell I did". Now he must now make a video for his community kindergarden. I swear sometimes it'd be faster to send a letter by word of mouth then through the Ukrainian mailing system. </div>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.com0Harkushyntsi, Poltavs'ka oblast, Ukraine, 3767049.9309187 33.570028849.9104762 33.5305468 49.9513612 33.6095108tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-55386011336762735652011-11-06T13:07:00.001-08:002012-02-05T12:51:03.659-08:00Herbology Lesson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So coming from the sheltered California "force field", "bubble", "electromagnetic field", we sometimes miss out on where </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stupidly</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">common things actually comes from. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take for instance this pictures - one may or may not question what the Dr. Seuss looking topiary is. Well, I "what the'd" the tree with balls. Since mid-fall to early winter, you couldn't not see these guys sprouting up everywhere. As a biologist, I assumed it was just some strange tree's economical technique of seed dispersal / genetic transmission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it comes to find out... drum roll please... it's <b>mistletoe</b>. Which turns out is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe#Life_cycle">parasitic plant</a> that roots itself into a variety of tree species while it matures and steals water and nutrient resources. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ironically with this stuff everywhere, there is no tradition here of couples kissing under mistletoe. Though I'm sure Ukrainians would love the concept, seeing how it could potentially lead to marriage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favorite response when I began to ask PCV's if they knew where mistletoe came from was from a fellow Poltavian PCV Alvi, where she responded with "Walgreens". </span></div>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-21767752970728757232011-11-04T12:19:00.000-07:002011-12-28T04:31:16.086-08:00Saving princesses and growing staches...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Before I begin I'd like to say this rooster outside my window is seriously killin' my writing buzz. So Halloween is generally not celebrated in Ukraine, which I believe is rooted in Ukraine's strong connection with Catholicism. However in bigger cities you can find Halloween creeping in different aspects: with posters for clubs and discos and decorations in chain stores. </div>
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Being a personal fan of horror movies and eating candy, I guess you could say I too enjoy Halloween. Tragically however, the 31st usually falls during Ukrainian school system's autumn break. With a desire to scare some students, my Halloween ended up being four fold including two costumes.</div>
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<li>the annual volunteer Halloween celebration in Kharkiv</li>
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<li>upside, I ate all the leftover candy</li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting off at her site, the Jamaican sounding town of Kitsman, I managed to take only 1 photo (which MK was not too pleased about) however I feel it definitely encompasses all that is Kitsman. </span></div>
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<li>"correct" her apartment</li>
<li>meet her cool sitemate who also is fond of making fun of midwestern accents</li>
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Like any good excursion, I had to check another Oblast center off the list. With my guilde book not prompting any real excitement for what could be found in Chernivtsi, and I quote, "with Chernivtsi such a jumble of sights, and perhaps only the university a crucial one...", MK showed me around. Chernivtsi isn't any major city in Ukraine but it was very pleasant. I always seem to time weather in the West because it was an awesome day. My one word description of the city would be pastely, and it has a crazy university. Examples can be found below:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe it’s because I finally finished the last Harry Potter novel a few weeks ago but I find myself </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">trying to find references to Mr. Potter in all aspects of my life</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, hence the name of this post.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So come Tuesday and Wednesday I found myself not in school but rather on the <b>school marshrutka packed with students</b> to a neighboring village, unaware and anxious for what the future had in store. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And when I say packed, I don’t think Americans can comprehend the Ukrainian version of packed. Not like every seat was filled, but like every seat was double filled with people also standing (safety always comes first, right)? But I really think this sort of forced interactions (both social and physical) between students of young and old really creates a more cohesive student body where they look out and care for one another. It’s been really interesting to be part of such a small school coming from an educational system where there was 3000 people in my high school. </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arriving revealed hundreds of kids and an amass of other school buses at a school. I procured later that 11 different schools within the rayon arrived to partake in an annual competition between schools (hence the triwizard reference). </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.com0Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltavs'ka oblast, Ukraine, 3764550.023999 33.94108849.983193 33.862124 50.064805000000007 34.020052tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-83829269458524508052011-10-10T10:28:00.000-07:002011-10-26T11:03:14.890-07:00PYLC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One may presume this acronym to be similar to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k">YMCA</a> however you'd sadly be mistaken. The PYLC or the Poltava Youth Leadership Convention is a four day leadership summer training that goes on in Poltava (the oblast center) where students are bused in from all over the oblast to improve leadership and project design and management skills / hopefully чуть-чуть fun. While I didn't attend the training over the summer, a refresher weekend training was held which I was able to participate.<br /><br />While this camp was mainly designed by PCVs, what separates it from other camps I've been involved in was that the activities were held in Ukrainian (or Russian). While I would like to say my Ukrainian is that supurb that I could teach a solid lesson on budgeting, sadly I cannot. Fortunately staffing the event were also Ukrainian trainers, who were awesome. In my village I seldom get to engage with Ukrainian twenty somethings so it was a welcomed change.<br />
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<li>a watermelon eating competition was held to show students possible fundraising options. I happened to have eaten a massive lunch before hand, hence I lost</li>
<li>embarrassment will be left unclarified</li>
<li>painting refers to posters creation </li>
<li>making monies refers to soliciting nationals to partake in a photo shoot to raise money for a kindergarden</li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">new monies put into my account (all ~ $300.00!)</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so basically I needed time to catch up on my life and sleep. And after taking a gander at what my gCal says my life will be like for October - not to mention it's supposed to start to snow this month, it's been awesome to have this weekend free.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll proudly admit I've basically been in my pj's for 92% of the weekend - only getting "put together" for my outing to town for the bazaar, supermarket, and ATM. I finished the book I've been reading (now in dire need of a new one) and caught up on TV shows, friends, news, emails, music (like I said, all things revolving around life). </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of friends, check out this sexy Skype session with MP... granted it was 3AM in Santa Cruz. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">need...to...buy...a...warm...jacket</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.com0T1715, Poltavs'ka oblast, Ukraine49.931002635613083 33.56889724731445349.920781635613082 33.54915624731445 49.941223635613085 33.588638247314456tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-78563619734592331982011-09-29T10:56:00.000-07:002011-09-29T10:59:52.308-07:00Birthdays with Mr. Coco<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So as most of you know, my birthday has come and gone and Ukrainians spared no expense in "expressing their wishes of wealth, happiness, and that all my plans find their way to success". I tried to make it clear that I'm not one to enjoy celebrating my own birthday... however I guess either they didn't understand my Ukranglish / didn't listen.</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">flowers - enough to where I presume a small garden was decimated (a moment of silence please)</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few highlights of the day included </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a massive torso sized cake that the faculty refused to eat, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a jar of Nutella gifted by t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he 5th form, and Robin Hood.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An interesting thing about Ukraine is that each city has it's own "day", for instance Myrhorod Day (which I think pertains to the day the Nazis left said town/city). Anyways, Myrhorod day ended up being celebrated my birthday weekend. So, once my school day ended, I made my way to Myrhorod where I spent the rest of the day with my sitemate Robin. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 8:45 morning train was actually on time and wasn't late arriving to Kyiv - in essence my true birthday present from Ukraine. I was able to grab my Mickey D's and shawarma fix and hung out with friends for the rest of the weekend. This weekend may or may not have included ending up in a 80's grunge hangout (denim jackets included) where presumable self titled DJ Mr. Coco spoke some broken English words of wisdom...</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"my name is Mr. Coco"</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"make some loud"</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"it makes me feel like oh my god"</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"why is it so dark in heaven?"</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"ladies get your booties moving"</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All and all, a successful birthday number 1. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also may have taught hipster Ukrainians how to electric slide - great success)</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Disclaimer - this is the forth blog post of "catch up day". I most likely will not be proof-reading it for spelling or grammatical errors. </span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My last week in Aug was spent making my way between the two huge industrial cities of Kryvyi Rih - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Кривий Ріг</span> and Dnipropetrovs'k - Дніпропетровськ in the Dnipropetrovs'ka Oblast. The 8.5 hour Myrhorod - Kryvyi Rih bus ride (from hell) was not the ideal way to get pumped up for camp but thankfully I had a fellow Poltavian Megan and curb side / swiss army knifed cheese, tomato, bell pepper, cucumber sandwiches to ease the awfulness. Literally a fellow passenger almost died on the bus. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><small><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was in </span></small>Kryvyi Rih for yet another Summer camp - Camp LEAD; which was a English immersion leadership camp for 16-21 year old students that myself and maybe 15 other PCV's were a part of. We all were housed in this old soviet hotel that made <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/">The Shinning</a> + <a href="http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=hostel">Hostel</a> seem like a mashup potentially possibility - creepy hallways, abandoned basements, flickering lights, eerily quiet and deserted hallways at night. However I will say that's what made it really fun to explore. </span><br />
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It was actually really sad when the week ended, good thing these kids took no time in friending my on Vkontakte (the Russian equivalent of Facebook). </div>
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The weekend in Dnipro was pretty relaxing as well - seeing how we stayed at a fellow 41er Kathryn's sweet pad. Got to see some sites, cook some good food, and just chill before school starts.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.com0Dnipropetrovs'k, Dnipropetrovs'ka oblast, Ukraine48.464717 35.04618348.2962555 34.730326 48.6331785 35.36204tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-12875020209146794592011-08-23T04:16:00.000-07:002011-09-04T04:20:02.201-07:00Has it really been 5 months?!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So my counterpart asked me to put together a short video of my time in Ukraine to be shown at this educational department rayon conference - I then realized it's been five freaking months?! I dunno, it seems like time has flown by.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good news amigos who may visit me next year in August - another must see event right next to where I live! From Aug 16-21 there is one of the largest (it's massive) and most well known festival that takes place in Ukraine and is conveniently only about 30 minutes away form where I live. Let's just say I started getting couch surfing requests from Ukrainians.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways, it's ridiculous. I<b>t's like a music festival / carnival / dance party / Wal-mart / bazaar.</b> You can do / buy just about anything there. For expamle, you can...</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">buy cars, winter coats, massage chairs</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ride rollar coasters</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">listen to live traditional Ukrainian music</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">buy traditional garb</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eat / drink at much shawarma, shasleek, kvas, pivo, etc...</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022909655735073990noreply@blogger.com0Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltavs'ka oblast, Ukraine50.023999 33.94108849.983193 33.862124 50.064805000000007 34.020052tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498671493432024368.post-91333986958614320852011-08-16T03:36:00.000-07:002011-09-04T09:29:22.968-07:00Weekend back in Koz town<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a weekend free and need to be in Kyiv on Tuesday for a week long convention, I took up the opportunity to visit my PST community / family / pets / cluster mates in good old Koz town.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While it took a little longer then expected to get from Myrhorod to Kyiv (typical Ukraine), a good slice or I guess burger & fries of American fast food made everything ok. Though I can't believe they upped the Express Kyiv-Kozelets marshrutka <b>by 2 UAH</b>! Of course when I finally got home to Kozelets there was a massive amount of food ready to go - I should have known not to have eaten, however I ate again (and probably enough for two people). It was fun to be able to communicate and understand more - the dictionary was not actually at the table. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was fun to hang with the Koz group and host brothers, sisters, friends, etc... I managed to make my rounds to both Mary-Kathryn's and Kym's host families and of course got some good food out of it before they had to leave on Sunday. </span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if you come to visit me from the states - we're going here (no choice)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if my PC salary / workload could afford both the 250 UAH and the 14 hour travel time - I'd be there on the reg</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">put on your walking shoes - because why bus when there is so much to see around every corner (and I know a quaint 6km walking tour)</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So some few weeks back and through the magic of social networking sites, I mentioned the idea of traveling somewhere / anywhere because I had a light work week before the craziness of August would commence. The idea of L'viv was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thrown out there. At frist it was retracted by yours truly because it was a hop, skip, and a half country away. I'll admit L'viv was one of the main cities I was dying to visit, however I was a tad scared of traveling by train solo for such a long distance. However after a little fuss I gave in and purchased the basically non-refundable tickets (they lose like half their value if you return them) and thus locked me into that which became Львів 2011.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So one may ask what an overnight train ride is like in "economy" third class? It's much like the black friday videos of people trying to get into WalMart - but it's totally the way to go. There are no little rooms like the Hogwarts Express however the stewart does come around with a cart of goodies you can purchase (sadly, no chocolate frogs). It's like this, four bunks to a given space, with two other side berths facing perpendicular to the other four bunks (I'm sure there must be a more logical way to describe this). I guess the sardine aspect is a bit of an over exaggeration but it's definitely a forced meet and greet situation - and their is apparently<b> Ukr train etiquette</b>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I arrived around 2:30PM the next day and met up with Kym waiting at the train station and we made our way / out of our way (undesired directional detour) to our castle / hostel we were staying in. In total eight group 41 PCV's from all over descended on L'viv. </span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px;">view from the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=6262809142890236113">Citadel-Inn</a></span></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">taking way to many pictures</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">getting free apples from the bazaar women</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">losing at chess with a local </span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">moon-walking on the Taras Shevchenko statue</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">never ending walking tour (due to frequent cafe, bazaar, beer, girl clothes / jewelry breaks)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">meeting creepy Russians</span></li>
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