Dear Friends and Family of Matthew T. Brady,
My name is Kym Starno and I'm Matt's favorite cluster-mate! I'd like to share with you my perspective on Matt's new life in Ukraine. When I first met Matt, I kept confusing him with another person Peace Corps Volunteer who looks just like him, however he has quickly become one of my favorite people in Ukraine. I wanted to let you all know that even though he's the only man in a cluster filled with very loud, unbelievably crazy women, he helps maintain our sanity and he has a great sense of humor.
Our days are long and we have a very short period of time to study, integrate into the community and plan lessons, but Matt seems to handle the everyday stresses with ease. I've already taught 1 lesson with him and he's a fantastic teacher. The students love him and I know for a fact that he loves them as well. In language classes he excels and he's great to work with. However, his faults are the following: he tries to make laugh when I'm drinking, he never walks me home with I'm in grave danger, and he teases me on my perfect Ukrainian speech.
When Matt isn't making fun of everyone in our cluster, he's jumping off random objects all over Ukraine, complaining that he doesn't have any internet and uses me to get my wireless internet at my sweet host mother's house, speaking with Kozelets community members and telling secrets he shouldn't be telling!
Anyways, I hope I'll be able to write to you all again very soon! Unfortunately, I had a much longer post, but I'm unprepared at the moment. Matt at this current time is telling me to rush through my post and is making fun of me because I've been on his computer for a pretty long time and I've only written this much. Just for your information, Matt is doing incredibly well and I'm most likely certain that I would have never been able to do Peace Corps at his age. I know you all must be so worried and concerned, but have no worries because you should all be proud of your son/friend/cousin/nephew/grandson. He has 4 women looking after him in case he needs to be hit over the head.
I wish everyone well and Matt will call you soon : )
Kym
My name is Kym Starno and I'm Matt's favorite cluster-mate! I'd like to share with you my perspective on Matt's new life in Ukraine. When I first met Matt, I kept confusing him with another person Peace Corps Volunteer who looks just like him, however he has quickly become one of my favorite people in Ukraine. I wanted to let you all know that even though he's the only man in a cluster filled with very loud, unbelievably crazy women, he helps maintain our sanity and he has a great sense of humor.
Our days are long and we have a very short period of time to study, integrate into the community and plan lessons, but Matt seems to handle the everyday stresses with ease. I've already taught 1 lesson with him and he's a fantastic teacher. The students love him and I know for a fact that he loves them as well. In language classes he excels and he's great to work with. However, his faults are the following: he tries to make laugh when I'm drinking, he never walks me home with I'm in grave danger, and he teases me on my perfect Ukrainian speech.
When Matt isn't making fun of everyone in our cluster, he's jumping off random objects all over Ukraine, complaining that he doesn't have any internet and uses me to get my wireless internet at my sweet host mother's house, speaking with Kozelets community members and telling secrets he shouldn't be telling!
Anyways, I hope I'll be able to write to you all again very soon! Unfortunately, I had a much longer post, but I'm unprepared at the moment. Matt at this current time is telling me to rush through my post and is making fun of me because I've been on his computer for a pretty long time and I've only written this much. Just for your information, Matt is doing incredibly well and I'm most likely certain that I would have never been able to do Peace Corps at his age. I know you all must be so worried and concerned, but have no worries because you should all be proud of your son/friend/cousin/nephew/grandson. He has 4 women looking after him in case he needs to be hit over the head.
I wish everyone well and Matt will call you soon : )
Kym
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