{"id":5928,"date":"2017-01-26T20:45:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2017-01-26T20:45:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:45:32","slug":"traveling-around-ukraine-life-international-school-teacher-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-ukraine-life-international-school-teacher-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Around: Ukraine (The life of an international school teacher is good!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around:\u00a0Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nCan you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Listening to the local radio stations in our rental car and laughing at the unbelievably rapid speed of the disclaimers at the end of each advertisement.
\n\u2022\u00a0Getting a Thai massage in the best rated massage place in Kiev, good price too!
\n\u2022\u00a0Eating at a Georgian restaurant (delicious food!) and enjoying watching the Ukrainian tables next to us and how they (very often) toast to each other so that they can drink for alcohol.
\n\u2022\u00a0Staying at probably one of the nicer hotels in the city. The pool\/spa was in the basement of the hotel and was decorated like a tropical tiki-style holiday.<\/p>\n

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\u2022\u00a0Visiting one of the main markets in Kiev and getting crazy high prices from the stall workers, tourist prices, though in the end scoring a huge jar of local honey for only like five Euros.
\n\u2022\u00a0Spending the night eating at a really posh restaurant in Kiev and trying out some very unusual teas and very unique appetizers and entrees; very good quality food in Ukraine!
\n\u2022\u00a0Driving around the city center in our rental car and actually doing it without any issues, so many people (even locals) warned us that the driving in Kiev was dreadful and dangerous. Not the case for us.
\n\u2022 Trying to talk in English with the locals and encountering many confusing conversations and misunderstandings. Though both parties kept a positive and friendly, fun-loving attitude in the process.
\n\u2022 Going from eastern orthodox church to\u00a0eastern orthodox church to\u00a0eastern orthodox church to\u00a0eastern orthodox church to\u00a0eastern orthodox church, well those are the most ornate and beautiful buildings here. Though to be honest the other buildings have pretty amazing architecture and design as well.
\n\u2022\u00a0Scoring some really cool local beauty products for really cheap prices at a very nice organic grocery store in the city.
\n\u2022\u00a0Making an outing to find the statue of the motherland. Man, this HUGE statue is so cool. I think all cities should have something like this. I was in awe of it.
\n\u2022 Watching\u00a0the local Ukrainians take groups pictures of their family and friends and finding it hard to find one where even one person was smiling in the picture.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Loving our tour of the city and then on the last day finding a really cool part of the city where there was a new development of houses, but the houses were style to look like how they looked long ago. Very cool, want to go back and see more of that part of the city.
\n\u2022 Making it a point to visit the local, famous chocolate shop in the center of the city. The locals loved this place!\u00a0Roshen. But I actually also loved another chocolate shop called\u00a0Lviv Handmade Chocolate. Now that stuff was delicious!<\/p>\n

Currently we have 105<\/b>\u00a0international schools listed in Eastern Europe\u00a0on\u00a0International School Community<\/a>. 54<\/strong>\u00a0of them\u00a0have had comments submitted on them. Here are a few of those schools:<\/p>\n

Albanian International School <\/a>(Tirana, Albania)<\/span> – 19 Comments
\n<\/strong>International School of Azerbaijan <\/a>(Baku, Azerbaijan)<\/span> – 39 Comments
\n<\/strong>QSI International School of Sarajevo <\/a>(Sarajevo, Bosnia)<\/span> – 18 Comments
\n<\/strong>Anglo American School of Sofia <\/a>(Sofia, Bulgaria)<\/span> – 28 Comments
\n<\/strong>American International School of Zagreb <\/a>(Zagreb, Croatia)<\/span> – 29 Comments
\n<\/strong>International School of Brno <\/a>(Brno, Czech Republic)<\/span> – 25 Comments
\n<\/strong>International School of Estonia <\/a>(Tallinn, Estonia)<\/span> – 22 Comments
\n<\/strong>Britannica International School Budapest <\/a>(Budapest, Hungary)<\/span> – 19 Comments
\n<\/strong>International School of Latvia <\/a>(Riga, Latvia)<\/span> – 33 Comments
\n<\/strong>American School of Warsaw <\/a>(Warsaw, Poland)<\/span> – 82 Comments
\n<\/strong>Wroclaw International School <\/a>(Wroclaw, Poland)<\/span> – 46 Comments
\n<\/strong>Anglo-American School of Moscow <\/a>(Moscow, Russia)<\/span> – 66 Comments
\n<\/strong>International School of Belgrade <\/a>(Belgrade, Serbia)<\/span> – 34 Comments
\n<\/strong>Pechersk School International <\/a>(Kyiv, Ukraine)<\/span> – 122 Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are on a trip\u00a0right now, away from your host country, write to us at\u00a0admin@internationalschoolcommunity.com<\/a>\u00a0with your “Can you relate?” traveling experiences.\u00a0 Tell us where you are traveling in the world, what you are seeing and how you are coping with any culture shock.\u00a0 Once your Traveling Around\u00a0experience\u00a0is posted\u00a0on our blog, International School Community will give you\u00a06 free months of premium membership!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around:\u00a0Ukraine Can you relate? \u2022\u00a0Listening to the local radio stations in our rental car and laughing at the unbelievably rapid speed of the disclaimers at the end of each advertisement. \u2022\u00a0Getting a Thai massage in the best rated massage place in Kiev, good price too! \u2022\u00a0Eating at a Georgian restaurant (delicious food!) and enjoying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[457,42,30,32,2351,1286,58,152,2352,287,603,2353,1214],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling-around","tag-comments-and-information","tag-expat-life","tag-international-school-community","tag-international-schools","tag-international-schools-in-ukraine","tag-international-teacher-life","tag-international-teachers","tag-teachers","tag-teaching-in-ukraine","tag-traveling","tag-traveling-around-2","tag-traveling-around-ukraine","tag-traveling-experiences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC_2061.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2flVT-1xC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5615,"url":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-slovenia-life-international-school-teacher-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":5928,"position":0},"title":"Traveling Around: Slovenia (The life of an international school teacher is good!)","author":"ISCommunity","date":"August 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Traveling Around:\u00a0Slovenia Can you relate? \u2022 Enjoying a nice walk along the river that runs through the city of Ljubiana. 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