Some pictures from my trip to Odessa, Ukraine.
My Russian class in Odessa
Girls in a Ukrainian movie filmed in the city center
My Russian teacher hopping a fence
Secretary at the Language school in Odessa
A kid hanging on to the back of a tram
My apartment had a bear skin rug
A Babushka giving me the evil eye.
They got paid $10 to stand out there for the Orange for 5 hours. They weren’t volunteers and many people thought the “Orange Revolution” was actually financed like this.
A rally for Victor Yushchenko and the orange party in Odessa
Some people at a pub in Odessa. The guy on the right is from Seattle and also growing a mustache.
Famous steps in Odessa
Nice park in the center of Odessa
Communist War memorial outside of Odessa.
The deadbolts to my apartment
Interesting picture at a mall showing Lenin as some type of Jeses/healer
A guy from Texas posing with a Lenin statue
An outdoor market in Odessa. There were markets like this all over the city.
Me on a tram touring around the city
The gravestone for the inventor of the Molotov Cocktail
A nice street in Odessa.
A beach in Odessa. Lots of speedos and old people
A bus stop in a suburb of Odessa
A church across from the train station
This is the most elegant food court I have ever seen
Big slabs of meat here at this meat market
A babushka looking cold even though it was about 75 degrees outside.
Construction and traffic outside of Odessa
An American guy looking for a wife in Odessa. For some reason these guys wouldn’t bother to learn Russian before looking for a Russian speaking wife
Marriage Agency sign in Odessa
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