Ukrainian Junk Food

Natasha's homeroom class has a daily break from 2-4 pm. Our daily visits have been scheduled around that breaktime. Today we spent the time in her classroom with most of her other classmates. They had gone to the store for some snacks and we sat around snacking, watching the equivalent of the Disney Channel and looking through the childrens photo albums and artwork. We learned some new words and taught some new words. Natasha knows more English than she lets on:)

Natasha's homeroom class has about 10 students. We have gradually gotten to know each of them by name and know a little of their individual personalities. Today we learned that most of the kids have been together for years, perhaps since pre-school. Really these 10 kids are like a big group of siblings, like family. They have the same homeroom, they share living quarters and they all go to Sicily during school breaks.

The scene in the homeroom today was a fun bit of chaos. The girls were watching something like the Cheetah Girls on TV, except in Italian. The boys were less interested. All of them pulled out their personal photo albums and pridefully showed us a mixture of photos from school, starting in kindergarten, to photos from Italy with thier Italian families, to artwork projects. We swapped words and joked at some of the photographs.

They shared all of their snacks with us, and really would not take "no thanks" for an answer. They had bubble gum with some type of trading cards, coffe flavored hard candy, some wierd cracker that was too sweet for a cracker but not sweet enough for a cookie. Not good. :(

My personal favorites were bags of flavored chips, kinda like potato chips. Take your pick, ham flavored, salmon flavored or caviar flavored. That's what I call Ukrianian junk food!