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Freddy’s Fun Facts Meet Alex

• Ukraine is the second largest
country in Europe. What transportation do you use?
I’m a nine-year-old MK (missionary kid) in Ukraine named
• In 2004, the peaceful “Orange Alex. When I was ten months old, my parents and I
Revolution” helped moved to Russia. We lived there until I was six.
overturn a fraudulent
election.
We had problems with our Russian visa, so we moved
to Kiev, which is the capital city of Ukraine. There are
• Most Ukrainians speak a lot of similarities between Russia and Ukraine
Russian at home and because Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union
play, but in school all until 1991.
classes are in the
Ukrainian language. Kiev is a beautiful city with many parks, museums,
statues, onion-domed churches, and a big river called

the Dnieper. Thankfully, most people here speak
• Some of the main foods Russian, so we have not had to learn Ukrainian yet.
that Ukrainians eat are
potatoes, cabbage, fish, I've made a lot of friends on the playground near our
pork, beef, and sausage. apartment and in the wrestling class I attend at a
Ukrainian school. I especially like summer when my

parents run a summer camp where they share Jesus with
• On children’s birthdays college students. I make new friends
it is a tradition to stand above and have a lot of fun at camp.
them and pull their ears up-
wards for the number of years Our family doesn’t need a car here
old they are. because the transportation
system is good. We walk a lot,
and we often ride buses, taxis, and the subway.

• On the first day of school
children have a celebration
called “First Bell.” Sometimes a Cook’s Corner: Ukrainians enjoy eating these
child runs around the school
yard ringing a bell, or an older cheese patties for breakfast, dinner, or any time of the
student carries a first year day. They are similar to American pancakes. They can
student on his shoulders as be eaten plain or with a spoonful of sour cream on top.
he/she rings a bell.

Discover why Ukrainians
celebrate New Year’s Day
and Old Year’s Day, see
hopak dancers, and make
strawberry kysil in this
exciting book.

Ukraine (Festivals of
the World)

By Vladimir Basis
ISBN 0-8368-2010-X

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