Finally settled in Kyiv

OK, well, finally, I've got to write in our blog about how we've settled in Kyiv. This is actually the very first weekend (eversince we've moved our stuff to Kyiv from L'viv on Nov. 19th and moved ourselves) that we had at least some free time, which was not consumed in unpacking bozes and visiting with parents/relatives/friends.

How we've moved?
Actually, today it has been exactly ONE MONTH after we've moved to Kyiv!! Amazing, how time really flies! But on a more informative side I wanted to let all of our good friends (and readers of this blog, I hope) know that we are doing really well and grateful to the Lord that He has provided everything needed to "transport" us to this beautiful city (of course, L'viv is beautiful as well:-)!!

The move itself went really smooth and we were able to use a really large truck - big enough to transport BOTH of Katya's piano's!!:-) So, now, we just need to figure out what to do with them both. Our Kyiv friends and my brother Slavik, came to help us unload the truck. We arrived around 20:30pm and by around 22:00pm all our stuff were upstairs and truck unloaded. Thank you, thank you again to everyone who has helped us in L'viv and Kyiv with this move!

Where we live?
We are renting a 2 room appartment on the 21st flooor (yes, no kidding) of a relatively new appartment building near Zhytomyrskaya metro station. Here's the picture of me on the street right near our building, which was taken by Katya from our balcony...


Can't see me? I'm that little gray spot right near the black car...:-)

Anyhow, you probably can tell that we sort of live "on the top of the world"!! However, our windows do not face downtown Kyiv, so we rather see the Zhytomyr highway and nice forests, which are on the suburbs of Kyiv.


Where we work? 
On November 21st I started my work at the called TA Venture, as a COO (chief operations officer) of the project called Bravoavia. It is an internet resourse where you can book airline tickets quickly and for a goood price. Later on we plan to add hotel booking and car rent. It is a very interesting job and I really enjoy being in a new environment and working with a new team. When I started we had 3 people in the team and we've already hired two more guys, and next year plan to hire 5-6 more people. My direct boss is an Italian enterprenuer (his name is Teodoro), and my indirect Ukrainian boss (Victoriya) is a wife of one of vice-prime-ministers in a Ukrainian government:-) So it is FUN!:-)...

Katya, unexpectedly, has been offered a job of a private teacher to a family of Amercan missionaries that live near buy our appartment. Katya enjoys it very much and it is a good learning expericen for her as well.

We are really grateful to the Lord that He gave us both jobs and hope that this will be a continuous blessing for us, as well as for those we work for.

Church, ministry.
At the moment we are going to different churches and praying that the Lord would show us, which church we should be at. We do not want just to be somewhere, where we like to be, but somewhere where we see a need, and where God can use us for His Kingdom.

This is briefly it about our "new/old" life in Kyiv.