MAKEYEVKA KINDERGARDEN

This week found us traveling down a different road. We were back in Donetsk visiting organizations. This is Bruce following Olga (our interpretor) and a man we met on the bus who offered to help us find the Kindergarten we were looking for. He was leading us down this road where we passed 2 men searching through the garbage cans for food and a poor injured dog with a lame foot, then through all these apartment buildings. We passed one open doorway where a woman was sitting on the floor the man smiled and waved as we passed. He told Olga it was his apartment and that was his mother. This was one of those moments as I stopped to take this picture when I found myself thinking, "it is strange what we have become accustomed to." We had just traveled by the bus transferred from the bus to a marshooka, met this man who got off the bus with us and led us down this road, the men rummaging through the trash, the injured dog, the holes in the road, trash on the ground, just felt so "normal". As I walked behind Bruce and caught a glimpse of how out of place he looked in his suit I just had to have a picture of it.
Once we arrived at the school our new friend said goodbye and went on his way. Well, I have to take back what I said about Donetsk. There are some nice friendly people in Donetsk too. Like I said before it is all in your attitude.