Snow!

First real snow of the year today! Like a crazy person, I went for a walk. Here are some pictures:

The courtyard by the Orthodox Church.

The bridge

The park on the other side of the bridge

The snow was extremely wet and heavy-- PERFECT for snowballs.

The Orthodox cathedral

The World War II Soldiers' Memorial... it looks even more somber in the snow.

On the edge of the park. I just loved how much the snow stuck to that bush.

My street.

 Since it was my day off, I also took the opportunity to attempt cornbread. Two weeks ago, I'd been discussing Thanksgiving foods with my students. Like many other Ukrainians I've talked to, they had never had cornbread. Since I know this is something for which I can obtain ingredients here, I decided to attempt it. Being that their corn meal and flour are both of different textures, that I have only baking soda and no baking powder, and that I don't have any kind of measuring tools, this venture was highly experimental... and HUGELY SUCCESSFUL.

I used butter instead of oil because I wanted my students' first experience of cornbread to be a positive one. Om nom nom nom nom!