After a weekend spent here in Kyiv with my mother, sister, and nephew, I came to school to discover that President Yushchenko just disbanded Parliament and that civil unrest is looming. "Thank God we're flying out of the country today" Patty told me when I called her from school before their return flight. "Don't tell Mom the government collapsed" I said.
"Ukrainian President Dissolves Parliament" I read online, in Vasiliy's classroom, every now and then glancing over at the president's little daughter, there for her ESL lesson with the other second-graders, wondering how much a 7-year-old knows about what her father is up to.
School is closing early every day for the rest of the week, but we're TOLD that's because traffic will be so bad due to roadblocks, demonstrations, etc., not because of potential bloodshed (which newscasters in Russia are predicting, rather gleefully). Who knows? Check the news for updates. Wish I could get CNN here.
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