ME AS A TUTOR

At the UEC, I help students with their assignments, determining paper topics, glancing over a proposed senetence and so forth.

JUST CALL ME PROFESSOR SHAUB

Standing in front of my blackboard, I get ready to teach my Composition One class at International Chrisitian University. As you can see, I have to alter my usual dress code.

THE BARCODE MAN

The UEC has recently started operating its check-out system with a new program written and donated by a friend of Chris'. I spend several hours each volunteering at the Center, usually extracting and printing problematic or missing bar codes from the system and duly applying them.

RUSSIAN, AND ONLY RUSSIAN

My Russian tutor, Zhanna, speaks absolutely no English and often has short term memory lapses, which always makes for an interesting, and sometimes hilarious lesson.

PLEASE DON'T THROW IT!

Each saturday morning, we trek about 20 minutes to a sports complex and play frisbee and both varieties of football (Ukrainian and American) as a way to meet new people and form relationships with them.

THE STUDY CENTER

This semester Nyvky Church launched a "Study Center" to educate interested people about Christianity and its application to contemporary society. This is my class discussing C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce.

Each Saturday evening the UEC sponsors a "student night" which meets at Nyvky church. The fifty or so students listen to Chris gives a short talk,then feast on a massive meal that has been prepared, and then watch a movie in English or enjoy crazy games like "Signs."

A REFRESHING EXCURSION

One Sunday, Oleg (my roommate) and I joined Natasha, Valya (two of our cell members) and Nastia (another church member) on an excursion to Peregova, an enormous open-air museum of ancient Ukrainian villages. We spent nearly threehours walking around the flowers, huts, and wheat fields.

TEA TIME

After our cell meeting, several members stick around to help with the dishes and cleaning up. Finishing the work, we all enjoyed some tea and chatting. Anya and Valya, two of our regular members are on the left, and the other four girls are freshman that attended for the first time that evening.

MOMMA TOLD ME WOMEN WERE DANGEROUS

Liza, Leira, Oksana, and Tanya (from left), fourchurch members, prepare the feast for the swarm of hungry students behind the scenes at student night. Each week different people volunteer to help, and they are very protective of their work, obviously.

A WONDERFUL EVENING
Anya and Lena invited Oleg and I for dinner one night, and Dema, Lena's brother joined us. Their entire family attends Nyvky Church.

A SERIOUS GAME OF PING PONG

After my science and relgion class on Friday nights, which we moved to the church due to the large number of students, we usually stick around and have fun together playing ping pong, painting watercolors, watching a movie, or just hanging out.

CLASSROOM IN SHADOWS

Before class my students sit and discuss how wonderful of a teacher I am, and how excited they are for class to begin. They couldn't wait to be here, so they came early.

CHURCH GATHERING

This past Sunday, Nyvky Church decided to add a second assembly. Several of the students and members pose so that I can record the event.

LOOK WHAT WE MADE!

Each Thursday our cell group meets at 7pm. However the preparation begins long before that. Here Posha and Anya sit behind the spread they have prepared to serve our group this week.

WE NEED A BREAK

In the middle of a competitive game of Frisbee, we pause for some breaths and water. Hopefully, we will be able to continue our weekly game into the frost that is coming soon.

STANDING IN ANCIENT UKRAINE

On a water mill in Peregova, we smile for Oleg's photographic expertise.

IN THE STACKS

Olya takes a little rest atop the new books that were donated to the library and arrived in M-bags. These books occupied a lot of my time at the Center, processing them for the library, but I still hope to get even more stacks during this November's "Harvest of Books" campaign.

DON'T LAUGH AT ME

These are some of my "smart" teaching clothes that I don in order to establish ethos. Teaching is definitely a difficult profession.

LET ME HEAR THE PEOPLE OVER THERE!!

Veronica, an ICU freshman, attempts to win a dance contest at Student NIght. Victor, back against the wall, shared pictures, photographs, thoughts and souveniers from his mission trip to Africa this past summer. The winner of this contest received an African drum; however, they had to dance to very strange African music that Victor had brought home with him.

CLIMBING FOOL

My roommate Oleg, an avid climber, installed a "climbing board" above his door that he purchased from his instructor; now, he's always hanging around.

PICNIC AT PEREGOVA

Hungry from our treking to and around the huge museum, we stop to enjoy bananas, sandwiches and chocolate outside the wall of a ancient wooden church.

PREPARING MY LECTURE

Before class, I stand in the shade and show off my "smart" teaching outfit while I prepare to talk for an hour and a half about run-on sentences and fragments.

FROLIC IN THE CITY

Underneath the grey sky and towering cranes, we play frisbee on the mostly dirt field.