random stuff;general thoughts

for the last two days, i’ve been having flashbacks..its so weird! pictures of Kyiv float into my head at random moments, i can smell the smells and feel the breeze..and it breaks my heart! i miss that place soo much!

Kyiv is so so so beautiful, anyone who has been there will vouch for me..see, my mom is ukrainian, and my dad is Nigerian( its pretty cool) so on holidays, we sometimes go to Kyiv (i live in Nigeria) to see my grandparents..ah well, they are cool, but basically, Kyiv iz tha shit!

especially at night, ‘nochnoiy Kyiv’ as it’s called, Kyiv at night..you should see, the lights, the buildings..its just so amazing, there this feeling to it , you basically wish it would go on forever..

Now, part of this charm lies in the fact that it’s an old city, really historic, so the buildings, the roads even, most have the original stones (like on Andryivskiy spysk, or uzviz) thats one helluva historic street! and its really cool, if you take a walk down it(yea it slopes) there are artists all the way, with all sorts of things on sale (the pictures are to die for)..

 and then there are the Monasteries(i have to add here that i was in Kyiv last september, after like 5 years, so im all grown up, and can finally appreciate a lot of things!), i went to the “pecherskaya lavra” first, really really nice monastery, its like so big! and..beautiful! when you go in theres buildings, and you can see benches and stuff, and there are stones on all the walkways…and then you get to the actual church buildings..anybody who knows anything about how the Ukrainian Orthodx churches..will understand me here, its divine! the building, first of is ages and ages old, nmore than 500 years..and all the gold leaf detailing, and when you get inside, you feel the presence, i dont know how else to explain it, you just feel like youre in a church..

Ok, so i didnt go there to attend a service(would have been nice, but that wasnt why i was there so)..we wanted to ee the caves! now that was an attraction! so we walked down this steep hill, and it was so slippery! my shoes definetely wernt made with the intention of walking on the stone walkways…nevertheless

We got to the entrance f the tunnels, and they were like we had to cover our hair, and me, i had to wrap something round myself, like a skirt (i had on a pair of, well, tightish trousers) and we got these skinny yellow candles..and went in

the passages were really narrow, (oh heres an interesting fact, these passages and caves are said to have been dug by the monks, and some of them even go under the Dnipro, and to the other side..didnt see those,dont think those were open to “tourists” so anyways im going down this tunnel, one at a time, and it gets so, well its hard to explain, but its kind of an eerie feeling, i wanted to run out so fast..but there was this mafia lookin’ guy behind me, and i didnt think he’d be impressed, so i just went on..and i thought i had been scared, turns out that some of the saints are kept down there, yea, kept down there, as in bodies in coffins..i was spooked, and then there were people praying, over them and kissin on the glass and stuff (hey whatever you believe in right??) and then they were doing a little service in this little chapel there, and we stopped there for a bit, and i started crying! of all things, but there was this feeling, i cant explain, it was really emotional though.. 

Finally got out,walked round a bit..and went to mcdonalds for a coffe, not really sure..hmm, when i started out writing this, i really didnt plan for it to end up as a description of the day when i went to Pecherska..oh well, ill have to write the other stuff in subsequent posts.. oh and theres the other monastery i went to Sofyiska, its smaller than Pecherska, but uits so pretty, and its more in the center, and right in the square near it, wonderful sight..right now im tired, have a headache and have to get up early tomorrow, so ciao for now, ill continue with random thoughts and impressions of Kyiv later.poka! lol ciao

 hey a thought just occoured to me, ill put up some pictures for you to see..comments are all too welcome!

hmm interesting story behind this one, i thought i had lost it forever, i actually went into a slight depression over it for two days, i stayed up late, and typed it, and then i dont know what i did, but my computer turned off…i was devastated, all THAT?! and it went like THAT (snapping my fingers)..i came on today, to type something along the lines of “i had a good long post written, i put a lot of time into it, and it got lost forever, and i honestly have no motivation to re write it..and i got saved as a draft! so yay for me!! lol, ok, its like 3 am, im tired, and i want to go and read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince-read it before, but all the HP books are sim[ly marvelous..uhm, ok, thats it for now, ill go into Harry Potter in the next post..hmm now i have something to write about!!! lataz