So, summer is more than half-way over, and I want to rewind back to October of 2007, 2 weeks after I arrived in Ukraine. One of the firs things Peace Corps Ukraine (and probably Peace Corps anywhere) tills trainees is that you will have your up days/weeks/months/ and your down days/weeks/months. What you hope is that your ups are for longer and more frequently than your downs.
After almost 10 months in a country, that while it has many similarities to America, is still very, very different, I look back on that big piece of knowledge. I can agree, you will have times that work and your language is going great, and times that your week pretty much stinks and you can’t understand a word someone is trying to tell you…
But isn’t that life in general? There will be ups, downs, backs, forwards, times you understand your work and the people around you, and times that things just don’t make any sense.
My point… today, today is an up day. Why? That’s a little harder to explain. The weekend started like many others. I went out to a nice sushi place with a new volunteer and his host sisters. Saturday was spent reading and ‘studying’ new words of the GRE. When plans with some American University teachers fell through, Brian (from Lugansk) Adam from a town near-by, and Jeffrey from the Crimea came over to just, hang out. And it was great. So I wake up on a lazy, and I mean lazy, Sunday morning. Rain is slowly making its way down under a dark grey sky. Adam has spent the night and I ask him, any plans, “nope, another great day in Ukraine.” So why have our Nesquick Chocolaty Pebbles (yes, they do have that here) and just watched some classic American tv dubbed over in Russian. 1pm rolls around. “you hungry” Adam asks. “Sure, lets get some Shaurma.” (excellent, greasy food) So we headed downtown, got our delicious meal, and then headed to the library where I putted around, briefly reading “The GRE for Dummies.” Got some movies and headed on home. About 5 pm the rain started coming down a little harder. Popped in the North Country, though it might remind me of home…
Excellent movie, kind of depressing. Realizing that it was going to be day of no productivity what-so-ever, I popped in Pocahontas right after… don’t ask. By that point it was 11ish, and I could hear the rain really coming down, and see brief flashes of lighting. “Sweet, a storm is coming in.” So I made a pot of tea, opened up my window in my kitchen, looked out over my big parking-lot across the street, and watched the best storm I’ve seen here roll in. A bold about every 30 seconds. Sipping on my Celestial Seasonings, felling the mist blow through my window, listening to the thunder rumble its way across my valley, I thought “this ain’t so bad” (and yes, these days I think in non-grammatical English.) Reading a recent Sam Cook article about a trip to the Quetico, it helped me realize something. We all need time to connect with ourselves, time to realize who we are as people and what we stand for. Be it looking out at a beautiful moon over a still lake in Canada, or watching a storm roll over a dirty neighborhood in Ukraine, make sure you have that time to remind yourself what is important.
Miss you all! Love, Seth
P.S.
To really put a kicker on it, as I was typing this, the closest bolt yet hit and set off all of the car alarms and dogs in the area. Pretty good.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
back...
So, after 10 days in the mighty west I am back... well, at least in Kyiv. The last time i wrote i was on my way to a 10 day summer camp in just outside of Kosiv, in far-western Ukraine, and now I am finished with probably the best week I have had in Ukraine.
Kosiv is in the south of Ivano Frankivsk Oblast, and right in the heart of the beautiful Carpathian Mountains. I took a train out there with some other volunteers and we arrived Sunday, June 29th in Kosiv. From there, we had to hike the 80 minutes to our camping site. Now, you have to remember that for the last 6 months i have basically just been in Lugansk, where a. it is flat, b. its kind of dirty and c. its dry So i was blown away by hiking up the side of a fairly steep, wet, but absolutely beatiful hillside to our camp for the next 10 days.
Now, I'm not sure how many of you usually go camping with 50 people, but let me tell you, they do it a little differently here. The theory of "leave no trace" is unheard of, so when we arrived at the top of the hill we bypassed the already set up campsite to go into the maddle of a large meadow, and immediately started cutting grass with a scythe (seen in pictures). That stuff is hard work. We had to cute places for the tents, paths to water, etc. We also had to build 3 different toilets (digging toilets and foodpits in thick clay is a good time!!) We also designed some pretty cool firepits and made sure everything was ready for the campers to arrive on Tuesday. Over the next 9 days we taught about 3 lessons a day to 30 campers, ranging from camping, to ecology, to first aid. The rest of the time was spent hiking up and down the hill to a beautiful (well, the water was clean, even if there was trash everywhere) river or hiking into town to prepare food for 50+ people, always a good time.
We also were able to hike Pip Ivan, the 4th highest mountain (2,023meters) in Ukraine, which tooks us 8 hours in total (hiking with 50 people is an entirely new experience. While we were there we were fortunate enough to celebrate a holiday called Ivana Kapala, kind of like a mid-summers holiday which celebrates love. We had some great roasted meet and practiced our jumping over there fire to create good relationships between people.
About 4 days it poured, and many of the students tents failed to pass the test of keeping them dry, but overall, it was amazing. I am exausted as well, and am looking forward to going back and resting a bit in Lugansk before my next big camp in August.
Great to hear from you all.
With Love,
Seth
Kosiv is in the south of Ivano Frankivsk Oblast, and right in the heart of the beautiful Carpathian Mountains. I took a train out there with some other volunteers and we arrived Sunday, June 29th in Kosiv. From there, we had to hike the 80 minutes to our camping site. Now, you have to remember that for the last 6 months i have basically just been in Lugansk, where a. it is flat, b. its kind of dirty and c. its dry So i was blown away by hiking up the side of a fairly steep, wet, but absolutely beatiful hillside to our camp for the next 10 days.
Now, I'm not sure how many of you usually go camping with 50 people, but let me tell you, they do it a little differently here. The theory of "leave no trace" is unheard of, so when we arrived at the top of the hill we bypassed the already set up campsite to go into the maddle of a large meadow, and immediately started cutting grass with a scythe (seen in pictures). That stuff is hard work. We had to cute places for the tents, paths to water, etc. We also had to build 3 different toilets (digging toilets and foodpits in thick clay is a good time!!) We also designed some pretty cool firepits and made sure everything was ready for the campers to arrive on Tuesday. Over the next 9 days we taught about 3 lessons a day to 30 campers, ranging from camping, to ecology, to first aid. The rest of the time was spent hiking up and down the hill to a beautiful (well, the water was clean, even if there was trash everywhere) river or hiking into town to prepare food for 50+ people, always a good time.
We also were able to hike Pip Ivan, the 4th highest mountain (2,023meters) in Ukraine, which tooks us 8 hours in total (hiking with 50 people is an entirely new experience. While we were there we were fortunate enough to celebrate a holiday called Ivana Kapala, kind of like a mid-summers holiday which celebrates love. We had some great roasted meet and practiced our jumping over there fire to create good relationships between people.
About 4 days it poured, and many of the students tents failed to pass the test of keeping them dry, but overall, it was amazing. I am exausted as well, and am looking forward to going back and resting a bit in Lugansk before my next big camp in August.
Great to hear from you all.
With Love,
Seth
Sunday, June 22, 2008
another update
so, its been a few weeks since I gave you an update on what life is like in "the" Ukraine. First off, for some reason, it is no longer, "the" Ukraine, but just Ukraine. I believe it is because when Ukraine was part of the USSR they were a region, so it was the Ukraine, the Latvia, etc. but now, they kind of take offense to it, so JUST DONT DO IT...
anyways, after the great trip to Budapest to see my parents I headed to another volunteers site about 2 hours away from Lugansk for a camp. The camp had about 100 campers from 5th-7th grades. From 9-2 every day for 5 days we had 2 1/2 hours of english class (let me tell you, its hard to decide what students should study for 2 1/2 hours and not be bored as heck. But the weather was great and the kids loved having Americans there to help teach. It went by really quick, but i was ready to go back to Lugansk and relax. And thats what I did for 5 days. Woke up, read, walked around, read, thought about running, read, and then would turn on the Euro 2008 Soccer championships. Good days!
It has gotten a little warmer each day in Lugansk so by now the average temp is 85-90, which meant that i really wanted to buy a fan. Which i did, for about 12$. It is plastic, and deffinitely looks like it was worth 12$. Anyways, putting it together was an experience, because even though the instructions were in English, they didnt really make any sense, so I ended up with 3 extra plastic parts...
On Thursday i took the trian to Kyiv, and Friday took a bus to Rokytna, my staging sight to see the family i stayed with for 2 months back in the winter. It was great to see my host mom and host brothers. The food was excellent and Rokytna is a lot prettier than Lugansk.
Now, i am just sitting in the Peace corps office waiting to go to another summer camp for a week.
Should be fun.
Miss you all,
with love,
Seth
anyways, after the great trip to Budapest to see my parents I headed to another volunteers site about 2 hours away from Lugansk for a camp. The camp had about 100 campers from 5th-7th grades. From 9-2 every day for 5 days we had 2 1/2 hours of english class (let me tell you, its hard to decide what students should study for 2 1/2 hours and not be bored as heck. But the weather was great and the kids loved having Americans there to help teach. It went by really quick, but i was ready to go back to Lugansk and relax. And thats what I did for 5 days. Woke up, read, walked around, read, thought about running, read, and then would turn on the Euro 2008 Soccer championships. Good days!
It has gotten a little warmer each day in Lugansk so by now the average temp is 85-90, which meant that i really wanted to buy a fan. Which i did, for about 12$. It is plastic, and deffinitely looks like it was worth 12$. Anyways, putting it together was an experience, because even though the instructions were in English, they didnt really make any sense, so I ended up with 3 extra plastic parts...
On Thursday i took the trian to Kyiv, and Friday took a bus to Rokytna, my staging sight to see the family i stayed with for 2 months back in the winter. It was great to see my host mom and host brothers. The food was excellent and Rokytna is a lot prettier than Lugansk.
Now, i am just sitting in the Peace corps office waiting to go to another summer camp for a week.
Should be fun.
Miss you all,
with love,
Seth
Sunday, June 1, 2008
a GOOD way to make your mom and sister cry
So, it started off as a typical Wednesday night... Me, sitting in front of my computer, clicking a way at espn websites, listening to music, and drinking a good Ukrainian beer. And then I get an e-mail from my dad. "Why don't you come to Budapest on Saturday..." I thought, yeah, right, like i can just get up and go to Budapest in 2 days, I am in the Peace Corps, come on. And then I thought again, yeah, thats right, I am in the Peace Corps, and im done teaching for the year, why the heck can't I go to Budapest in 2 days! (of course, I needed to get permission from the head office in Kiev, but that was a simple phone call and one form to fill out) so there I was, Thursday morning, 10 am, with one plane ticket to Budapest from Kiev, and now I needed to get a train ticket there for Friday night.
So, its always a little tricky for me to get the exact time, train, date, etc. that I want, but after a wave of panic going through me when the lady at the ticket counter told me there were not any seats left on the first train, she was quick to inform i could get on another train that left only 2 hours later. So, i e-mailed my dad back, told him i was coming (couldnt tell my mom or sister of course) and then waited till Friday, when i got on the 16 1/2 hour train ride (its kind of boring, but not that bad) to Kiev, where i went to the Peace Corps office for an hour, jumped on the bus to the airport, took the 1 1/2 hour flight to Budapest, jumped in a taxi and only 24 hours after I left Lugansk, was at the house in Budapest.
My dad, at this time, had just come back from a school party which both my sister and mom where at, under the guise of "getting some whiskey." So when i pulled up in the taxi, we hugged, i jumped in the shower, and we were off. The party was only 10 min away, and as we were approaching we saw my sister walking around the side of the house. My dad swerved to the side of the road and i jumped out at my sister.
She, hearing the sound of the car door turned, and it looked as if she had ran into a wall, she immediately started crying and gave me a huge hug. It was a great reception. My dad told me to wait, because he wanted to see my mom's reaction. She was in the back of a very crowded living room, so i waited outside as my dad ushered her over. He stepped outside next to me and she came out and just looked at him.
"What" she said,
"Look to your left" he said.
She turned all just shouted
"OH MY GOD" and also burst into tears and gave me a huge hug. It was a great reception, and its great to be back in Budapest for a week again. Great city.
So, my dad definitely earned brownie points for this one, and he earned it!
Hop all is well wherever you are.
-Seth
So, its always a little tricky for me to get the exact time, train, date, etc. that I want, but after a wave of panic going through me when the lady at the ticket counter told me there were not any seats left on the first train, she was quick to inform i could get on another train that left only 2 hours later. So, i e-mailed my dad back, told him i was coming (couldnt tell my mom or sister of course) and then waited till Friday, when i got on the 16 1/2 hour train ride (its kind of boring, but not that bad) to Kiev, where i went to the Peace Corps office for an hour, jumped on the bus to the airport, took the 1 1/2 hour flight to Budapest, jumped in a taxi and only 24 hours after I left Lugansk, was at the house in Budapest.
My dad, at this time, had just come back from a school party which both my sister and mom where at, under the guise of "getting some whiskey." So when i pulled up in the taxi, we hugged, i jumped in the shower, and we were off. The party was only 10 min away, and as we were approaching we saw my sister walking around the side of the house. My dad swerved to the side of the road and i jumped out at my sister.
She, hearing the sound of the car door turned, and it looked as if she had ran into a wall, she immediately started crying and gave me a huge hug. It was a great reception. My dad told me to wait, because he wanted to see my mom's reaction. She was in the back of a very crowded living room, so i waited outside as my dad ushered her over. He stepped outside next to me and she came out and just looked at him.
"What" she said,
"Look to your left" he said.
She turned all just shouted
"OH MY GOD" and also burst into tears and gave me a huge hug. It was a great reception, and its great to be back in Budapest for a week again. Great city.
So, my dad definitely earned brownie points for this one, and he earned it!
Hop all is well wherever you are.
-Seth
Friday, May 23, 2008
SCHOOLS OUT... Almost
So, last week of school approaches, but since I am not teaching classes I would like to think tha tmy summer holidays have started now. (I gave all my students their exams last week, so now I am just hanging around making sure nobody needs anything from me)
And as summer approaches, I am filled with mixed feelings. The weather is beautiful in Lugansk now, almost 80 for the past week, the trees are green and people jus tlook happier. I will be travelling around Ukraine to do some great summer camps, but their is a part of me that still wishes I could be back in Minnesota, working at Camp Warren, going to the cabin, hanging out with friends and doing a canoe trip or two with the family... But, this is where I should be.
I have been filling my time with reading even more books, and last weekend I was 'lucky' enough to experience an American football game between two Ukrainian times. TO put it lightly, neither team was very good, but it was fun nonetheless.
Would like to say that there has been some really interesting things happening lately, but, this is my life in the past couple weeks.
Miss you all,
Love,
Seth
And as summer approaches, I am filled with mixed feelings. The weather is beautiful in Lugansk now, almost 80 for the past week, the trees are green and people jus tlook happier. I will be travelling around Ukraine to do some great summer camps, but their is a part of me that still wishes I could be back in Minnesota, working at Camp Warren, going to the cabin, hanging out with friends and doing a canoe trip or two with the family... But, this is where I should be.
I have been filling my time with reading even more books, and last weekend I was 'lucky' enough to experience an American football game between two Ukrainian times. TO put it lightly, neither team was very good, but it was fun nonetheless.
Would like to say that there has been some really interesting things happening lately, but, this is my life in the past couple weeks.
Miss you all,
Love,
Seth
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Spring rains
Another 3 day weekend, and with only 2 weeks left of 'real class,' the semester has gone by very fast so far. Also, the weather has been beautiful the last couple of weeks and its been hard to get my students focused enough to want to learn some new English words...
But other than that life has been pretty good, however, I have had 2 of the strangest encounters with Ukrainians since I have been here. Wednesday night I got a knock on the door to find a friend of my host moms with another friend who supposedly spoke some English, and wanted to learn more, but all i could get out of him was very fast Russian and some random French words (I guess he had lived in Algeria for a while). So we had a broken conversation for about 20 minutes, not really sure what I ended up agreeing to, that is often the way here. Thursday night was even better. After nto really doing anything productive the entire day, i got another knock on the door at about 8 pm. Since my school is a boarding shcool there is a woman who 'guards' the door when the students aren't there. Anyways, this woman (who i think I had only said hi to once before) proceeded to ask me "do you want to drink wine?" or at least thats all i understood the first time. So i asked her, "what, now?" and she said "yes, now"
So, i followed her into the school were I proceeded to sit in the secretary's office and drink home-made wine out of a plastic beer bottle and listen to her explian why NATO WAS a good thing for Ukraine, and how George Bush was the best president ever because he took care of Iraq and Iran (not sure how, but he did...) and also how bad it was that Americans got paid so much more than Ukrainians. Time went by quickly ( i think the wine helped) so i spent an hour there... It was extremely bizarre.
Friday i spent at a picnic with Brian, Adam (another PCV) and a bunch of people from the church Brian goes to. it was a lot of fun, and the first time I have been around that many people the same age as me.
Now i am sitting in an internet cafe in Lugansk following the scores of the Chelsea and Manchester United games to see who win the English league. I was going to go to a Lugansk Zarya game, but the weather is not so great at the moment, again, Spring Rains.
Hope all of you are having a wonderful May, and its great to hear from you.
-Seth
But other than that life has been pretty good, however, I have had 2 of the strangest encounters with Ukrainians since I have been here. Wednesday night I got a knock on the door to find a friend of my host moms with another friend who supposedly spoke some English, and wanted to learn more, but all i could get out of him was very fast Russian and some random French words (I guess he had lived in Algeria for a while). So we had a broken conversation for about 20 minutes, not really sure what I ended up agreeing to, that is often the way here. Thursday night was even better. After nto really doing anything productive the entire day, i got another knock on the door at about 8 pm. Since my school is a boarding shcool there is a woman who 'guards' the door when the students aren't there. Anyways, this woman (who i think I had only said hi to once before) proceeded to ask me "do you want to drink wine?" or at least thats all i understood the first time. So i asked her, "what, now?" and she said "yes, now"
So, i followed her into the school were I proceeded to sit in the secretary's office and drink home-made wine out of a plastic beer bottle and listen to her explian why NATO WAS a good thing for Ukraine, and how George Bush was the best president ever because he took care of Iraq and Iran (not sure how, but he did...) and also how bad it was that Americans got paid so much more than Ukrainians. Time went by quickly ( i think the wine helped) so i spent an hour there... It was extremely bizarre.
Friday i spent at a picnic with Brian, Adam (another PCV) and a bunch of people from the church Brian goes to. it was a lot of fun, and the first time I have been around that many people the same age as me.
Now i am sitting in an internet cafe in Lugansk following the scores of the Chelsea and Manchester United games to see who win the English league. I was going to go to a Lugansk Zarya game, but the weather is not so great at the moment, again, Spring Rains.
Hope all of you are having a wonderful May, and its great to hear from you.
-Seth
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Books I have read in Ukraine.
Just thought i would make a list of books I have read since I arrived here 7 months ago today. Some of them were good, interesting, and some were just plain bad. Hope you enjoy.
Books I have read in Ukraine- 1 out of 5 stars
1.“Friendship Fires” by Sam Cook **** reminds me of home
2.“Assorted Poetry” by Walt Whitman ****
3.“Charmed Lives” by Michael Korta ***
4.“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger * not as good as the
1st time I read it.
5.“Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides ***** Great read
6.“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho ***
7.“Wolves Eat Dogs” by Martin Cruz Smith *** detective
story about Ukraine
8.“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury ***
9.“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald ****
10.“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle: by C.S. Lewis ****
11.“The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway ***** 1of my
favorites
12.“The Great Gatsby” 2nd time
13.“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle” 2nd time
14.“From Russia with Love” By Ian Fleming *** much different
from the movies
15.“My Brother Michael” By Mary Stewart ***
16.“An Apple from Eden” by Emma Blair **
17.“The Promise” by Danielle Steel **
18.“The Middleman:and Other Stories”by Bharati Mukherjee ***
19.“The Shipping News” by Annie Proulx ****
20.“Java Spider” by Geoffrey Archer ***
21.“Deception Point” by Dan Brown ****
22.“Rainbow Six” by Tom Clancy **
23.“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”
by. C.S. Lewis ***
24. “Motherless Brooklyn” by Jonathan Lethem ***
25.“Vanished” by Danielle Steel **
26.“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling **** (guilty pleasure)
27.“Rabbit is Rich” by John Updike * Not a fan of Updike
28.“Postcards” by Annie Proulx **
29.“Twisted” by Jeffery Deaver **** intriguing Short Detective stories
30.“The Perfect Storm” by Sebastian Junger **** excellent look about “The Storm of the Century”
31.“The Secret Agent” by Joseph Conrad *
32.“Where the Red Fern Grows” by Wilson Rawls **** A classic!
33.“Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama ***** Wonderful!!
Makes me truly hope
he will become the
next President of the United States.
34.“Go Tell It On the Mountain” by James Baldwin **
35.“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain ***
36.“ Plains Song” by Wright Morris **
37.“ May I Cross You Golden River?” by Paige Dixon ***
38.“Hill 568” by Zack Emerson *
39.“ The Hermit’s Story” by Rick Bass *** set of short stories, many about Montana. Interesting
40.“About a Boy” by Nick Hornby ****
41.“The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair ****
42.“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien ****
43.“Philadelphia Fire” by John Edgar Wideman *
44.“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway ***
45.“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling *****
46.“Debt of Honor” by Tom Clancy **
47.“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain ***
48.“Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin *****
49.“The Man Who Invented Florida” by Randy Wayne White ****
50.“A History of the World in 6 Glasses” by Tom Standage **** interesting
look at what has shaped the course of the world!
Books I have read in Ukraine- 1 out of 5 stars
1.“Friendship Fires” by Sam Cook **** reminds me of home
2.“Assorted Poetry” by Walt Whitman ****
3.“Charmed Lives” by Michael Korta ***
4.“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger * not as good as the
1st time I read it.
5.“Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides ***** Great read
6.“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho ***
7.“Wolves Eat Dogs” by Martin Cruz Smith *** detective
story about Ukraine
8.“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury ***
9.“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald ****
10.“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle: by C.S. Lewis ****
11.“The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway ***** 1of my
favorites
12.“The Great Gatsby” 2nd time
13.“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle” 2nd time
14.“From Russia with Love” By Ian Fleming *** much different
from the movies
15.“My Brother Michael” By Mary Stewart ***
16.“An Apple from Eden” by Emma Blair **
17.“The Promise” by Danielle Steel **
18.“The Middleman:and Other Stories”by Bharati Mukherjee ***
19.“The Shipping News” by Annie Proulx ****
20.“Java Spider” by Geoffrey Archer ***
21.“Deception Point” by Dan Brown ****
22.“Rainbow Six” by Tom Clancy **
23.“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”
by. C.S. Lewis ***
24. “Motherless Brooklyn” by Jonathan Lethem ***
25.“Vanished” by Danielle Steel **
26.“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling **** (guilty pleasure)
27.“Rabbit is Rich” by John Updike * Not a fan of Updike
28.“Postcards” by Annie Proulx **
29.“Twisted” by Jeffery Deaver **** intriguing Short Detective stories
30.“The Perfect Storm” by Sebastian Junger **** excellent look about “The Storm of the Century”
31.“The Secret Agent” by Joseph Conrad *
32.“Where the Red Fern Grows” by Wilson Rawls **** A classic!
33.“Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama ***** Wonderful!!
Makes me truly hope
he will become the
next President of the United States.
34.“Go Tell It On the Mountain” by James Baldwin **
35.“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain ***
36.“ Plains Song” by Wright Morris **
37.“ May I Cross You Golden River?” by Paige Dixon ***
38.“Hill 568” by Zack Emerson *
39.“ The Hermit’s Story” by Rick Bass *** set of short stories, many about Montana. Interesting
40.“About a Boy” by Nick Hornby ****
41.“The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair ****
42.“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien ****
43.“Philadelphia Fire” by John Edgar Wideman *
44.“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway ***
45.“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling *****
46.“Debt of Honor” by Tom Clancy **
47.“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain ***
48.“Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin *****
49.“The Man Who Invented Florida” by Randy Wayne White ****
50.“A History of the World in 6 Glasses” by Tom Standage **** interesting
look at what has shaped the course of the world!
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