Dyanmo Kyiv Game

There were a crazy number of policemen at the game!! I've never seen so many in one place before!

Carly, John, me, and Mallory

Shevchenko warming up 

The crazy fan section

Shevchenko leaving the pitch

More police. These guys were blocking the metro entrance.

On April 14th we got to go to a soccer game and it was so much fun! Carly (one of the other volunteers) got free tickets from her school coordinator. Apparently the school coordinator's husband has some connections and was able to get the tickets for us. At first we had so much trouble finding our seats, but then we finally found them and it turns out we had amazing seats!! We were in the business section, right below the private boxes, about 16 rows up, at half field - they were such perfect seats!! It was so much fun! That was probably one of my favorite things I've been able to do here! And then at half time there was free food and I loved that too! I had some normal vegetables for the first time since I've been in Ukraine and I was very excited about it! Dyanmo Kyiv played Vorskla and won 3-0. It was so fun to be able to see Andriy Shevchenko play!! He is actually Ukrainian and I used to watch him on TV when he played for Chelsea in the English Premier League. He is a HUGE deal here! He scored one of the goals and the fans just go crazy over him! They LOVE him! I could not believe how fast it all flew by - it was just so much fun!

(And maybe I should mention that I stole most of these pictures from Carly . . . )