okay picture time

so this image is from last fall but it will give you a good idea of what I did this past weekend. On saturday we played a three game round robin tournament with three american teams and on ukrainian team. \my team beat the pants off every one with my brilliant plays as second basewoman and some solid hitting that got me on base about every time. As a result i was drafted to the All Star team. There was an American All Star team and we played against a semi-professional ukrainian team and got our pants beat this time. It certainly didn't help matters that we had all been drinking and up til the early hours the night before and as we do not play sports super often we were all super sore. As I still am right now and it just keeps getting worse. Its a bad time to be in a country where you have to squat over a turkish toilet to go pee. But the weekend over all has been a lot of fun. Winning was fun, losing less so and seeing my far flung friends is always a huge treat (softball weekend is typically held in central eastern Ukraine). And on Sunday morning we went to an orphanage. We brought presents and played games with the kids and did lots of races and donated money that we have been raising this past six months. Going to the ophanage was simultaneously one of the best and worst experiences I have had in Ukriane. The kids are all so sweet and adorable and fun but it is very depressing to know that they do not have families and all they wanted was to be hugged which works out because peace corps volunteers need hugs too.