My First Weekend Trip

So far I've spent six month in country and never travelled anywhere overnight other than for work reasons.

It's time to change that, and I think that April will prove to be a busy month. It all starts this weekend with a trip to Odessa.

Odessa has over one million people and is a real city. I have yet to go, but as travel guides only rave about four places in Ukraine, Odessa being 1, I am super excited about it. (For the record, Kyiv, Crimea, and Lviv are the others).

This weekend Odessa has it's largest carnival, the Humor Carnival to celebrate April Fool's Day. Supposedly it's a big deal and I didn't want to miss out. The city is particularly known for it's sense of humor, which is dervived from it's Jewish population. Many famous comedians come from Odessa, including the entertain who dresses up like a woman and sings songs and supports the Green party.

Odessa is also known for its extreme beauty, built to be a crown jewel for Catherine the Great, the archetecture is supposedly more European and grand than most cities in Ukraine.

Odessians are themselves supposedly a breed apart knowing that they are inhabitants of a charmed city.

All of this will be checked out this weekend for verification.