Concrete

On my train rides and travels threw Ukraine I am amazed how much concrete their is most all building including small houses are made from concrete some other interesting things I have noticed is fences most of them are precast concrete some are painted up very nice also most of the electric poles are also made of concrete as well as most usual things. We are now on the train back to Gorlovka I must say I am a little sad to be leaving Novamiragrad and the kirovagrad region it seem to have a strong agriculture base but now all the fields are plowed waiting for spring. The city of Kirovagrad is fairly large and quite nice we spent the day traveling around the city doing the paperwork stuff with our driver from Novamiragrad he drove us most of the time we were their a few weeks ago. His taxi car was made in 1974 I think he said it was a russian made Fiat. I really enjoyed riding around in it, it reminded me a lot of when I was a young teen and I would ride threw the fields and woods with my friends daryl and mark the sad part is the pot holes and ruts back then where not as severe as the ones here. One stretch of road was really bad and I asked how often they repaid the road thinking his reply would be never but he said once a year but the main "highway" more often. The drivers do their best to avoid them when possible which means some time leaving the road their has been many times driver will pull off onto the sidewalk and around some trees to avoid the really large ones. Before we left freda realized our driver had not eaten all day so she invited him to dinner were ever he wanted he suggested a pizza parlor so we ate their and afterward he took us to a mall with a bookstore so we could buy some books to teach the girls english from their native language. Their was many to choose from especially for younger kids I have not seen such book in the US and that kind of stuff seem expensive on the internet. This is Tanyas first trip on a train and she seemed fairly excited. Our train left at 9pm and we settled down made our beds and she fell asleep quickly. The car we are in is different than the others it only has 4 cabins and the rest of the car is a snack bar.
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