Photojournalism...sort of...

...but not really. My bff, Kat, is actually trained in photojournalism, so she's going to laugh and potentially roll her eyes when she reads that title. Despite that, here are pictures of Day 3/Night 2:

Juliana (blonde hair, far left) and Matt (dark hair, far right) chatting with their groups. If you squint, you can see Vova's head bobbing over the top of everyone else's heads.

Switch to the other side of the room: Julie (dark clothes, back to the camera) and Alex (back table, blonde hair) doing the chatting on the other side of the room. This class was super great to talk to and spend time with.

Evening Program #2 was Game Night. Big hit! Ukrainians love a good game! We set the room up into stations. There were originally four...almost 90 people showed up that night, so we had to last-minute add another station! We had almost NO room, but everyone had a great time. This particular game requires the team to stand on the table cloth and then flip it over, using only their feet- and they're not allowed to step off of it.

Stas likes to "pose"

This game requires the entire team to travel from the start line to the finish line, but they have to have their feet touching at all times. If anyone loses foot contact, the whole team has to start over. Yikes!

I didn't get an action shot of this game, but the goal of the game was to keep a balloon in the air for a certain amount of time. However, after you've hit it with one hand, that hand goes behind your back and you can't use it again. After going through that round of the game, everyone has to hold hands and keep the balloon in the air. Sounds simple and basic, but this was always the rowdiest game to calm down when it was time to rotate stations...

In this game, the team has to get the dowel rod from standing to the ground without anyone losing contact with the dowel at any given time. It's actually quite tricky.

Friends: Alina and Dasha

Alex and her new little friend.

This was actually not staged. Completely candid.

Sweet (married!) friends: Maya and Vova. Check out Vova's shirt from last year's Union group!

Dasha and Celia: same spirit, different nationalities.

Night 2 went exceptionally well. Lots of great conversation was had, connections were made, and we hit a much larger number of attendees than we could ever have expected. SO good!