Received Referral Letter

Today we received our referral letter allowing us to travel to Odessa. It's not actually a letter - it's more like a packet. We received a red file with a copy of our bound Dossier and several letters all written in Ukranian. We are to carry it with us on our trip to Odessa and provide it to our in-region facilitator/translator tomorrow.

We spent the day packing the way to many items we brought and reading. The entire process is stress filled, so a downtime day was nice. Tonight we take our chances on a flight from Kiev to Odessa. Our travel choices came down to an 11 hour overnight train ride or a 1 hour flight. We chose to fly. Our travelmates are taking the train.

We hope we can see Alex tomorrow. We don't know if we will or not. We've learned to just go and do what we are told to go and do. We don't ask questions. It will happen when it happens here and asking questions just delays the process.

I'll write more when we are situated in Odessa. Cynthia