Day 41 - The Waiting Game

Now that court is done, we must wait for an additional 10 calendar days for the Judge’s decision to take effect. We are told this is when all the third parties are given time to review all the documents and ensure all is in order. We are confident this is the case so all we can do is wait. We are planning to receive the final court decree on Monday 1 December and then spend the next four days getting a new birth certificate, passport and Canadian visa. If all goes as planned, we have leave Ukraine on 5 December. We will add a new post every couple of days for this week, as we do not think much will happen here.

Winter has finally arrived and the town looks beautiful in white. Last Friday was Saint Michael’s Day, so to all people named after him happy namesake! Saturday evening, Lisa and I noticed candles burning in almost everyone’s windows. We asked some friends what this meant, and they explained it was the 75th anniversary of “The Holodomor” or Great Famine where the Soviets murdered (through starvation) almost 5,000,000 Ukrainians. It was a noticeably sombre evening around town.