The Traveling Gnome - All Comments

re: My First White Christmas

Liz — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:55:58 GMT

I'm so glad you had a good Christmas after all. Enjoy Christmas II - I'll be going back to school that day.

Are you staying warm? I heard Russia cut off the gas!

re: My First White Christmas

Alise — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:20:11 GMT

Merry Christmas! You should watch The Holiday instead of Love Actually.

I spent Christmas in Oklahoma and there wasn't any snow. I missed the quiet peacefulness that snow brings. You are lucky!

re: The First Snow

Alise — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:16:45 GMT

Claire in the snow! I can picture the little gnome now!

re: My First White Christmas

Brayden Shushok — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:42:03 GMT

Claire that is so cool

You have the nicest fellow teachers

I wis my teachers did that

re: My First White Christmas

Ashley Killough — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:58:53 GMT

What a great post. I'm so glad to hear you are now digitally connected! Merry Christmas, Claire. (And have fun celebrating it a second time next week!)

re: My First White Christmas

Luke Blount — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:57:28 GMT

Merry Christmas!

re: My First White Christmas

Stanislaw Kobylak — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:34:58 GMT

Thanks for a nice artickle about the Christmas at my

Home town Stanislawow (for 300 years) now Ivano-Frankivsk. I was born there just across the Bystrzyca

Solotynska River in 1930, when it was part of Poland.

I attended school in Stanislawow, just few blocks from tha market place.We lived there in the little Polish Comunity of UHRYNOW DOLNY just north of Uhriniv RR Station.

On Feb 10/1940 our family and tens of thousand mostly Polish families were arrested by Soviet NKVD with the help of some local communist sympatizers and we were sent to labor camps in Soviet Siberia. I was just 9 years old then.

I survived and after 10 years of travels, through Russia, Kazakstan, Uzbekstan, Kkirgistan, Caspian Sea, Iran , 6 yrs in Zambia, Africa, and 2 yrs in London Englad I found myself in

Rossford, Ohio.

Hope all your wishes a desires come true in the coming

NEW YEAR 2009. Wishing you Happiness a Love.

PS: I love my home town, I was there last in 2007 for couple of weeks. I aspecialy love Karpatian Mountain area,

Nadvorna, Kolomiya and south to Yaremcha, Vorohta, Kosovo and entire Hutsulshchyzna is beautiful.

You must see it before you came home to USA.

Learn the History of the place,

e-mail stanislaw@netzero.com

re: The First Snow

janice — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:32:46 GMT

gnome, this reminds me of when we were in colorado in alise's backyard! :)

re: Home Sweet Home

C. Sam Smith — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:25:28 GMT

Claire, my love and my daughter in the faith!

I continue to be very proud of you! Thanks for your informative blog posts, and for the insights into your current pioneering life...spreading peace to that land.

I want to wish you a merry Christmas, and hope that you can rmember Jesus as you have Christmas far away...

All the best, and the Almighty's protection to you,

Sam Smith

Waco, TX

re: The First Snow

Virginia — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:10:02 GMT

I still looooove snow even after years of working on the flightline in upper Michigan, living in Ukraine, and being originally from the Iowa/MN border...I use people's reaction to snow as a litmus test for their character and their sense of humor. I hope you continue to find joy in snow, even at -50 wind chill factor. Life is just too short to be cynical and surly and bitter.

Keep posting about your adventures and observations!

"Ginn"

Virginia J. Pulver

Watching the Snow Pile up in Santa Fe

Ukarien 2005-2007: www.pulverpages.com

re: Home Sweet Home

Betty — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:31:47 GMT

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Betty

www.my-foreclosures.info

re: Home Sweet Home

Renee Westcott — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:01:32 GMT

If you were my education of what an american is...I would think they are pretty good people! Thanks for spreading peace (especially during this Christmas season) and English to the future generation. I hope you get a few more nice gifts for your apartment!

re: "Please! Can we have English?"

Ashley Killough — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:42:09 GMT

Only you could entice children to skip recess and learn about words. I miss you, America!

re: "Please! Can we have English?"

Jill Leger — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:17:52 GMT

I'm so proud of my cousin!

re: The First Snow

Christopher Wink — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:20:48 GMT

Beautiful photo, Claire. After that volleyball spectacle, I hope you were hurling snowballs at unsuspecting Ukranian 19-year-old boys so they know how fearsome American women are.