I had an online class with a student from Kharkov, Ukraine. I remember hearing the city name in the news on accounts of the war; so I wondered how the student was doing. Wasn’t she in a war zone? Would the class even happen?
It seemed as if the class was akin to having an online class with a student in Stalingrad during the great WW2 siege. The student would say: Sieges, you know, are mostly boring. Nothing much to do. So why not fill the extra time with a class.,,
Any who, the student in Kharkov left me with the impression that life was still going on in Ukraine despite the war: she was working three days a week as a dentist, and going to Yoga classes on her off days. She had left Kharkov for a year, but then she returned. There weren’t as many students in her Yoga class. Kharkov had shrunk in population from 1.5 million to 1 million.
Was the student being brave and plucky? After the class, she was going to make dinner.
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