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A visit to the countryside

I was spending my summer holidays in one of the big cities in Ukraine(Kharkov) when my cousin invited me to come along with him to a village for a church program. Those were his exact words a village. As my summer was already getting boring for me. I said it wouldn't hurt to spend some few days in the "village ". So i went to meet up with him via bus then we went by train then got down and continued by bus again to our final destination.
What i saw wasn't what i perceived if you come from Africa you will understand me better. It wasn't a village but rather i will say a countryside. A small town with average social amenities. Everybody knows everyone. Yeah you get that a lot if you live in a small locality.
Apparently, the town hadn't seen a lot of black people visit so we got a bit of staring  here and there but it was pleasing more than racism, they made us feel important .
The town has only 3 pizza joint, so we visited the best according to our host and it wasn't bad at all.
One of the surprising thing for me was the number of Christians. More than half of the the population are Christians... wow... yes... it's amazing right... you don't get this too often in my city Kharkov. They are very nice people and when they get to know you are a christian too then it goes over the bar... you'll be treated like royalty.
These are just few of the experiences I've had so far...  i will write more about this visit in my next article... I  hope you enjoyed reading it.
Read more about the town:
(Ukrainian: Світловодськ,)
"Svitlovodsk" on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svitlovodsk?wprov=sfia1
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