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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 an...