Svitlana sends Thanks!
1 June 2022
Thank you so much for your gift! (Apologies if you are receiving this a 2nd time)
Svitlana arrived in New Plymouth on 12 April and is very excited to be here. She has been using Duolingo every day to start her on her English language journey and has doing a lot of walking and exploring. Clint showed her how to use Google maps to navigate the city and she has been covering a lot of distance on foot and saving the places she likes so she can revisit - she hadn't used any kind of map before so it took a while for her to build trust in Google.
On mother's day we went for a coffee at the caravan at Waiwhakaiho and a walk along the foreshore. Svitlana insisted we also go down to the beach (picture follows) - before arriving in NZ she hadn't seen the open ocean.
On Friday, Cass, Clint, Oksana, Svitlana and I went to a Ukrainian short film fundraising event at Govett Brewster. It was nice to be able to invite Svitlana to something showing community support for Ukraine - much like the support you have shown.
Thank you again, your support means a lot to us. Darren 🙂