Here the Ukrainian and United States cadets play soccer together at the academy.

In today's lessons we discussed how to deal with unexpected situations such as natural disasters and injuries.  The main natural disaster that the Ukrainian cadets identified in their country was a blizzard  When we asked if they got snow days they shared with us that school must go on, come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet! We viewed this as quite unfortunate since those are always the best days for snowball fights and hot chocolate.  Some of the injuries we discussed included hypothermia, frostbite and insect bites.  In particular we talked about ticks and how to properly pull them out with a tweezer.  After lunch we were able to play soccer with six of the cadets. This low key and jovial atmosphere was the best place to interact. At the end of the day we didn't know who won, but we did know we had a great time since everyone in our group played and no one got seriously injured.