The Ukrainian Weekly recently reported that,

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has signed a bill which requires that public high schools in the state teach about genocides worldwide, including the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933. [...] According to a statement released by the governor’s office on August 5, Mr. Blagojevich signed House Bill 312 into law the same day, “expanding Holocaust and genocide education for Illinois elementary and high school students.” [...] “In addition to learning about the Nazi atrocities of the 20th century, students will now learn about more recent acts of genocide around the world, including those in Armenia, Ukraine, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Sudan,” the governor’s statement said.

As most Ukrainians know public schools tend to inundate their students with history on the Nazi Holocaust of 1933-1945, not even mearly mentioning any other historical holocaustsof the time. Ukrainians have been trying to even out the curriculum for quite some time now, and many efforts to do so have been snubbed with a simple “we’ll work on that” attitude.

In a mark of trimuph, school districts in Illinois have the entire academic year to meet the law’s requirement. Hopefully we can anticipate more bills like the one just passed to appear within the country soon.

Heeeyyyyy ya! I am back home. Took three and a half hours to get home last night… not fun. But anyways… dance camp was nice. The show went rather well, I think. Show on Wednesday… and Wildwood Thursday morning. I don’t feel like typing. Photos here, with more to come.

I just cleared out a whole bunch of disgusting spam comments. I’m confused as to why my spam checker within this blog didn’t pick them up.

- Have the day off today from dance camp. Here’s a funny bit I found online…

This crazy lady here found the face of Jesus on one of her vareneky.

I swear, there has to be a Jesus stamp somewhere, and if there isn’t I’m going to make one. This little fried imprint is too perfect tojust magically appear on the pierogie. And another question I have, where’s the onions? I don’t see any butter! Tisk tisk.

[edit] Here is the online photo album. The Desired: Photos – There will be a custom theme when I get around to it. [/edit]

Well, I am back home for a few days, and then it’s off to counselor dance camp at Soyuzivka. Counseloring children’s Discovery Camp was lovely. But first let me start off with Workshop ‘05.

There was lots of fun to be had all throughout workshop. The days were long, I was usually stuck in the dance hall until 10:30 or so at night. Keep reading this »