THE UKRAINIAN TUTOR
She was redheaded Olenka, a natural looking though henna-colored redhead, not like the overkill types that were as common in the city as green grass and leaves on a sunny summer afternoon in Striysky Park. Nicholas made an arrangement with her after he had met her. They hit it off quite well at a weekly English-language conversation club meeting at the British Council office at the university. Three hours per week of Ukrainian lessons in exchange for three hours of English. They met in the late morning on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. When the weather was nice, which in often gray Lviv means not raining too hard, they would go for a walk, usually in the park right next to the university. Other times they would go to one of the cafés near the university, most often t
