Russian English teacher Elena Agafónova and her 12-year-old daughter, Irina, are enjoying a one-month stay in Sweet Home with Donna and Juan Ulep.
The Uleps visited Agafónova and her family in Novgorod last year. While there with the Friendship Force, an international exchange program and club, they taught English to Russian students.
Agafónova teaches in a small, rural school in the suburbs of Novgorod. The school has about 280 students in the fifth through the…