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I would appreciate your help, dear reader. I have opened a small store with my photographs put on different merchandise. 30% of my royalties go to different funds and volunteers to support the Ukrainian Army that is working hard on liberating my motherland. Here are some examples of the things you will find in my store All merchandise can be sent internationally. I would really appreciate your…

what you wish for. Sequence #3

Sequence #3A year and a half ago my husband and I came to Ukraine. We lived in a different country and decided to give my native country a chance. We dreamt about a house in Ukrainian Carpathians and a simple lifestyle. We even checked a couple of houses sitting on the side of a mountain with the nearest neighbor so far that you wouldn’t even know about their existence. But we didn’t go for any…

what you wish for. Sequence #2

Be careful what you wish for. My grandfather once told me: You don’t know life, you haven’t lived through the war. Our thoughts are material, now I know it. Sequence #2When I was younger I loved big cities. I thought I could live in any of them and never get annoyed or fed up with their rhythm. I liked to hear their noise through the open window at night or in the early morning when the city…

Be careful what you wish for. Sequence #1

Be careful what you wish for. My grandfather once told me: You don’t know life, you haven’t lived through the war. Our thoughts are material, now I know it. Sequence #1I remember when I travelled for the first time to Krakow I walked around and looked at the gorgeous architecture and wondered what it is like to live in a house that was built a long long time ago. Those houses fascinated me. I…

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Do Ukrainians celebrate St. Valentine’s Day?

Q & A about Ukraine

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Do Ukrainians celebrate St. Valentine’s Day?

Hey, guys! Hope you are having a wonderful day! So it’s not so many days till St. Valentine’s Day! Wow, you would think, she really waits for this holiday! Well, I just opened a calendar and checked how many days left till my vacations and realized that St. Valentine’s day is in the same batch )) But how about you? Are you getting ready? Do you have any ideas on how to celebrate it? Are you…

Welcome to my University, Chernivtsi National University

Hello everyone everywhere! Yesterday despite the cloudy dreary weather we took a quick trip to Chernivtsi, the place where I spent 5 years of my life as a student. I wanted to show my husband my University and a little bit of old town which carries features of old Austrian style pretty much in every building of the old center. And, of course, I wanted to boast with the magnificent building of my…

Zalishchyky is a small town in western Ukraine. It is famous for it’s panorama and a unique climate. Sitting on the bank of the second biggest river of Ukraine it has seen turbulent times and moments of tranquility.

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Ukraine’s thorny way to independence

Hello everyone everywhere! Today I want to tell you a very serious and tragic story. I don’t want my blog to be just entertaining reading but make people think and learn things about the world. My today’s story will tell you about horrible times that my country had to go through on its way to independence. I bet all of you have heard about soviet intelligence service KGB. In all Hollywood action…

How we were making cheese

Hello everyone everywhere! How’s your weekend? It’s freezing cold here, the temperature dropped to 10.4F and it’s windy which makes everything even worse. Days like this are good for sitting at home and cooking something tasty. One of our recent culinary experiments was making cheese! Yes, you read it right – cheese. I don’t mean cottage cheese which is relatively easy to make, but that other one…