Hello everybody, we host group of twelve volunteers from Poland. They came for two months of summer vacations to organize games and other outdoor activities for children who had to stay in Donetsk for holidays. We would like to present:

Hi! My name is Maria. I come from Poland. I study finance at the University of Gda?sk at the Management Faculty. In my free time I cooperate with the Centre for Youth Co-operation and Mobility in Gdynia as a mentor. This way I got to know about the EVS project in Donetsk. During this project I discovered that I really enjoy spending time with children. I treat it as a challenge because I have never learnt Russian or Ukrainian before;)

My name is Kuba. I am 22 years old and study finance at the University of Gdansk. In my free time I like travelling and doing sports especially swimming and roller-skating

Меня зовут Мартына. Мне 22 года. Я закончила факультет Россияведения, а сейчас обучаюсь на факультете Русской филологии. Я интересуюсь фотографией, Россией (культурой, искусством, литературом) и русским языком

Привет всем! Меня зовут Магда и мне 23 года. В общем я студентка 5 курса русской филологии и люблю Украину Моё хобби – фильмы, путешествование и знакомство с новыми людьми.

Хэй Хоу!! Меня зовут Моника, мне 23 года. Я студентка пятого курса русской филологии. Моё хобби это игра на скрипке и катание на роликах. Больше всего люблю знакоинться с новыми людьми, путешествовать, танцевать, играть в групповые и спортовые игры. Очень люблю общаться с детьми.

My name is Ola. I live in wonderful city Gdansk, situated on the north of Poland, close to the Baltic sea. The biggest love of my life is cinema and everything that is connected with it. So I am spending a lot of time watching weird independent movies and trying to convince or explain my friends to watch it as well.

привет!Я Наташа, но нет from Russia:), а из Польши. 23-летний житель города Гданьск. Я спонтанный, “стадный” человек, который заинтересован… во всем. Со мной можно путешествовать автостопом, учиться инностранному языку,пойти в горы, поиграть в воллейбол, посмотреть футбольный матч, поболтать. Я не люблю рутины. Мне постоянно хочется делать что-то новое, в чем я ещё не так опытная. Сейчас я сделала себе очередной вызов- забыть о возрасте и опять становиться ребёнком! Работать волонтёром на разных, донецких площадках -одна радость. Мой девиз: только ваш образ мышления и ваши взгляды на мир создают реальность вокруг вас.

Привет! Меня зовут Ивона. Мне 20 лет и я самая младшая из польских волонтёров. Ялюблю путешествовать, встречиться с друзьями и слушать музыку. Я приехала сюда, чтобы практиковать языки и познакомиться з восточной культурой

Я Марта мне 21 лет. Я очень люблю веселиться и смеяться. Я открыта для новых впечатлений. По-моему играть с детьми это лучший урок культуры и языка.

Студентка культуроведения и россиоведения. Я специализируюсь в экономике России и бизнесе, с чем я связываю моё будущее. Мои интересы вращаются вокруг культурно-исторического наследия восточных окраин, особенно в Вильнюсе, где корни моей семьи. Наукчно занимаюсь тоже Львовом. Также близка  мне история и культура Вармии и Мазур – моего региона. Люблю футбол и гонки Формулы-1.

Меня зовут Эдыта, мне 22 года. Для меня Украина это страна, где я всегда хочу возвращаться. Первый проект, который проходил в западной части страны, побудил меня провести исследования, которых предметом стал мой любимый город Львов. В свободное время я люблю плавать в бассейне или послушать хорошей классической музыки. Для тех, кто хочет учиться жизни более того, проверить и дать другим что-то от себя рекомендую EVS!

Меня зовут Агата, я на втором курсе в Университете Гданьска россиоведения. Я люблю петь и танцевать …. и слушать русскую музыку

“You read fairy tales …. )
You do not know how happy man you are! ”

Message with such a content I got from a friend. I allowed myself to paste it and quoted in, because, as the Anglo-Saxons say, “it made ??my day”!

Indeed, since I’m back in Ukraine, I started reading stories to little children! And although I was terribly afraid, because I read them in Russian and not as Pope, that is phonetically written, but just as Cyril and Methodius precepts!
I have the impression that I read worse than those little kids who listen to me. But how they are listen! With open mouths, and.. Minds! Because it happens to make a fatal mistake, but no one interrupts me, and not even laughs! Forgiving creatures!

(All the malicious commentators be warn, that after each reading I ask them, if they still wants me to come and read further – so far the answer is one, the choral DA )

To take it further, I asked them to draw about the story. After few months, I already have material for a nice gallery!
Thus, the sample of Donetsk kids arts skills:

Tale to which drawings are related, is called “Cat – traveler” by Gianni Rodari.

Generally, the guy wrote a great fairy tales. Some of them ends with three alternative ways. Children can choose, which they like best! Although in my group, one boy wrote his own!
I would recommend them to read to all parents! May the whole Poland / Ukraine / World reads to children!
Post Script:
When I was riding this day on marschrutka (for reading fairy tales!), having in mind just received mail from a friend and thinking to myself about it and all the vanities of the world, my attention got caught by a piece of paper glued by a gray tape over the door (inside , out was – 20 degrees) with a poem printed on it:

Не зли других, и сам не злись,
Мы только гости в этом мире.
И если, что не так – смирись.
Будь поумнее – улыбнись!

Холодной думай головой,
Ведь в мире все закономерно:
Зло излученное тобой,
К тебе вернется непременно!

Мы не сказали про добро.
Добро ведь лучше нам, чем зло.
Давайте излучать добро,
Чтоб возвращалось к нам оно.

Омар Хаям.

Such a signs the ABSOLUT (and not the Swedish one!), gives me constantly! (BTW The author of this poem is recommended to your consideration!).

And answering to friend, I will say that it is interesting that our own happiness we often do not notice (After all, there is nothing that pleased us more than misfortune of others) until it won’t kicked us in… 

I am trying to be aware of my personal happiness as much as possible, especially because it is partially planned!

I have short story for you for today. And how it is mostly with stories, there will be not that much comments . Commenting I’m leaving for you:P. I will just say that for me the level of complication whole that adventure was surprising.

As some of you know, we live in quite big flat at Kirova street. What is important for the story, the flat consist of two smaller, combined into one big. Also, the arrangement of the rooms in the flat is completely different than it was. In the bathroom there was also a kitchen before, kitchen was divided into bathroom, kitchen and something else. How it is with the rest of the rooms I have no idea, I haven’t seen any other flat in our block, but probably also changed. Result of it is that we have big and nice place to live. So that was small description of the flat. So now let the Gas Story begin:

START:

The end of February, Thursday. There was big gas leak found somewhere close to our block. It was no problem, nothing dangerous for us, but as it needs to be done, ГорГаз decided to control the condition of installations in whole neighborhood. And that is the moment since when problems started.

Gas was cut off because of the leak, but just after control ladies saw what was done with gas pipes in our bathroom during last repair works, they said, that gas is not going to be back until everything in our flat will be done as it need to be.

First of all, all installations  in the bathroom and in the kitchen were illegal. Nobody checked it after it was done by construction team, what is more, it looks like they had no idea how to make it right, or just they wanted to plug everything in the cheapest way it was possible. Nice way of dealing with gas in the big house, right? It’s not allowed and totally unsafe to put gas БОЙЛЕР in the bathroom, or to have gas pipes hidden deep in the wall. We, of course had it that way.

Moreover, I found something really interesting in the bathroom during making small demolition together with our neighbour Паша: in one place instead of small and cheap thing called ЗАТЫЧКА there was just a piece of gips in the gas pipe. I guess I don’t need to say how shocking for us it was.

Ok, one time we had small explosion there.  I lost some of my hairs then, actually nothing worse happened, but looks like whole time there was a danger of bigger BUM. With fireworks and flames.

And how it was with fixing the problem: During almost two weeks almost everyday (except weekend) we had a guests (:D) in the house. It was, as Piotrek counted, about 20 of different people, starting from ГорГаз repairing crews, landlady and her husband, to controlling ladies and neighbors. From some of them we were getting papers to sing (as we are not owners, our signs there were not valid, but we were signing anywayJ), from the rest instructions what needs to be done with pipes, and how всё узаконить. Of course in specialist language and very fast.

On the end, after 12 days, the Gas Story was over. Now everything is working and it is done in a proper way. Finally we had free bathroom and hot water there. The great relief for us of course, but also for neighbors living under and above us. Now we hope there will be no problems anymore. And what can I say, it was a good show of building in really cheap way and not caring about possible consequences.  Like somebody said: человек учится всю жизнь. And now after whole that I feel I know about life here a bit more.

Greets!!!