4 months in AUBG\Meeting the Bulgarian President

Despite studying in ELI  many unbelievable things occured during my surviving.

First of all, I was lucky but surprised to meet the actual President of Bulgaria. Accidentally did  I meet him. I was surprised by the fact that no huge-preparations were done. Nobody was obliged to wear uniform or follow only a particular path. The day seemed completely the same as the any other day. I did not even know the President was coming although there were some ads but I didn't pay any attention on them. Rosen Plevneliev gave a speech at the university, which I didn't manage to attend because I was making varenyky. In fact, I  was surprised how the atmosphere was so  relaxed and unpretentious. I faced with the President of Bulgaria on the  first floor of the campus I lived on. Basically, everything happened all of a sudden. I was giving back an iron when the  President came. Unbelievable it may seem. The President shook hand with the students, who were there at that moment. Someone said : "Guys, if you don't speak Bulgarian say "hi" in English". I did not expect to meet the President and I've been in shock for a long time since then. I'm really impressed there were no huge  preparations; nobody stopped the traffic or blocked the road ; in my country when the president even a mediocre politician  comes all roads are closed and the traffic is stopped. Surprise.

Secondly, we had a Christmas Bazzar in AUBG and we raised over 100 euro. The money will be spent on shoes and clothes for the local kids house. I'm happy being involved in charity and  volunteering. I spent the whole day selling food  albeit I had been tired couple days before but I enjoyed selling and serving.

The most interesting part of these 4 months was making  varenyky. To begin with, I had spent 3 hours cooking them and 5 mins cleaning the kitchen from dough-mess because  I was run out of time. Everybody liked varenyky. I was so happy to bring a piece of the ukrainian culture on campus!  Later, I was teaching how to make varenyky to Americans and not only to them. I must say we managed to make a huge number of varenyky for 1.5 h. Amazing! Varenyky a little bit  resemble dumplings but can be made with both sweet and salty inside.

Also, I was taught to do CPR.
These 4 months were significant with Ukrainian meetings. We  cooked  Ukrainian dishes only such as : borshch, mlynzi ( pancakes), salo with bread, crabstick salad and kiev's cotelettes. I'm happy that  Ukrainians are gathering on campus time to time. So  we spent hours  talking in Ukrainian. Also, the day before leaving we gathered again and ate salo. Although we were happy eating salo we also watched movies and on the 3rd movie we dropped off. It was so unusual but sweet to sleep in a coat sharing a bed with 3 other people. It was pointless to leave a room because most of us had to wake up at 7am.

 I passed my finals successfully so Step 3 is waiting for me. These 4 months were full of changes but full of obstacles. Step 3, here I go.

Bulgaria. What is it like? The useful words, the differences.

I’ve been living in Bulgaria for 2 months already hence I noticed some differences. In other words, what is so special in Bulgaria? Here is the list of my first impressions.

1. Greetings. Politeness? Mostly sales assistants  greet with customers and wish a good day. It’s unusual for me either because they speak Bulgarian or I forgot how it was back in my hometown. In a grocery I'm not asked whether I need a bag with me or not I'm wished a good day.

2. Zavkyshte is the most useful word in a café which means – to go. Almost in any cafe, even the smallest one, it's possible to order food to go.

3. Huge portions. Here for a cheap price I can eat 600gr of pasta with meat or 400gr of salad despite the usual 150\200. Impressive!

4. Most of the cafes here are open 24\7. It’s okay to go to the cafe at 2am. Some of bistros pizza places  opens at 12 or 2 am!

5. Mayo, ketchup, chili pepper, vinegar, oil are in the usual kit on your table in any café for free.

6. Crazy drivers. Always be very careful while passing the road here, sometimes cars don’t stop. They just make a lower speed, slow down for a while and as soon as you 1 cm forward, a car will very fast run out behind your back. Watch out !

7. Police. Here is the law that forbids listening to loud music from 2pm-4 pm. While we were shooting Lip-Dub in AUBG someone called to the police because we were playing the music. The campuses are pretty far from ordinary houses and not many people walk by dorms. Uhm.

8. Tradition. I don’t know if this is a tradition or not but I’ve noticed  “posters” with a picture of a person that died and these “signs” ask you to pray for him\her. This is creepy.

9. Roads. Roads here are mostly good. There used to be huge hole on the way to the university but after a month, maybe,the road was repaired but not perfectly.

10. It’s almost clean here. There's no "doggy stuff" on your way.

11. Horses. Sometimes you see horses on a road  ridden by  Romans. By the way, there are many romans around the area.

12. A large amount of European food and even the water from South Korea can easily be  found in shops here .

13. Usually, at 8 am there are no empty tables in cafes. Bulgarians like to have a cup of coffee chatting with colleagues on the way to work. Unusual, to see crowds of people sitting in a cafe at 8 AM!

14. Sirene. Bulgarians adore putting sirene (white salty cheese) everywhere. Very popular here are banitzas ( baked filo pastry with sirene).

To be continued…

Mountain, Extreme Way

Today two Ukrainians and me were hiking the mountain, where the Cross is. It was a long hard road out of hell. First part of the way  was the most difficult, because we climbed up and up, through rocks, stones, trees and animals' feces. But there were  good smells of needles, fresh air, no radiation, yay.

After 1 hour of climbing, we got to Cross, and there was fantastic and picturesque  view on Blago. We saw Main Building and our Skaptos from there... Then we met priest, and we had a small talk with him. Also, we asked him about shorter way to Blago, not through the forest....Soooooo, we decided to go "shorter" way...Oh, yeaaah.

 

It was a road, I even thought about hitchhiking :D  It was a reallllly exotic way.
Firstly, we met lots of goats there!!! Pictuuures! I felt in love with one of them....It was soo cute. Ahahah, they were laying on grass and were chewing grass ( all together )... They were soo cute.
Then we met a cute horse! And we took pictures with it too. It was really pretty, grey horse. We realized that instead of short way, we went long way, because we could see the whole Blago far away behind us.





And the most exotic moment, was gypsys' smth. like holiday, fest, music i dont know. Suddenly, we heard music, and it sounded like bagpipe or smth. And i could see a crowd of people, and some more people coming.... O__o.  We could see the buildings, that more looked like Jordania: white houses, heat, field...almost desert, strange music...uhmmm.



Being scared but still we decided to go almost to that mini-city...Houses were strange, strange part of a city...was it Bulgaria?  Then we saw real people, and i calmed down. Shop...photos...houses.

Then the houses more looked like a village, loud chicken and a really strange  duct, with falling water from it , sticked out of house. Later, was an awesome street, it looked like the US or GB !! Terraced houses, with small  flower gardens, fences, and there were trash-bin in front of each wicket!!! WOW. And the road there was better than some central roads in my country :\\\ .  This is how from" Jordanian" houses, we got to the US houses :DDD




And finally, we saw a 1.1 km  Kaufland sign...then Prego and HOME sweet home. It was quite short way you know, if we started from market-park side, and finished with in front of prego sign.

Two weeks, too impressed.

The orientation week  finished with a big cake and  picnic party. I was lucky to talk and to get acquainted with the President of the  University and his Wife, who also gave me a very useful advice. It was so nice of her. Surprisingly, I didn't recognize them at the first glance but i was pleased and surprised, when  discovered I was talking toTHEM! My American scarf attracts people.

The 2nd week was good. I became a coffee-addict...literally. I will drop off if I don't drink a large espresso without sugar. My typical break-snacks are coffee and kit-kat...too American. Thanks to AUBG we have a really good coffee-machine with a nice coffee, which makes coffee not only instant but also natural. As I wrote before, we have really fun lessons, which are just more American.

I went to acquapark, where water was quite cold. I go to the gym almost every day.  Such a pleasure finally to be able to exercise. I've been pretty busy these days, homework, tests, events, food......food....and food.

Here are some specials, events and impressions of mine:

• Floor party !! Suddenly, we had  ice-cream floor party, where we had looots of ice-cream ( of any kind) cola, juice and cookies. GOSH I was at the gym that day and ice-cream party made it special to me. Furthermore, I met a Ukrainian there.YES.So we spent 3 hours chatting. Finally found a Ukrainian soul out here.
• A door access broke down! The whole night with the beeeping sounds. This is Skapto life
• I attended the lecture which was about elitism-populism because I love history. I was curious about the way, the lecture was taught and given. After the lecture finished  a small-food-party occured ...again food but  nice cookies, blue cheese, which I've never tried before) and other appetizers  made it special.  I got acquainted with the Professor of History and we discussed the difference between Slavic languages and their history.  I really like Professors' attitude here because you can easily  come to any of them for an advice, asking a question or presenting an idea. They usually welcome to hear and to talk to students. There is no wall or upNdown feeling.
• Also, I signed up for a Cooking club. On wednesday we had a meeting  hence we will prepare some food  for its club's birthday.  I couldn't decide which process  I wanted to participate in as far as  there were lots of options but my choice was cooking brownies. What's interesting that I'm in one group with a Professor. Unusual to see your teachers in my case professors being involved in the same projects along with students. Hence on Monday we'll be cooking brownies in the professors' home. The fact we'll be there is very surprising to me as a student studying and living all my life in a different society.  Moreover, as far as I'm fond of GB suddenly I'm hearing a very strong British accent. Exactly, British. Unbelievable but we have a chef from Manchester! Still can't believe it. Where is Blagoevgrad and where is Manchester, where is American University and where is England. I've never thought that  I would ever meet a true british (especially not a student) in this university.
• We have sushi in the canteen. Isn't bad, huh?
• We had a Ukrainian Party where we sang Ukrainiansongs finishing with the Ukrainian Anthem. I was wearing the embroidery shirt. Hearing the Ukrainian language was so nice.
• We had a test which I passed! But I need a higher result so I will work on it.  By the way, tests are evaluated in percents ( the passing score\percent is 64).
• Today was a nice running across the city because a shop sign stated visa electron cards are accepted there. So I wanted to buy a sim-card and already signed up to get it when it figures out they don't accept paying by cards. It was a Sunday evening banks were closed (to exchange the currency) the sale assistant spoke neither English nor Russian  so he stared  at me without a piece of understanding what I was saying. So I was trying to explain everything in BulgarianoRussian.
• I took part in the community service because I've always dreamed about being a volunteer and helping others. Actually the territory was clean enough so in vain did we volunteer.

Also, I love doing my homework sitting on grass which doesn't appear here as smth. bad or awkward. The last time I was sitting on grass was in my hometown when suddenly someone started taking photos of my friend and me, while we were eating  ice-cream.

Anyway, living here is fun but hard. You can observe a plenty of students in lobbies studying. But it's impossible to study here because every day at the same time at least 3 events occure and almost every of them accompanied by food. America.

This is too pretty to be able to concentrate on  homework

   

To be continued...

1-2nd Days, first lessons, I’m an ELI student, impressions

Monday 8:30 AM !! YES, so early!  We had a meeting in AUBG with our future teachers. And guess what again? I just felt  and guessed, who will be my teacher. Have no idea how, but I just looked at her and thought, that “ Yes, she might be my teacher”. And it happened. I wasn’t impressed that much, but it was a little unusual. As I  already have my lessons, I feel as I must write everything without mistakes…oh-oh.

Soooooo, my impressions.  I love green color. )))) Okay, the lessons here  are COMPLETELY different from those I had in my school.  The same situation is with language courses.

• ·         We don’t feel here (finally) pessimistic energy from teachers ( Well of course not everyone were so pessimistic in my school, but sometimes it happened. For example ( we don’t know anything, shouting at the whole class, if you want to express your opinion it means you are bad and you are arguing with a teacher, you’re shaking because you’re scared to be asked by a teacher or to receive a bad mark etc…But again not everyone and everything was so bad)  So, back to ELI, we have a relaxing atmosphere in a classroom. The lesson is fun, interesting but at the same time full of important and necessary information. We learn everything in a completely different way. Like: associations method( that really works), nobody shouts at the whole class… Well teachers just love what they do! And when they do love their job, you really feel like a human, like a happy human.  We receive positive energy here.
• ·         New classrooms, air-conditioner…BUT we don’t have a window in classroom, I’ve just noticed it ( buuut it doesn’t distract your attention from lesson, that’s plus).
• ·         Different countries , I already have students from India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Bulgaria in my classroom. But believe me there are much more nationalities here. There are students from Belgium, Tanzania, and my rockfriend from Macedonia.
• ·         We have long lessons, but frankly speaking, they are really fast. We have 30mins break and 1:30 hour lessons.
• ·         We have good teachers, with real accents!!! There are two of them who lead my lessons. What is really  really really amazing, that our Bulgarian teacher has a real American accent….Well if I didn’t know, that she’s from BG, I would think she’s  an American. And that’s great!!! Because we listen to  a real  American, and  good English. Also we have a teacher from the US, and yes, he has an American accent too. :D
• ·         Different way of giving an information to students and different way of teaching… English tenses, my gosh, believe me  it’s  completely COMPLETELY different than what we have in Ukraine. None of my teachers has never explained this topic in such easy way. It’s really different. And in reality it’s much easier than we thought. Now thanks to lessons, all English tenses are in a proper list in my head. You just think” What kind of action is it” And yay, you use the right tense. All clue words ( like if we see “always, usually” in a sentence it means we must use only Pr.Simple and that’s all, NO it doesn’t work! It depends if it’s a single or repeated action, if we have specify time or not, etc, etc, etc…). The way we learn here, is much better and more understandable. Love it!
• ·         We’ve already written 2 essays, we have homework every day, and we learn vocabulary…not just simple words and their translation BUT we always do a collocation using this word, synonyms, antonyms…And it also impressed me. But again, it’s amazing and helpful, because now, you know not just a word, but you can explain its meaning, and you can say lots of synonyms to this word.  
• ·         OH AND YEAH, WE HAVE A COFFEE AND A SNACK MACHINE IN OUR CENTRE!!!! Yeeeeeeeees 

In conclusion, my general impression is  great, and I really enjoy the lessons. I feel relaxed, happy and smart here.  Moreover, Boryana and Dave  know what they do and they also love what they do, anyway, they have soo cute and sweet story of their marriage, that even inspired me….too sweet.

Okay, that’s all for today, future journalist needs a rest.

Romania-Bridge-Bulgaria-Twins reunion-Sofia-Starbucks!

This year I was lucky, cuz. I’ve had quite good neighbors in a train-room, than last year. I’ve practiced a bit of Bulgarian , and relaxed for 2 days. I really liked a train station in Bucharest, Romania, that time we’ve had 40 min of break, so I decided to come out of train and breathe  a real Romanian air.  Well, my impression ( of what ive seen at least) of Romania, is that this is  a country of differences.  It has an awesome train station, and even double-decker trains!!! Yes, ive never seen them. BUT at  the same time you can see really old, broken seats, walls, old buildings. A really nice mix. People are really different you can see poor people, local citizens, and really European style people the same time. Also, there was a strange runner at 12am on a bridge 

AND finally I came back to Bulgaria for 3^rd time already!!! And I was really happy about my coming because guess what? My Bulgarian sister-twin-best friend has met me !! This is sooo sweet that I want to cry even now. Twins   have too much in common, like she came with Katelyn (cuz volunteers were allowed to bring their students) and then I became Katelyn Junior. We both have tooooo much stories to tell about, and yep we’re left-handed…so im really grateful that I met Pavlena.  But let’s stop the crying sweet story, and just move on :D

Just after I’ve arrived, I screamed “ Starbucks” OMG!!! And I did it!!! AAAAAHHH…. We went to Starbucks, I took Frappuccino-mocca-crispy with cookies and then Americano.  Ive felt American, like, you know, coffee cup in your hands, American style ahahh, nice…).  Then we hanged around a city, and oh my gosh, I tried Bulgarian subway, there is even subway there in Sofia! :D It’s nice, it’s new, I really liked the idea of historical posters ( mini-museums) in subway, but ahah, my first words were “ OMG it looks like public toilet” Well, don’t take it really close, because what I’ve seen next!! Impressed me,  super-new –European carriages which I didnt expect to see. Then I’ve visited Russian shop, that had Ukrainian salo , but didn’t have Ukrainian sweets and ice-cream.  ALSO, I tried Bulgarian tram, wohhoo! Then there was a strange guy-actor-chaplin, who wanted to take a pic with me. And the best part of Sofia, was a completely brilliant present from my sis – frame with photos of us ^_^  and sweet. Cute, honest, nice words on its back. Now this present is on my desk in dorms : )   Sofia was great, but I’ve had a bus at 5 pm.

On a way to Blago there was huge thunderstorm! So, surely after I arrived to Avtogara, I decided to take a taxi, and to go right to Dorms. Well nothing really changed completely, but I have ants in my room. Just imagine, nice morning, coffee,  and there are crowds of ants in your bread,  good. But, hopefully, they fixed it, because I wrote in a book of damages about this problem, and actually there are still ants in my room but not so much…( they still hope that I’ll leave bread for them in  a shelf) .

Let’s move on, this year I live in a Resident Assistant room…woohhoo! On the 2^nd floor. My neighbors are from Russia and Moldova…so actually we have a Russian-speaking community in my room. :D  Unsleeping, insomnia, homework, starving are almost my everyday “friends”.  And yes, I might be on BgTV, because at time when I was signing the papers, the television began to shoot us. Awwww.  The first day was okay.

Visa-Jumping in the Embassy

This week was, perhaps, the most nervous I’ve ever had.  Right after I came from camp GLOW, I applied for a Bulgarian “D” visa, which is a really long and terrible process.   I’ve booked train tickets on 22^nd of August, and had to arrive on 24^th. ( right on Independency Day of Ukraine). For a week I was calling to Embassy with a hope that I got my visa, but every time  I got the answer that my visa is on agreement process. The worst words to hear really. Sooo, time flies, time comes,  a date of departure is closer and closer and I still don’t have visa.

21th no visa. I asked them if there were a possibility of receiving it on next day, but as they explained; I could get it only if Bulgaria accepts my application between 9-10am, then maybe I can get it. But well I was ready to sleep over at the Embassy, begging for visa, because acc I’ve had 2 options either I return my train tickets and maybe come late, ( and just not really cool when everything messed up and you need to start everything from the beginning) or I come in the morning ( because I had to take translated docs )and my parents will bring me my luggage, that ive packed, again having no idea what to expect.   This awkward feeling, you know, when you are packing clothes, having no idea of what will be the next day, of this visa, of nothing at all!

Well, it’s better to call everything as “ A long hard road out of hell”. Earlier, before applying I just joked that “I’ll receive my visa just on a day of my departure” And actually, I don’t know what happened, but it was a Miracle, a real Miracle!!! At 11 am I was already at the Embassy, I waited for a long, again I met an awesome Bulgarian guardian : ) , waited, and I was informed that I’ve already got my visa. I was too shocked, I jumped and screamed just right there in a centre of the Embassy made other laughing. I couldn’t believe, I thanked to everyone there, hysteria!

Then I called to parents, and yes I go…I go to Bulgaria. 

Heeey heeeyyy G.L.O.W. !

General super-impressions and information

July has gone far far far away,  so here is my report. As you might know this month was really amazing: full of useful information, experience, Americans, friends and just fun! So,  in 5 days after a  festival I've attended a really awesome and inspirational camp G.L.O.W. ( Girls Leading Our World) that's organized by Peace Corps Volunteers from the US, and almost free for campers, because lots of  good people donate their money into this project. The main idea of this camp is  to show us the main world's problems and to teach us tolerance, leadership and teamwork as well. We talked about gender discrimination, human trafficking which statistic is really impressive!!! ( 1% of women escape from slavery! just imagine that!!!), domestic violence ( the main rule of its is do not , do not, do not stay with a person who forces you to do smth. against your will, do not stay with this person!), HIV\AIDS and many many more interesting and useful topics.  We've had guest speakers everyday who talked to us, we've had like 3-4 lessons each day, with small breaks ( when we've had snacks wooohhooo!!! :33 mostly it was coffee with some cookie or biscuit and ice-cream ). 

It was an English camp! It was  a really fun camp! It was an amazing camp! 

Only what i can say now are:

WOW, I want to share these topics and ideas with others

AWESOME now i will and i'm able to help people. 

YES i'm strong enough and i'll achieve everything

STOP  discrimination, putting tags on people, gender violence.

And randomly we have WAYS, and really! WAYS of help, of work, of living, of our decisions!

Everything depends on us and on the WAYS of our decision or behavior in one or other situation. 

Talking about ways of escape there are two emergency numbers ( for Ukrainians) that are free, you just call there in a case of slavery, or if you need any help. These numbers are FREE!

386- is a number where you can get an advice if you have some troubles in your family, or with your friends, or you need an advice of  a professional lawyer , or psychological help.

527-   is an International Organization for Migration in Ukraine, you should call there if  you decided to go abroad, or some " work-company" offered you a job and you want to work there. Calling to this number you can check that your work-place-company really exist! And that everything is official, they'll give emergency numbers of Embassy in a country where you go etc. 

Just PLEASE do not be lazy to check any place where you go!!! Calling to one of these numbers you'll spend about 10 minutes, but  then maybe you'll save your life! 

Despite lessons, we also have had lots lots of fun! And yes we've had a campfire! with smores!! It was sooo awesome cuz. it was with American marshmallows! In the morning we could attend different morning activities like parkour!, aerobic, pilates, dances, yoga ahhh lots of ! Also there were different team-building activities, and my favorite big-roll hug :), and yeees water-balloons fighting, photo hunting contest....aww lots of fun.

G.L.O.W. is my 2nd FAMILY! 

The best part  of a camp were energizers! Cuz. yyees we were exhausted especially on the morning meetings, AND do not let us sleeping, guess what? aha, we've had super energizers...Crazy  stuff really!
My favorite was 60's party from a 60's movie ....chaotic, fun thing!

Also I liked the activity when we've made ribbons for HIV-kids, it was really my dream to help at least a little bit them!

Acivities time!

Leadership lesson!

Energizer time!

And a Family time!

I'm really impressed of camp and so happy that i've had an opportunity to go there!
As I know this camp  should be next year too!  And any of you can attend it!
When there'll be an information of when, how, where, applications. Be sure,  i'll let you know!

And now you can attend camp-groups in VK and FB where all information will be too and where you can ask questions if you have them!
http://vk.com/club45798489
https://www.facebook.com/groups/364164293679015/

If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask me!

And to sum up all my awesome impressions, here is a video, which was created by our awesome volunteers,  of our camp G.L.O.W. ( or just how i've spent these fantastic 5 days)

Enjoy

I love love love love every detail of camp!  It was just CAMPAMAZING! :)

P.S. and yes i've already applied for Bulgarian "D" visa and went to a Bulgarian Embassy, so they promised that i'll receive my visa on time! almost 2 weeks till the new life! Excited!

June,yay

  Okay, this June was quite ...difficult, aha :3
So, after prom, i've passed and have written huge 3 tests in Ukraine...Well, acc seniors pass these tests to apply for Universities in Ukraine, but i've passed them just in any case..Cuz. noone knows what will be next tho...
 To begin with, that's tests are ridiculous, i mean my results :DD

Cuz. i have 192 out of  200 on English test, 13 out of 14 on essay , yay... And my results on English are much Higher than Ukrainian... Hillarious English is better than Ukrainian, uhm -__-

The rest of days i was preparing for the 3rd exam on Ukrainian history...aaaa... I was learnin' to this subject for 2 weeks, for 14 day and nights ...I didn't sleep AT ALL, i swear that i've learnt  history, it was difficult, to learn everything without tutors etc...But i like my results acc..2 weeks, the material from 7-11 form, from 1 mln years b.c. till nowadays, pretty good huh ?
 So, no tutors, no courses, and  i have 177.5 on history out of 200.
BUT nothing is impossible, i did it, and im happy with what i have in the end :33

Aftter all tests, i;ve finished with preparing the rest of documents for the AUBG. As usually, i've had some problems on my way ( Something Always goes wrong whenim donig smth. important, like applying for a visa or gathering documents) ...So, this time, i needed to translate 3 docs into Bulgarian, here in Ukraine, uhm...Aha, after 2 days i got translated docs, AND i've noticed a mistake in Bulgarian :DD, yes AT the first time they've written my surname in English wrongly, so i had to return them...after couple of mins everything was okay...
Later, yes Bye Bye, See you, 200 metres...Oh .....gosh.. Another mistake xDD No, its ridiculous :DD
This time they've typed the same subject twice ..awww...
So, ive returned again and yayy...they've solved this problem too...
Ugh...

And yes, another good news , that I've FINALLY got my Adult International Passport :33 Difficult long process, but i have it ...Cuz. yes im 17 y.o. but i had to receive an adult passport ( yes more papers etc)but its possible... What's also amazing..that i LOVE my photo in my international passport even more than in Ukrainian :33 Its really good.

So, at the end of June i have gathered all documents and i've sent them to blagoevgrad :3 But i need to wait for about 2 weeks but i trully HOPE that it'll tak less time, to receive some paper from the Bulgarian minnistry of Education, cuz. without it i won't have an opportunity to apply for a visa.

Right now, my docs are on their way to BG..And im waiting to get the rest of docs from the AUBG..So i could start on visa process. So, im free finally, i can relax for couples days after super-learning history...relaaax
And im bored ! Have nothing to do :\\ But soon i will..Acc, i've skyped with my  greek friend..Pos se lene!
 ( what's ur name ) Adikadoptrismos ( the best word ever ...reflection) sounds better than Ja su ti kanis (hey, how are you ) xDD That's what greek said :DD
Also, ive talked to my mustache-London friend dude, and HOPE that i'll chat with my Bulgaria left-handed sister and with my russkaya kasha-zontik soon :33

Also, im looking forwars TO SEE HURTS HURTS YES HURTS!!!!
SO, THEY ARE COMING TO UKRAINE IN JULY YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
 SURE I WILL GO  in Dnipropetrovsk, whatever I HAVE TO see them before im going away.
I've already booked the ticket for the concert, so hope to receive it this week...But what to put on? O_O
Uhm... anyway ...

Also in July im going to the 5 days camp in Cherkassy region...YES this is an American camp, organized by my favorite Peace Corps Volunteers here, it's not expensive and almost free... I forgot if i told about it, but okay, to go to this camp i had to fill the applying form with questions like ( why do you want to this camp, what skill do you have or smth. about leadrship) ..So, im sure there were a lot of willers from whole Ukraine .But i was accepted. Hahah, have filled the form for 1 day before the deadline, Yes it's me :3

So, more info about my trip to HURTS *_* and camp ( cuz i'll have like 5 days of rest between concert trip and camp) will be later

And just a year ago, my super camp experience had just started *_* I miss campers still :\
Hope this year will be also amazing, rock this camp campers !
Mentally i'm with you! Cheer up, dudes !

Wish everybody a good July, and hope everyone will be study where they dream to...
Nothing is impossible.
Peace.

Prom

  It's really difficult to find all words, to express myself, to calm down...cuz. that's all...

Im like in depression all day today... but anyway, it's just difficult...to leave school

So, now im officially finished school, i'm nit a pupil anymore...

And how was my prom....

Early in the morning we had to go to school to sign some papers, so school could gave us our diploma. 

Going to school i've met my teacher, so we had some talk, and i was telling that ...omg no school, i'll be 30 soon  :DD But it was quite cute you know," where r u going pretty?", -"um, to school, to sign, the paper :D" 

Then like after 3,5 hours my hair-do was made. I've even had a real rose in my hair :33

SOOO Prom 

I was alone in a yellow bright  dress :DD mostly there were pink  dresses...

Firsly, we've had an official part, when we were receiving our diploma, and we were giving a concert.

So, the principal congratulated us....it was really honest ! And form by form, one by one, we got the diploma... i was smiling every moment being on stage  :DD

omg my turn....my name was said ....okay....so...yes...i got my high school diploma!!! ( the principal said "Diana, u look like a greek goddess" ) ^.^

I shaked her hand, was ready to turn back, as vice principal (teacher of Chemistry:3)said in microphone " And also Diana is awarded Diploma for Outstanding Achievements in learning Art and Culture" ) I was like WHAT O_O Which diploma? ? OMG Art and Culture :33 omg i didn't expect to get smth like this AT ALL... .AWWW love my Arts teacher <3

The cutest moment ever

Then seniors have prepared concert...I've performed twice, ( acc me as others had some words that we've said......mine words were special, cuz. i really liked them , and was telling from my heart )

And our class, have sung a song, that our classmate has written on her own, it was dedicated to our Class Teacher....it was so honest, and cute... " We are thankful to you, we understand that it was not soo easy, Thank you, thank you, we're thankful to you" . Even our teacher of ukrainian has cried...how cute it was..:) Because we really love our class teacher, and we're thankful to her.




After an official part, we've celebrated our prom in a cafe........Food...DISCO 0_0 omg it's deserved to study 11 years, but UNBELIEVABLE

We were dancing with our teachers ....mostly....with...teacher of History...YES HISTORY...omg ...she was amazing in it...really good....omg....Every 5 mins i was tired...!! But SHE was more active than me O__O No, i swear, i was too tired....so i couldn't dancing, but she still has had soo much energy....Where she gets from all energy ?? O__O Awesome 

After a while  we were dancing with other teachers too ll together...principal, ukrainian and history teachers, nd chemistry teacher ( i was dancing near her :33...so she asked where is the rest of my dress cuz. it was short (so, it was double, long and short -for disco)) 

Can u just imagine that? :D DANCING!!! But i've even pine-applethough :,D

Then in some skit in cafe, i was playin' a tree :DD And i dragged a paper ...what my fate is saying....and  it was RING on the image :DD ring !! 

Acc we've had lots of fun there :DD  Dancing until 4.30 am !! :D 

At 5 am we've gone to the local some kind of park...and we've let free to our balloons makinga wish :,) 

Ah....5 am we were pretty tired tho :333 

But still yaaaay 

Bye bye school, 

Hello new part of life ,

It's unusual...but i've finished school! Im not pupil anymore...my heart and smile will be in school forever

But i'll come back..... 

To be continued <3

School is out forever :,(

Yes, this day has come....the day when i should say goodbye to my school, to the happiness that my teachers gave me, to the copybooks and tests, and speeches on history.
It's too difficult to me to forget all my favorite teachers, and u know...this situation and these emotions are the same when i've left camp...strong emotions, and tears on nights...
So, how was it....

We are the luckiest ever....because it was raining all night before, and in the middle of lineyka- (that's when all pupils are standing form by form making a square). It was an awesome moment when suddenly it began to rain ( bur acc as far as i remember it wasn't raining for 5-6 yrs on the last bell, so we're kind of special in this sense). So , i bet everyone will remember our last bell :DD

Next, FIRST TIME in our school, we've let go to pigeons...And i bet it was unforgettably too.
Also, in Ukraine we have a tradition when all alumni wear "soviet union" school uniforms ( really, in soviet union everyone was wearing to these unifroms!!). My pigeon was eager to fly, but i've tried to calm it ...

Well, then we let go to our balloons, mine has luckily flew away ^^ Acc i've also had yellow balloon and yellow flowers :,D
Then, awww, we've presented flowers to our teacher, and we've given them an invitation to our prom..Of course i was giving an invitation to my Art teacher :33 Anndd....i've completely forgotten to give her a copybook as a gift ( cuz. gifts were on the other side, plus i was panicking, crying etc.)....
But at the end i've come to her and i've almost cried saying sorry cuz. i've just forgotten, omg i was almost crying...then Art teacher hugged me, and didn't let me go..OMG she's so kind and cute....ahah she was joking cuz. i was like - kill me please; - of course i'll do....)) ^^ she's so cute....love her.

ALSO we've exchanged gifts with kids from 1st form...Well it was awkward too...everyone was running, and i couldn't find a kid to give my present to...I was like....AAAA...was standing in the middle of square disappointed, as suddenly i've seen one small boy, who  also was standing in the middle disapointed...Nobody around...AWWW THE CUTEST MOMENT EVER
Anyway i'm happy that i've found  kid to give my present to ^^




This day was full of tears, but i promised to come back on winter from Bulgaria and visit my teachers...I'll do it...I PROMISE....
So, also my dreams came true....because i've taken photos with my teacher of chemistry....chemiiistryyy ^^
And with others my favorite teachers too...
You know, yes it's hard to leave but it was worth it to hear THESE WARM,SINCERE WORDS from teachers

I've dreamt to hear them for a long time...and this day i was honestly talking with my teacher and i've told them how i was happy to see them in school, how they've made me smile all the time...
ALL my teachers hugged me with a such huge sincere...with smile on their faces...I won't forget them at all, i can't do that.

Anyway my chemistry teacher promised to skype with me, she promised!!! :D
What's strange,  it seems that earlier teacher were not soo close to alumni...idk...but ths day they were REALLY crying!!! they were crying that we leave school...omg...

I really admire all me favorite and sincere teachers...I will say that i've heard a lot of warm words from  them..and i'm happy that i've had such sincere talks with them!
By the way, i was wearing bow that i've worn in 1st grade!!!


Well second part was when we've spent like 2 hours in our local attraction park....where i've tried mini American slights....I WON'T GO THERE AGAIN... It was sooo scary-strange, so fast ...omg ...my first words when i've sit on slight were "I love chemistry" :DD

And the last part,  we've spent the rest of day at some kind of camp, with lake and grass ...We've had lots of fun there different teeterboards and FOOD....We also were sailing the boat...and acc were having fun there...
And yeah...we've had the most epic end of everything, when the driver of our bus began to fight with smn's parent...Everything was okay....But...Well...Okay )

 AND now exam week....yaaayyy

P.S. sorry for mistakes...cuz. i''m too exhausted

Der Abschluss

The last German lesson has ended. So, now i have B2 level on German ^^
Last 2 weeks we've had exams, so actually ( because i haven't had much time to learn it very hard) i got perhaps  (from 5) two 4+ and one 4 (on writing, yeah grammar :\) And guess what, well we've had 44 topics to prepare for, cuz. each of them will be on exam, but at home i've trained only one ( it was abt the best school memory etc.) ....And randomly i've picked the topic, i've prepared xDD Yaayyy
Okaym at home, i've recognized that my German speaking skills are terrible...cuz. it's much harder for to speak german, maybe not enough vocabulary....anyway i even didn't watch movies in german, so actually i didn't have any practice :\\
On exam, we've had on person, who wasn't our teacher at all, so everything was independently cuz. she put us marks....

And yeeeahh my turn...
Ahaha...smile in my face yaayy
So, i was telling about the teacher's day, when i was a vice principal...how i've drunk coffee in teachers room, and how i've tought one lesson in the 1st form^^ I've used lots of cute words....and smiiille ^^

I was talking, as usual, very very long...But with happiness and smile.
And actually i was shocked because I was talking!!

So, tadaaam...i've got my first 5 , on skill that i didn't expect to receive this mark at all....
Yaaayyy....B2 level
here we gooo

Letter from the United Kingdom :,D

OMG OMG OMG OMG JUST OH MY GOSH
 AAA... I can't believe it...
Today I have finally received a letter from ENGLAND, from my pen-pail super-mustache-English friend Erin :,DD
I'm soo happy , gosh all these stuff are awesome...!
I've felt myself a real English :,DD
Okay, let's start from the beginning
I was learning history, I was bored as suddenly , I was notified that YES a small parcel post, is over here... I was too shocked.
Btw. love my, cuz.  post Erin has sent the letter on 14th of March, but it came here on 20th of April well okay. BUT WHERE WAS MY LETTER ALL THESE 20 DAYS ?? cuz. i've receieved a notification on 10th of May.
I have an idea, perhaps all the post workers were coming to watch at my super- royal- letter :333
Cuz, just imagine, I bet my city hasn't seen a real letter from England :,DD

Sooo, as fast as i could i got to the post, and yyaay i got it :,DDD :,DDD
AAAA, i wanted to open the letter, but i have had to wait a little, to take a pic of it. :,DD
I was like awww that's an English letter...
Firstly I was shocked cuz. it's quite heavy and secondly it has a real English super-royal mark, with a Queen on it. :,D ITS SO COOL. :,D

So, finally i got home, aaaand the moment of truth ...i've opened it :DD
AAAAwww THANK U ERIN ! <3
 I took the first envelope with postcard, and only after a while i've recalled to my memory that YAY i've had a birthday :,DD Cuz. it was a super- birthday card :33 And it has a train ticket inside :,D ( it's so expensive to go by train :\ )  BUT i also have a real aaa REAL postcard with an english bus...( and taxi O.O - really strange taxi...it seems as it has run  away from 70s :D )  But it's the best birthday card i've ever had for me :,DD SO, happy ...lots of happiness . AND ITS AN ENGLISH WRITING THERE ahah :DD

Also there is a real letter from ENGLISH! from almost London-citizen :,D There are 2 pages of it.... And it really looks that, it's really English, because of handwriting and words that Miss Erin has used xDD AWESOME LETTER.

Oh, and by the way, i've spent 20 min just sniffing to all leaflets ( yay, new word leaflets oooo:,D). Because everything smells ENGLISH :O

What else I love is that inside these advertisment stuff, there is an advertisment of Wicked the Musical, and Hard rock cafe, omg Erin idk how, but u have guessed all the stuff that i love. Cuz. Wicked ....That's my dream, i want to see it once !! :3 

Also, there are like 2 maps, that i think is really useful for me, soo i hope i won't get lost in London :D 

Thames :D river, river or Thames clippers xDD Woohhooooo !!! 

Omg there are much more stuff, and i love all of them ...I'll keep sniffing to them xDDD 

Thank you Erin :** <3 

April

The hardest and perhaps the most flourished month has finished. Well, nothing super-fantastic hasn't happened. I'm full of studying, last school year though :,D I dunno if mentioned it, so i've done a project for some competition about extincted animals etc. I was full with this projecr, cuz. i was eager to do it as best as it possible. And i hope, i did. :,3 Hah, i was so nervous showing it to my teachers, but they like it very much, yyaay. My chemistry teacher even pointed out that, i have an eye on projects, cuz. i can choose the proper music for video, catch attention, make it creative and interesting. I was so pleased to haer that from them, so i've even received two highest marks on chemistry :,333 omg, chemistry, yyaay.

I'm really impressed of my marks, because they are brilliant *.* That's a pity that i don't apply in ukrainian university, so acctually my marks don't play such a big role, but well...

I was preparing, and still preparing reports on history...I suppose, it's endless. :,D But i like to make them, but it's exhausting sometime. Also, my history teacher pointed out that i can catch an attention of the audience, so she asked if i have thought about applying on journalistic faculty. POINT. :,D I do....apply there.

School is almost finished, there are 6 off days, because of some um national holidays. Just imagine spent hald of your life in school *.* woof 11 years. My letter from England is still flying somewhere *.* have no idea when i will finally or not receive it.

Ahhah...what's interesting that signs are following me xDD
Well, everything has happened in one day, i bought in school cornflakes, as it turned out they were made by an American Recipe ( America)
Next....spontaneously i went to the some office ...paper on door stating (permanent residence in Bulgaria)
( Bulgaria)
My mom bought chiffon for my dress,...inscription on cloth stating smth. like royal London whatever
( London)
Ummm...

Nothing special has happened on April...okay...here are some photos..just like that ...i'll name it Ukrainian Spring, whatever.