LIFE is GREAT!

2009-03-03T04:24:00.000-08:00

I'm such a blogger!!! :) Yes, as usual, I start my message - it's been a long time... To tell the truth - I started this blog when I was going to Ghana. so, I would reply to everybody all the question by one post :) I wanted to share and that time was full of new emotions that I couldn't keep much inside. But now, I'm shocked from time to time - when some people who are friends of my friends... tell me that they used to read my blog, it was very unexpected but nice! :0)

There were some changes in my life, but not super much. Right now I'm in Ukraine since November, a month ago started to match myself(looking for internship abroad :)), so, in a process now...

I don't like to upload all the pics I have, but the ones I upload - are all on facebook. Last album is about things I've made with my hands. :0)

If I miss Ghana and Egypt?... I do, but much more I miss people than countries by itself, would love to go to Ghana during next few years. And also now I dream about Asia - I really want to go to the islands there, they are som beautiful, to live in a small house on the water,... oh...

I'm finally at home, and some people from Ghana think that now I'm getting kilos, but it's not! I'm now less than I was in Ghana :S I'm 170 cm and have 50 kilos, that is too much! I don't want to be like a scary model :)) Actually, I feel ok, healthy and light enough to fly.:))

What I miss in Egypt as well - that is my super active self improvement life :) - 2 times a week language courses, 3-4 times a week few hours sport and, of course, studying cooking with my Kenyan and Korean friends! x

When will I write to this blog next? Don't know :) Some friends, thanks to them, told they they need me to write. But I usually write when I'm super full of emotions and there is nobody near to put them all on him/her/them. :) But tell me what is interesting for you in me, my life - I can try to write :))

Hugggs and all nicest emotions to everybody!!!! :0) xxxx

2008-06-23T14:56:00.000-07:00

:((( One of my dream is running away from me! 2 years of dreaming, 4 days left and it suddenly runs away.... but I'm running after it! I hope it will come true this week! I really-really want! All people around me are trying to help already, at least a bit, who can, at least with some random advice.... Trying!...

2008-04-30T13:19:00.000-07:00

Hey, people! You are super cool!

You made comments so fast on my blog that it
inspires to write more :).
Ol'kin! Thank you for the contact - I used to be in touch with her, need to go back:). Actually, she lives in my first Turkish city (were I had a CEED more than 4 years ago, wow,.. 4 years...).
Oxana!!!! Dyakuyu, sone4ko!!! Mabruk to you too for sure!! I wonder - I wonder who it is!! Next time I see you online I will bomb you with questions. :))
Aselka - thanks for the info too.

People, thank you for making my day! As today I was in a strange mood. For now waiting my Kenyan flatmate to come back from the trip with her Russian friend. And waiting for other updates from my Korean flatmate (whose Korean food I'm enjoying very much!!! Even though
she is not around, :) hehe).

Oh, I want something, I want something....

2008-04-29T06:31:00.000-07:00

On the Pyramid and in Alexandria

2008-04-29T05:43:00.000-07:00

Ohh! I think it's been a long time since I was here....

Something bumped into my head, decided to renew a bit. So, below I will just shortly write updates about me for last few months. :)

- I'm still working in Africa Regional Board, office is in Cairo, Egypt. Should be back in Ukraine in July.
- Since January I'm going to gym (mostly aerobics) and attending Turkish classes in Turkish Centre.
- In November I was in Ukraine and in December I was in Turkey in far east beautifull mountains part. That's were I got a marriage proposal. :) Yeah, who knew that my choice will be a Turkish guy - but life is full of surprises, and I'm very happy! :)))))
- In June I plan to go to the sea shore for around one week - here they have a beach for women only - so, I'm really looking forward to swim a lot and become chocolate. :)
- July-August I plan mostly to stay in Ukraine, maybe, travel a bit near and also receive driving licence.
- In September I plan to start working (AIESEC internship or anythig else) in Turkey. So, right now I'm realllllly looking for al opportunities and asking all people around who have connections in Turkey (or might have through other friends..). So, if you can help - please, do! As right now it's not the easiest thing.
- I will try to upload few pictures in the next post. Thank you a lot for interest in me and support!

2007-10-21T05:44:00.000-07:00

Hey, me again. I really forget about my blog all the time as it was not my habit for last few months. I'm doing quite well. Adapting more and more. Enjoying my new room. People, you don't know how much happiness the decoration of my own room brings me! :) My Kenyan work and home-mate is trying to make me use to the TV. For now I'm in for such things: number one "Grey's Anatomy", and, sometimes - "Desperate Housewifes".
We try to make our time more or less different, but for now we weren't in many places. One of the nice place we visited - is the place where The Nile meets Medittarenean Sea. I have some pics in facebook. Today I will go to the photo/music/... exhibition of one of Egyptian LCPs, it's called "The Manual of life" I saw some presentations - very impressive! Wanna see more today...
Also I found out that if you know the places - you can really buy extremely cheap stuff, so, I'm motivated. :) Yesterday even bought Blue piramides with yellow "ieroglifs", yeah... almost AIESEC brand colours. Actually, during my free time I try to forget about AIESEC completely.
I start to learn how to cook new things. My Kenyan and Spanish flatemates are really cool
in cooking!
Yeah, I'm not sure now, but there is some percentage that I may come to my real home (Kiev)
for a few weeks in November (not days off, just realocation for short time, working working...).:)

What about you? Friends! I'm completely out of all blogs,... maybe, because, I work with this machine all the time and want to rest from it when I have a free time... Or it is not good excuse...
Anyway... Hugs to my friends and smile for you from Sunny Cairo! :0)

2007-10-05T12:48:00.000-07:00

My life, my life is strange, I think so sometimes... I also know very well that almost all the time I choose the most difficult things for me. Why? To understand that I can or to really achieve something or just because I see that it is worth it... I know I'm very sensitive person, I know that I can also hurt people easily, strange combination as one of my friend says. But what I want people to know about me - I can bear everything but not disrespect & very obvious selfishness, if I see at least one thing that may push me that it is a kind of disrespect to others (and to me) - I just can't smile to that person, I do feel bad about it, but I can't, I try, but...
Again I chose to live somewhere far with some strange to me people, be far away from the people I love... again to use to strangers' habits, again be flexible, again keep a lot of emotions inside, again... Sometimes I hate myself for it, sometimes I feel it's more or less ok. But being away really makes me think more, and it often doesn't bring a lot of happiness.
Yeah, there are a lot of positive things in my life... Maybe, in a next post I will feel more like happiness sharing....
Am I lost? Do I think too much, am I tired? Am I selfish child?....
P.S. Don't mind me. Just have a nice day! :)

2007-10-03T01:52:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I really forgot about my blog, or, don't care so much about it. But I got several reminders. I want to tell you, that now most of my pictures are at my computer only and some of them are on Facebook, where I'm regular client. So, if you are there - let's join. If you are too insisting - I can update my blog from time to time. What do you think?

As some of you know, I'm in Egypt since 3 September as a Project Manager for Africa Growth Network in AIESEC.... Yeah one more year of "another" life....

To be continued....?

2007-05-28T10:49:00.001-07:00

That's how we were caring AIESEC in Ghana Vision 2008! :)

Bright Ganaian AIESEC Leaders on the Planning Conference! Aren't they cute? :)

2007-05-24T04:32:00.001-07:00

My Ukrainian Friend Polina came to travel and visit me in Ghana! It was very dynamic period! Sleeping small-small mostly in buses, buses stairs,.. Thank you, Polinka! :0) Here we are near one of the most beautiful castles - it was also used to keep slaves here, who were brought from far away, from ocean side.
We are eating pineapples almost evry day as it is one of the cheappest food here. But at last we saw how it grows! Quite extraordinary and bright!
Such a nice couple! So funny and cute! They were sitting near us, as we lived one day in National park. No limits for communication!
Small obibinies(chocolate African people) and me. They bought me a water to wash myself. Nice!

2007-05-24T04:28:00.000-07:00

22 May – the day was a little bit strange but quite active, what I like very much. Charles finally got his visa and now should be in the airport to go to Netherlands for several days meeting (Global Branding…). Now I’m happy as well as we ate nicely with Dalia and now I have the flowers near my monitor. In Ghana they don’t sell flowers for dates or birthdays, it is not considered as a present as here flowers are all around and not so valuable. It’s my first flowers for this year, and they are very nice and exotic! 8)

23 May – the day was nice as I talked to the person I value very much, found out some important info for me and now very close to the decision I need to make. I also found out that my friend is already married and waiting for a baby. She described it so simply and nicely – I was amazed! Beautiful! I wonder – at 23 what is more important – love or career? Or age never matters in such comparisons?

2007-05-21T06:40:00.001-07:00

That was a nice day somewhen month ago or so, we call it "Family Day". I'm Dalia's and Jorge's daughter. We spent that great Sunday together, driving around the city and eating in nice cafes.
This pic is near the ocean - cafe called -"Next door". Nice! :0) Thank you, my parents! :))

2007-05-21T06:36:00.000-07:00

20 May – this day, was a day of another my hidden talent. 8) As some of you know – I’m a daughter of electrician! So, today I had to transform files from one computer to another, but the connection to old computer was broken (even after repairing it once in Ukraine and once in Ghana). But I managed to find out what with what should be connected and did it, and was happy about it as it worked! Thank you, father!

Today I had a great opportunity to talk more than two hours with the person I love! :)

21 May – the day has just started, but it is starting amazingly! We have a HEAVY RAINING now! It is so cool! I love it! Especially when I’m sitting in a house with electricity, flowing taps and a cup of tea! Very nice! Actually – 2 last times of such rain I was out and it was a great fun as well! First – with Dalia and several more interns. Me and Dalia fall down into gutter (like an open pipes/canalizations on street sides) and when Dalia’s slippers stacked to the ground and she was crossing a wide road running with them in her hands and laughing hardly!+ many other things during one hour: peeing man showing the way to go; rats running away and Ela screaming on whole bus station,… It was fun!

2007-05-21T06:12:00.000-07:00

After talking with several cloth friends, who don’t live here in Ghana with me I understood, that they feel from me some “negative”. So, of course, I don’t want to make my friends feel not nice any more and I decided to have a “Book of Happiness” 8). Or whatever name for it but the main idea – every day I should write what positive/nice happened to me at this day.

This idea came to me on my Birthday, I think, so, let’s start from that day:

19 May – first in my life I was organizing (I mean, planning, buying all ingredients and cooking!) some dinner for 11 people. And that was very-very nice feeling while cooking and while seeing people happy because they eat nice (as they said) European food (especially interns hereJ). Then I had a cake-present with candles! I don’t really remember if I ever had candles in my Birthday cake before! So, I felt like a small happy girl!:) And cakes in Ghana are very rare, so, it was also a nice surprise for me! Special thanks to Dalia – who was helping me in cooking and cleaning and in everything…!

Of course, forgot to say – at this day I received some messages, letters and calls. But the calls from Ukraine were the most amazing! As all people who called are quite cloth to me and they were full of positive emotions and sincerity! Thank you!

2007-05-20T09:50:00.000-07:00

Since yesterday I decided to be only POSITIVE
in thinking! 8)
So, SMILE to me too! 8)))))))))))))))
I organized a dinner yesterday, feel happy about it!
As I did it for the first time like this and it was quite
good and people mentioned several times how they
liked the food!
NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!8))))

2007-04-04T14:58:00.000-07:00

Today, just wanted to share that I feel not nice 8), today like day off of life. Don't want anything now or later. But, hope, it will finish very soon,..

2007-03-23T10:07:00.000-07:00

What do I feel? What do I want? I’m not sure 8). My mood can really change very often I may feel down but in 2 minutes feel like I can do many things and that great future is waiting for me. I want not very much but quite enough things and at the same time, that’s what bring me sometimes disappointments or sadness, but – never mind – crying is easy and sometimes relaxing – but not all the time, moving and moving all the time…

Many people ask me how is Ghana, how is everything, what I feel, what has changed. I know for sure – that something changed, but didn’t think very much about it. I know for sure that I learnt something, if to think more – will find out it. But what I’m afraid of is that I will forget everything in a year or more after coming back to home. For example – when you are foreigner you have some challenges that are understood very much by other foreigners, but when you are back to home for some time – you stop having such challenges and becoming much less sensitive to foreigners’ problems/challenges.

After living with several foreigners, especially boys in the house I understood for sure – that it’s nice experience – but it’s enough and I always want to live in my own flat/house and can bear some other people (especially not friends) only for several days and better – not in my house. I also understood how much I like to decorate my own place/flat/house, how much I like to make any place my warm/comfortable home.

2007-03-12T12:33:00.000-07:00

One of my best friend, or the best one, came to vizit me in Ghana and also work for AIESEC in Ghana for a while. On this picture you can see how he enjoyed his staying, so, maybe, some of you will be also motivated to come 8). I'm working on one my very good friend Polina now 8). Hope to see her and somebody else here! Welcome!!!

2007-03-12T12:21:00.000-07:00

Well, well, well, … this letter I’m motivated to write after some things that I was watching and that I found out. It’s something not nice that is disappointing me and not motivating to stay in AIESEC. It is POLITICS in AIESEC! Yes, I’m really shocked, I started to notice it since around 2 years ago, maybe, not earlier as didn’t have an access to many things and was not so “high” that that anybody can blame me in something.
But, really, people, one of the reason I joined AIESEC – as there was promise – non politic, as I hated and still don’t like politic, as you never know the truth and people playing with other people lives as with a sh…t.
And now what I see in AIESEC all over the world makes my eyes huge, makes me feel fear for where we are going and makes me disappointed. Can you imagine – you are enjoying an exotic food and then – when you almost finish eating(while eating you say hundreds times how nice and delicious it is) you discover that it is made from sh…t?
During last two years I saw so much sh…t in AIESEC, thanks God, there were still many nice unique things that didn’t let AIESEC to die in my eyes at all. Yes, AIESEC is a school of life – but does it mean – that our life should be in a sh…t? No, definitely no, and I would really like to shout to the ears(such loud that they would hear!) of that “sh…ty people” to stop doing what they do and/ or spoil only their own life.
But the most I don’t understand and don’t want to understand people who do a lot of bad things behind your back, gossiping, destroying full organizations, lives just because of some stupid ideas, ambitions, sickness,… and then they are coming to you, smile to you, regretting and crying with you because of some problems (as we say in AIESEC - challenges) you have in life. How can they be so mean???? And, if somebody like this is reading now it – never come to me, please!!! Go and buy dolls and dolls house, build dolls city at your home/garden and play with them as much as you want and don’t disturb anybody!
And, another thing I was shocked – what kind of people we recruit to the organization – if somebody contacting me in MSN(with contacts of people I know or from AIESEC) and from the first questions asking me my age, wants me to send my picture,…and when I say that it’s not a club for singles and that I’m not looking for anybody and don’t want to answer such kind of not very smart questions - the person starts to send me all disgusting words and pictures he has, insulting me in the most terrible way,… and this is AIESECer(I know he is in our organization for sure )???? I hate…….
Of course, there are a lot to say positive about other AIESECers I met – I did it and doing and will be doing, but for sure – not today. 8)

11 March 2007, 11 p.m.

2007-03-01T07:02:00.000-08:00

Here are the kids on the shore who are collecting coco-nuts from the palms, eating, inviting us, selling to some other people, climbing to palms,... 8)
And also this amazing car that was done by German family who came here through Spain and all African countries on the way, this car has 9 tonnes, 500 litres of petrol, some protection from elephants,... this family is travelling with a dog 8). Nice "Zebra" car!

2007-03-01T06:43:00.000-08:00

On the way to the Ocean shore by motocircle we spend once night with our nice LC UCC in their friendly dormitory! And other two days our home was this blue thing 8)...

2007-03-01T06:33:00.000-08:00

We were the guests of one of the nicest Muslim area with beautiful Mosque and garden near it.

A Birthday party of our Lovely Land-Lord granddaughter. And her cake was so cute - like a Barbie Girl. 8)

2007-03-01T06:11:00.000-08:00

From the same conference a group of Crazy facilitators and Chair - YEAH8))! It was real fun to work with them! Huge mixture - half African-half European - Kenya-Denmark, Cote D'Ivore, Ghana, Lithuania-Ghana, Turkey, Nigeria, Ukraine-Ghana..
Our Pirates Team!8)))

2007-03-01T06:05:00.000-08:00

This is how our nice conference in Cape Coast, Ghana looked like. Danish-Kenyan emotional facilitator and a group of bright active aiesecers. Thank you, guys! It was nice time!

2007-01-12T09:54:00.000-08:00

My friends!!
I'm ALIVE!!! And everything is ok! Just now I looked through the date of my last message - November! I was shocked!

For now I have more work than usual that makes me happier. Soon we will have a National Leadership Conference - and I'm a conference manager for it, so, - interesting! 8)
Going out with foreigners, talking with local people on the street and with neighbours.
Tomorrow - going on market 8) - want to buy some new shooes and maybe, some other stuff.
Markets here are crazy!!!....
Anyway - hope, will get to this page very soon back and with photos 8).