Video - Speaking 4,5 languages

Hello, my amazing people!

Today I have a video for you. It's a sort of a language challenge I've seen on Youtube for some time now.

I'm just speaking the languages I can speak and explain to you how and why I've learned them.

1. Ukrainian - my mother tongue

2. Russian - my second language (or one of two first, because I'm bilingual)

3. English - obligatory in Ukrainian schools and highly addictive, haha

4. Italian - because it's impossible to live in Sicily without speaking Italian (unless you want to pay 15 euro for something that costs 1.50)

So if you are interested, click through and watch. And please, like and subscribe, if you enjoy my content. This way you will not miss new videos. 

Have a great day and see you around!

Christmas #2, New Year #2 and New Years resolutions

Merry Christmas, Orthodox and Greek Catholic people! Happy old New Year!

I was planning to make a few separate posts on all of those topics but then realised that I will not manage to do it for many reasons. So let's mix it a bit!

It took me a long time to understand what are my New Year's Resolutions, or should I rather say - New Year's Goals. But now I really want to put them in writing to have something to measure this year by later. Some of this goals you might have seen in my birthday post, but that's the plan.

Photo by Tarmo Tõnismann 

Lviv, Ukraine is 5th on Lonely Planet's Best in Europe list!

Lonely Planet website recently posted their Best in Europe list, suggesting the best cities to visit in 2016.

I personally agree with them completely - Lviv is a real treasure and one of the top Ukrainian must-sees! I've been there many times and I love it with all of my heart. I've never lived there, so my vision of it is probably overly romanticized, but it's a great weekend destination - beautiful, cozy, romantic. There you can eat the best food and drink the best coffee with the best cakes.

I've been to Lviv a number of times, and you can find some of my travel notes if you follow this link - LVIV.

Check out also Lonely Planet's article 48 hours in Lviv, they have nice suggestions on what to see/ where to go/what to eat. And I promise that next time when I will visit Lviv I will make an updated guide wit the new places and new routes!

2015 in pictures

Normally I have no patience to do posts like this, but this year I felt like doing it. This year was very difficult for me. I had a lot of disappointments, rejections and doubts, but, at the same time, I had a few really great accomplishments I’m really proud of. So yeah, difficult, but very important. I wish there was a way to grow and learn in a less painful way, but that’s just life, I guess.

Let’s go!

January

January on Sicily started with a wonderful snowstorm – first in more than 30 years. The days were quiet cold and sad – people from my project were leaving. I was happy I was staying, but we started this wonderful adventure all together, and saying goodbye is always hard for me.

On January 6^th (which is my Christmas Eve) I went on a day trip to Isola delle Femmine – a small town one hour away from Palermo – and made this photo, which became one of my favorites.