Warm Peace

Alex(my friend) telling me in Russian:

-Ask this German guy what they study at school about World War 2.

Me:

-Well…I noticed Chris is not excited about discussing this topic. Should I translate anyway?

Boys hesitated. They didn’t want to break incipient friendship with this charming German. Fritz(instead of Chris) as Pax called him.) Surprisingly, I wanted to know his answer more than even my Ukrainian dudes. What do THEY study in Germany?

Déjà vu or How I Came to My place

2 days of adaptative depression and then - back to AIESEC. I felt it would help me to feel life in this small town - comparing to everything I've seen during 2 months in China - and it really did. I came to LCM (meeting we have every Friday) and heard news about our projects. I also presented my experience of internship, but for me it was more exciting to hear how 28(!!! in our NOT TOURIST town) interns from all over the world spent THEIR time in OUR summer camps - real ones.
I smiled. In fact, it seemed all of them had quite challenging time. I heard there was one intern left for some time in Lugansk from Germany and he needs "buddy".
I didn't think twice: I said I want to be his buddy. In fact, I regreted about this decision - it means I will have to miss some of my classes during first 2 weeks, but I really wanted to help at least the last intern here, haha. I became SO sensitive to such things.)
I met him at the railway station when our new President in AIESEC - and my good friend and ex-leader of the project I took part - Rita was seeing off Egyptian intern and German's friend. Basically, the intern was complaining about the project and asking Rita whether he should say all this stuff to his Local Committee or leave here, because he didn't want Rita personally to have problem. From this moment I saw ME in this guy from Egypt and I wanted to talk to him. I managed to make a new friend in 30 minutes (time left before the train left) - and he spoke so positively in the end!=)
But since that - Chris, 22 years old German student - is in my life. Literally, we've already spent good amount of time and for almost 2 weeks - we'll spend some more.) He is cool:

And really open-minded and flexible. He is so communicative that he even managed to make my friends girls actually TALK in Enlgish. Before that they were afraid to speak fluently with foreigners (I offered them to practice English with our 2 Indonesian interns in the past), and afraid to talk to Christof too. But he is too charming, too easy-going and too talkative. Now, most of my friends - his friends too.)

About Mari

I've written this post on 1st of July, after my first week in China. But for some reason I want to translate it and put it from my official whereabouts in LiveJournal (My Home in Russian) so I could remind myself and don't forget why everything happened the way it did.
So here is my laudation to Mari and just gossips from the beginning of my trip:

First try of Windows Movie Maker)

Here is my story about summer 2010 in AIESEC HUST: China, Hubei province, Yichang.
And in fact first experience of Movie Maker.=)



you can download it at a lit bit better quality:
www.mediafire.com/?rodzpbv5vbc36lb

Can I climb this mountain? I don't know...

Have you eaten a slice of melon on a stick right on the street?

When was the last time you were afraid for your life, sitting in a taxi?
Have you drunk a tea made of sunflower seeds?
Or milk tea with jelly?
Oh, and have you tried jelly black potatoes? - From the usual ones,of course.
Or the black goose egg, which doesn't really smell well?
Well, maybe...…

But a green beans ice-cream you definetely haven't tried!!!
You know, with a great pleasure!
Because it's damn hot and you are starving:);
What about chips with the taste of kiwi and lemon?
Dried sweet orange chilli-tomato (in this case with certainty that you are going to eat barberry or something else, until the chewing process)?
Ok, perhaps you have tried. But if no - would you like to?

Hm…why am I writing only about the food? I WANT TO EAT ! The normal food and in large amount. But last week, I eat only this:

Moreover, this is my night - the most valuable - ration: Carrots crude - one piece or half a big one, instant noodles (read "Ukrainian advanced Mivina"), tea, or if I fork out - milk tea with jelly, some fruit (1 piece or no more than 2 yuan worth - for example, half a melon). In the morning I eat only noodles - the same.
That such a nice time. Above all, do not go beyond - only 20 yuan a day. Includes transportation and ice cream during the midday walk (2 yuan).
1 yuan - 1.2 UAH. To live in such amount in the tourist town is easy, most importantly, do not eat in the cafe even once a day. Only boiled water and eating only from the supermarket. And you can survive. We must survive!) Last week till Ukraine and I survive, I will not take or ask for money. )
Well this is the bad news. And now events of the last 2 weeks - Farewell to China. One and a half days and I pull my freight HOME!! YAHOO!
Though I love and hate at the same time China, I am totally ready to come back home.

(photos at bigger size here: http://pics.livejournal.com/eva_zhen_shen/gallery/0002bxxs?page=1)