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Hello my dears,
Missed me?)

It had been a long time, right? I have something new to tell you: i'm leaving soon!! Even more, i'm going to Italy! "Again?!" you can ask. "Always!", i told you i would come back there)

Do you remember that last year i hosted a girl from Colombia who came to Moscow for social internship? Now it's my turn. There is an international student organization called AIESEC, who is organizing international internships. So one day i was looking through their web site and found an amazing social internship in Catania! In my favourite Catania, in Sicily! Do you thing i had any doubts about it? It was like a sign XD

So, i just applied for it, had an interview with local organization, then with italian organization, and then i was matched! How i've understood there we will make some photo-project about Sicily, what is nice, but honestly i dont care what this project is about, i just want to come back to Italy)

So so so, less than in one month I'm going back to Sicily to drink a lot, eat even more than drink and enjoy my life there XD

Chernobil, or how I escaped from Moscow rains)

Do you know anything about Chernobil? Brifly, it is a small town in Ukrain where on 26 apil 1986 was the worst nuclear power plant accindent in history. Place was totally abandoned and closed, but several years ago the radiation level there fell down so it was possible to visit that place. You can say i was crazy but i decided to go there and besides to visit Kiev, that i'd never been to) Also weather there was way better than in Moscow, so here were the reasons why i went to Ukrain)

You know, in Russian we dont consider Ukrain as an independent country,for us it is more or less lost part of Russia: they speek russian, they look like us, everything there looks the same =) But i really wanted to visit Kiev, because actually that city was the first russian capital (funny, right?). But when i came there i had strong feeling that i cameto some old russian city: all the same ortodox churches, the same monuments, the same soviet-style buildings. Nice, even beautiful in some points, but definitely not for me, i prefer crazy italian places, you know XD Buuut, there was something i loved - they had very unstabelpolitic situation andpeople there were protestings all the time, but the funny thing was that they used soviet (!) songs in their protests XD

But then i went to Chernobil, and, guys, that place blowed my mind. Totally goast city, i had feeling there like people just disappered at one moment and left everything there (well, more or less it was so). It was like a screenshort of Apocalypse movie, when nature was destroying all footsteps of humanbeings step by step (it look like NYC in "I Am Legend" only without lions). I was shoked by that place. There you can see how humans are destroying themselfs. It is hard to describe feeling that i had there ...

But but but, it was time tocome back to my real life, to my university, and to my friends, so i stayed in Kiev only two more days and on monday morning was home already read to face wet moscowfall =)

To sum up...

Well, well, well, as everything in this world, my trip came to its logical end. Here i am in cold rainy Moscow and its time to sum up a bit this summer)

Iremember once, when i was in Siena, my american girls and i talked about Italy and i said "i had so strict plan about all my trip,everything was scheduled so well, but then i met this americansand my plan went to hell" XD More or less that is what happened. To be more exact everything started to fall apart when my first project was cancelled at the middle of it =) Just to make you understand how chaotic my trip was here is the map of it:

• More or less ive visited 23 cities, towns, and villages
• Tried endless amount of traditional italian food
• Started to speak italian (!) 
• Drank endless amunt of italian wine 
• Got lost at least 10 times 
• Was robbed once
• Slept on the street ones
• Used italian trains at least 50 times)

It was a great experience, a lot of fun, a real test for me. I fell in love with this country, and i know for sure that i will come back there many many times) But also during this trip i met old and new friends who made my trip unforgetable.

Grazie e basta XD

Paris always will be Paris

Paris. For me it always was a finish point in my big itlaian trip, thats was the first reason why i didnt want to go there. The second - because id been there already and didnt like it. But i had no choise and wonderful Vueling airlines brought me there.

Actually there were some good points in Paris. First - i was going to meet my friend Mathieu, who i met year before in Moscow. Second - Suzie, my dear american friend was coming to Paris the same day with me. Third - my another very good friend Pasha, and fourth - my granny finally desided to realise dream of her life and also was coming to Paris. Because of the last i just had to go to Paris =)

french alcohol also looks refind =)

Well, what new can i say about this place? There are so many books, movies, poems and songs about Paris that i have nothing to add XD For my taste they talk about Paris too much, there is nothing THAT special abut this place. Yes, it is beautiful, yes, it is like a oicture onsome postcard, yes, you see Eiffel tower there. But nobody tells you about a crowd of tourists, about rude local people, about not that good weather (comparing to italy especially)

my personal heaven)

But, wait, thee are some things that i like about Paris. I do love its Musee d'Orsay with my favourite Van Gogh  and Monet paintings, that i can look at for hours, i love to go for a french picnic with fresh baguette, cheese, and wine(that is what we've on my second day there XD) and i am in love with french food (i think im in love with all food XD)




So, french food. It is so so good, very different from italian, but it doesnt make it worse =) First of all sweets! For sure you know about french macarons, but hadnt tried them if you didnt try them in Paris. Here you can find all possible and impossible combinations of tastes, so far my favourite one is vanilla with solty caramel. Besides macarons you can fins as many kinds of cookies and chocolate as you can imagine. What else? Pastry! Not only croissant, but also different kinds of brioches, eclairs, financiers and many many other refind decerts, talking about what makes me starving XD


Also i love french dishes made of duck (they know thousends ways of cooking it). But my leaders of french cousine are wine and cheese, oh right combination of this two make you forget about everything. And talking about cheese i cant forget to mention fondue, after what you smell like ell, but so so sutisfited)

picnics, i love it)

I dont want to write here how i went toall possiblemuseums with my granny, or how i spent 6 hour in Gallery  Lafayette, but if i want to describe shortly my staying in Parisis enough to say that i was drinking wine and eating cheese, not forgeting about sweets of course XD