Long time ago (it is already eight years) I was a student. Who is able to count will understand that life in Kiev and in Ukraine of that time was different, simpler and more hopeless. russian school A student if he/she was smart could find a job and school and earn on the side a hundred dollar a month, more or less but enough for meals. But one did not want to believe that this is all and it won�t be better. Although something "better" was quite around the corner language school in building number eight (there are faculties FAKS and FICT situated). Once I was lucky and made a mistake while entering a wrong door. That is how I steped into the world of IAESTE.

Russian Course in Kiev after a short discussion Tamara Grigorjevna Stryzhak told me Gagarin's famous phrase �Let's go!� and finally I went to Germany for a traineeship. I had a working place, someone presented me a couple of serious problems from the automatic control theory, I would work on, and paid me for all thisl 1200 Deutsch-Mark per month (German people had such money)learn language inKiev what was equivalent to 600 USD. So I fell in love with Germany, first impressed by its financial attraction and prosperity. Time was running so fast with lucky days full of discovering russian school new things at the working place and in private life, full of making acquaintance with German culture and people from Germany, full of journeys. But you have to know if you are not able to speak English or German although you are communicative you will be excluded. Let�s guess what I did first? Exactly, I started to play volleyball with Germans, more precisely with German children to learn German.