What if you're unemployed // Коли ви безробітні

I've been meaning to write this blog post for many many weeks, and finally this day has come.
Many of my friends were or currently are unemployed. Moreover, all of us at some point are unemployed. And it's OK! When I was looking for a job and got no responses I felt so miserable, so unhappy and overall lost, it would make a huge difference for me to be told that it's OK. This period in your life won't last forever.

Second Home: Andrea Zozulya

Slowly but steadily I continue to run my project about Americans, who moved to live in Ukraine.
The story of Andrea is unique not only because she has lived in Ukraine for 20 years, the longest among people who I've previously talked to, but also because she dedicated all this time to work and to serve in the least alluring part of Ukraine - Luhansk. She is also the first person on this project I haven't met before. The day I went to Khakiv to talk to her was the first time we ever met. Yet because of active emailing, it felt like we knew each other for a really long time.
I don't have any commercial ambitions regarding this project, it's just me talking to very humble and genuine people, whose stories inspire me personally and, hopefully will inspire you as well.

You can read Andrea's story on my Behance page.

Повільно, але стійко я продовжую працювати над моїм проектом про американців, які переїхали жити в Україну.
Андреа має унікальну історію не тільки тому, що вона жила в Україні протягом 20 років, найдовший серед людей, з якими я раніше говорив, але й тому, що вона присвятила весь цей час працювати та служити в найменш привабливій частині України - Луганську. Вона також є першою людиною на цьому проекті, яку я не знала раніше. Коли я поїхала до Харкова, аби взяти інтерв'ю в Андреа, ми побачились вперше. Тим не менш, через активну переписку поштою, мені здавалося, що ми знали один одного вже давно.
У мене немає жодних комерційних амбіцій щодо цього проекту, я просто спілкуюсь з дуже скромними та щирим людям, чиї розповіді надихають мене особисто і, надіюсь, будуть надихати вас також.

Ви можете прочитати історію Андреа на моїй сторінці Behance.

Letter from the past

I took some notes after my crazy Kyiv-Lutsk-Warsaw-Berlin-Vienna trip, which I did in 5-6 days exactly a year ago. They were lost and accidentally found today (I can sense a metaphor). These are just random thoughts I would like to share with you...
"When you happen to be in Warsaw, Berlin and Vienna on the same day you start losing your timeframe. It's weird that nothing felt like a new place to me... 
Everything was familiar, even though there was nothing of 'mine' around (not sure concept exists at all). I felt like an invisible man, a total stranger, an observer, that can be in different places at the same time unnoticed by others.
I felt more of a journalist than of a traveler. In the course of last two days I've heard more of negative than positive things about the city. That is why I had quite critical attitude to it."