The war scattered our friendly institute family all over the world. But we try to stick together with all our thoughts. First-year student Nadiya Chernenko (gr. 141) shares her current life story with us.

"Germany, a village on the outskirts of Munich. A German family took me and my sister and me to live in three places. The owners are the same age as my mother. They have two sons (7 and 11 years old). My sister is 9 years old. She became friends with them, but they communicate only with gestures. For me, as a student of the Institute of Foreign Languages, a big plus is that you can communicate with locals only in English or German.

- Hopefully, do you do charity work in these difficult times?

- Regarding volunteering. Having brainstormed which of the areas of volunteering I do best, I joined the ranks of Ukrainian-language assistants for German teachers. The job is to help Ukrainian students adapt to the new environment.

I would like to try myself as a teacher, and try not to burn out emotionally.

- How did you organize your educational process in Germany? Is there a motivation to learn? What problems did you face?

- The process takes place when there is time, resources and at least some preparation. It would seem that while sitting at home, she had a lot of time between descents to the basement, but in her head, to put it mildly, was porridge. It is difficult to perform tasks, to immerse yourself in new material, when your own thoughts have no structure. It's like reading a book and realizing at one point that you've reread a paragraph several times, but even if you kill it, you don't understand the point. Due to the lost time taken by the long road on the route Cherkasy - Kramatorsk - Lviv - Chelm - Munich - Sauerlach, and due to further fuss with documents, a lot of undigested material has accumulated.

After leaving for Germany, the motivation to learn German often outweighs the effort to organize seminars and others. I attend two German courses at a local school and another online.

- Hope, how do you feel?

- Returning to a quiet lifestyle took a long time. But there is still a background of anxiety. It is still difficult to stop reacting to loud noises and get used to the fact that planes over a German village are often safe.

There was a whole range of feelings: from burning shame to enveloping guilt; there was, on the contrary, a complete lack of emotion.

- What do you want most?

- The answer is somewhat obvious that I would like to finally meet my family, friends, classmates. But it is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. For some reason, only in difficult times do we realize how little we need for happiness. When everything is fine, people get lost in everyday life and forget to appreciate the little joys of life.

- Do you like the city in which you now live?

- The village where we are (Sauerlach), about 20 km from Munich. So, having the opportunity to visit the center of Bavaria at least once in my life, with google maps in my pocket, I went on a tour of the Nymphenburg Palace, Marienplatz. A city with outstanding architecture, developed infrastructure, flat buildings, clear rules.

But no matter how good everything is, it is someone else's.