About this Issue

My Life and Me

I think that my biography is ideal. I entered kindergarten on time, had good results at school, entered university on the budget basis. More or less I know who I am going to be in future and have a very precise understanding of what I need in this life.

My childhood passed in the suburbs of Kiev. Forest, squirrels, and private house – all these things make a big impression on a child. I am a little Princess in a big fairy forest. My house is my fortress. My life is a fairy tale.

I would like to be a princess with a beautiful hair style and fancy shiny dress.

I would like to be a Dragon, black and sparkling, with wings and tail (that is compulsory!)

Of course, it is just kidding. I think that the most important is that I will be able to show the tenderness of a princess and firmness of a dragon.

I entered school in Kiev. My parents took care of my education.

They registered me for the English course and dancing section. I attended dancing section for a long time; in fact, there were different kinds of dancing. Most of all I liked Latin-American dances.

I really wanted to be on points, but I didn’t get enough learning before certain age.

I attended piano courses a little bit, but I was not inspired enough. Even though piano is a very beautiful black best, and I always wanted to play it, I lacked patience.

However, I can draw very well. I think that is from my family. I never learned to do that.

So, I graduated from school. University… Everything new, unusual, exciting… More freedom, more responsibility… I started to visit other cities. I became interested in learning the history of our country.

I like to ride horses, ride a bike, and play bowling. I adore sun, beach and oranges.

I study English very hard – this is my damnation – but it is irrelevant for photography.

I like music. I am extravert, and everything that surrounds me influences me much.

Before entering university I studied Math for 2 years – it made me more organized.

My main hobby is my studies. I like difficult tasks and speaking before the audience in a business suit. I like to be in the centre. My motto is “communication moves the progress”. If I am surrounded by unknown people, I want to seem to be better. When it happens all the time, I start to correspond to that image automatically.

Regardless of any influence of capitalistic country on me, I am a romantic in my soul (at least I hope so), and I still believe in princesses and dragons.

About Myself

My name is Anastasia. I think that the name of a person can express many things. My name suits me perfectly because I am kind, tender, attentive, and sociable – these are indeed my qualities. Girls with the name Anastasia often choose professions that require creativity. As for me, I really like dancing – I have attended chorographical ensemble for 10 years. My mother told me that my favorite hobby while I was a child was dancing, sometimes even without music.

At school I was never still, and I managed to do everything: I had good grades, participated in the school humor club team and all school celebrations, and attended dancing courses. I never studied too hard, but knowledge was very easy to get for me, and teachers liked me for my social activity. Now I understand that those were the best years of my life – 10th and 11th school-years. I didn’t have any problems, no concerns, only friendly and cheerful classmates – just to live or be happy. Together with my classmates we still visit school on holidays to see the teachers (last time we stayed till 2 a.m., and if the teachers didn’t get tired, we could stay till morning) and they are very glad to see us.

When I entered university, I chose the profession that I wanted to have. Tourism manager is a sociable, open-minded and very useful person nowadays. The most important thing that influenced my profession choice was socializing with people. I would never be able to stay at the same place all the time and do some routine work. But being a tourism manager means knowing all the beautiful places of our planet, traveling and giving people joy – since everybody dreams about holidays during the whole year, and it is very important to avoid mistakes in choosing a tourist company.

I do not feel that I am a grown-up person yet. I still feel like I have just graduated from the school, at the age of 18. Many people get married already at my age, make a family, but I am not in a hurry with that. I don’t want to be dependant on my husband, that’s why I need to attain many things. I am very independent girl and I think that a wife could be dependant on a husband in the XIX century, when women were not allowed to do anything. But now there are a lot of professions for women, and even in masculine professions some women have attained perfection.

In general I think that one should try everything in life, or at least try to do that, as we have only one life!