Ukrainians and Russians are beautiful? The most common question from Americans is about beauty of Russian and Ukrainian women. There is a myth that Russian and Ukrainian girls are very beautiful. I believe that all women of every nationality are beautiful but not everybody can underline their advantages and hide disadvantages. Mix of care about yourself, good make up and perfect clothes make everybody incredible. But I noticed something that make this myth true: Shape. Almost all women under 30 are slim because at first women prefer to cook something from their nationality cuisine from healthy products themselves. At the second we do not have such variety of fast foods as in the US, so if you buy something just from restaurant, but this way you will not gain weight because portions are too small, not really small, they are normal just 2 or 3 times smaller than in the US. The third reason woman strive to keep a good shape. So almost all of them have a very good shape because they eat healthy home made food in smaller portion and exercising. Appearance. As funny as it sounds but almost all of them wear make up everywhere even just to throw out the trash. Also Ukrainian and Russian women spend a lot of time in salons of beauty so almost every woman has her nails polished and her brows and eyelashes and hair made. Surgery is not so common but sometimes it happens. So woman take care about themselves. Clothes. There are same clothing stores in the US and Ukrainian, but they have different clothes collection in the US, it is more casual, but more elegant for Europe. So clothes style is different. Women wear high heels not only in night clubs but also at work or movie theaters or even without any reasons. It is common to have an extra pair of shoes with high heels in your bag when you wear sandals or sneakers. So I think Ukrainians and Russians look very pretty because they want to look like this and they invest their time and money on it. But they do not have such perfect skin like korean girls, or filling of style like women from France, or body shape like Brazilians but Ukrainians have been voted as the sexiest nationality in a new survey 🤣.

Culture shock When someone comes back to hearth after living in another country, this person always faces a culture shock. I am not an exception so when I had visited Ukraine after living in the US for 1 year, my home country was not perceived as before leaving. Cultural norms of my country were not estimated by me in the same way, I saw everything with more critical eyes. For two months that I had been in Ukraine reverse adaptation did not start. What was different? 1. People. Women and men with sad facial expressions and eyes that seem hate the whole world in the service sector. They were not patient and they just use intonation that shows that they do not like their job and who they are. I always do not like services in Ukraine but now it was not bad it was awful. Sometimes it could be nice, but it was more often bad than nice. Whole people seemed to have their problems and issues did not live their mind for 24 hours so everyone tried to complain to you for something or just say how everything is bad. 2. City. The third largest city in the country seemed so small and so low and nothing have changed for this time, the new park that should have been opened 6 mouths ago steel was closed. The road that was being repaired steel continue reestablishing, time frizzed. 3. General poverty. For a year I used to see nice well maintained homes, new cars on the street, homeless people that look like normal people instead of old pensioners that try to survive for their pension. The standard of living was much lower than in US.

Devil is in details I think Americans and Ukrainians have a lot of common , but many differences in little things. Everything is the same but different at the same time. First example is about time, I tried to set an appointment at 17.30 or went to the movie theater at the 21.15 in the night time but people were confused. Ukraines and Russians use 24 hour time format that is more common in the world, 12 hours time format that Americans use is very convenient, but different. Even day must be written in a different way, at first month then day instead of usual day then month. Measuring system is completely different than in Ukraine and Russia. Fahrenheit instead of the usual Celsius, pounds instead of kilograms,gallons instead of liters. It’s not a big deal but I still prefer to use system that I am used to. Number of flowers that people present to alive people also different. I have already got used to be presented even numbers of flowers but in Ukraine or Russia it can make me angry because only odd number of flowers is for alive people, even just for those who have already passed away, or for a very very bad joke. Next one is about apartment. Lack of overhead light in the bedroom in the US makes me feel bad. In Ukraine or Russia we have bright overhead light in every room and almost do not use low light from floor lamps.

New hobbies Thanks to isolation I got into new hobbies and started to follow new daily rutine At first I started to be interested in programming now I am attending an online course. I am a new born in this area so sometimes this is hard but I am not going to give up. I have already made a plane which knowledges I have to have so I picked some online courses that I will take next. Secondly I got into psychology, I always wanted to study it, I used to buy books of psychology, NLP, but had never finished reading it, they stayed in my home town. Now I get into psychology, I watch programs about psychology, I have tried to listen to a audio books but I do not like this way so I am thinking to buy books again. I just want to understand others and myself. At third is sports. Sports always was in my life, but now is just new kind of sports. I love sports because it shows how a person can change himself or herself if makes attempts on a regular basis. Systematic repetition of the same will do better result then rarely trying something new every time ( it is about skills and sports). At fourth is English. I have never spent so many hours for it before. It is paradoxical but when I turned out to be isolated I started spending more time for English then when I was surrounded by Americans outside before. I started to study Chinese but understood that It’s too much and I have to put priorities.

Photography rules. What the best time for photography? You can choose any suitable time for yourself but I can recommend to pick the best one. The best time for photos is one hour after sunrise and one hour before sunset. Four or three hours before sunset work well too. Evening times is always good but photoshoot should end before dark so you will need extra light. What to wear for a photo shoot. Try to pick the best clothes from your wardrobe but remember to leave clothes with patern home. Plain clothes always look more stylish. Also color of your clothes should work with a background so choose clothes with similar shades where photoshoot have to be. But avoid very bright colors, neutral shades are the best. For example colors of fall are Orange, yellow, brown, black, so clothes this shades are good for photo shoot. Also There are a bunch of methods for picking clothes of the right color in color circle, the internet has more information. At the same time It is very cool If you bring extra clothes like a light jacket. It will make your image more interesting. It is very important not only to pick right clothes but the accessories too. Hats, glasses, watches, jewelry, bags make your image finished. Be sure to use this. What you must take with you. It is windy outside so take a comb with you, some times you need do your hair. Bright lipstick just in case for a bright image. Bright lipstick will be not too bright on the pictures because a camera make saturation less bright, so it will be perfect. Do not take that you will not use

You did not know about this cheese. I decided to challenge myself and started keeping a diary during 30 day to be able to generate my thoughts quicker and more correctly, I hope it will help me. # And today is my first day of a diary challenge. Starting from two days before I am on my diet so I can not think about something except of food, so the first topic will be about nutrition. When I came to US I was shocked that cottage cheese is not popular in here, some people have never even tried it. For me it was really weird because in Ukraine it is food number one for sports people, especially for vegetarians. What does it mean? That people who are addicted to sports or who just try to be in a good shape or who follow the diet always try to eat more eggs, chicken, cottage cheese or shrimps ( but shrimps are not cheap in Ukraine if based on the minimum salary, so no one doesn’t want to lose a fortune eat only shrimps). People eat these products because they contain a lot of natural protein, not every one wants to buy dry protein in the package if you can use natural one from food. Also some people are sure that a dry protein is unhealthy. So if Americans do not use cottage cheese a lot how do they replace it? It really is the ideal food for any diet and good for health, it is a source of calcium, magnesium and vitamins B. And how many delicious dishes can you make? A lot of amazing things can be made from this product. Everyone can make a healthy desert from it.