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Hello, dear myLotters! As I posted my first thing just yesterday, I was told that some introduction of myself would be fine as well. So here I am - Anastasia, 26, Ukrainian:) I love my country and don't want to leave it as plenty of my peers have done or are doing, but some things here make me really sad e.g. our roads ?? Though I've been told that in some parts of the USA the roads are the same, which was some comfort, hehe. I've been married for almost 6 years now and have a baby son Nicholas, so maternity leave is what I'm going through right now. The LO is a nice strong lad - I carried him so much on my hands that even developed a tendovaginitis - like an inflammation of a wrist. This condition is also called "Mommy's wrist", so funny:) so these days I'm wearing a plaster brace on my wrist but it's removable. My job is teaching English at a private language school and I'm trying to keep this practice up, having one online lesson per day, while my husband is babysitting Nicholas:) I enjoy teaching very much but never stop learning the language myself. I'm really into reading, as Kafka said "Literature is my flesh and blood", my favourite writers being Tolkien, Lewis, Dickens, Lucy Montgomery and several Russian authors. There are plenty of books in my apartment, however since it's rented, my husband isn't especially happy about that:) I also used to write poems in my childhood and teens, even took some prizes for that, but alas, somehow I've lost either a talent or a wish to write with time. Hope it comes back! Singing is my another passion. I'm a member of an Orthodox Youth organisation in my city and before the maternity leave I was a host of their concerts and performed there as well. It was fun and a good thing to do, too, since almost all of the concerts were charitable. I also play the guitar a little but not at a concert level, just for myself. On maternity leave I'm trying not to stay idle and create different online challenges, walk out with a pram a lot, read, participate in some charity as well. Forgot to say - I also have two sweet rats. Yeah, despite the stereotypes, they are the cleanest and sweetest animals, but have a very short life span. So we love them and spoil them a little:) Thanks a lot for your attention to this small biography. I'm sure I've missed something however this is a quick overview of my life.