“Where are you from, from Germany?” I took my driving test, and my Nepali instructor was surprisingly talkative. “No, from Ukraine,” I answered without turning my head. The stress level was already off the charts. I nervously repeated the mantra to myself “watch for stop signs - don’t...

Fresh pita bread from a shop near the house, walks in a pine park by the lake, family holidays... The longing for family, familiar tastes and worldview persists even after several years of living abroad. What expats and emigrants miss most about the USA is...

Insolence in relation to clients, intrusive marketing, high prices and surcharges for additional services - these, in my personal experience, are the common features of most chain sports establishments in Kyiv. Customers receive a barrage of SMS advertisements, even if they have just purchased a subscription, for a lost plastic...

“Sasha, don’t jump off the swing,” is heard at a playground in the suburbs of Miami. This place is called “Little Moscow”, that is, “Little Moscow”. You hear Russian here more often than English. During the half-day spent in this park on the Atlantic coast, a Ukrainian-speaking mother...

Even taking into account the cost of a car, a family can save up to 60% on their vacation by using a trailer. “When I retire, I’ll buy myself a trailer with all the amenities and live on the beach,” my 30-something-year-old shared his “American dream.”

Old-fashioned jeans, a bag on a belt, a strange accent, a confused look at the turnstiles in the subway. American tourists in Washington are immediately recognizable. Distinguish, finally, where is the White House, and where is the Capitol, look at the majestic memorials of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Jefferson, walk around the magnificent free museums ...

At school we learned that Ukrainian emigrants are usually divided into four waves, Maria Prus writes in a blog for the Voice of America. The first is “labor emigrants” (mid-19th century - beginning of the First World War), mostly young, single men, poor and illiterate, and...

Only the lazy, it seems, did not joke about Americans as “the fattest nation.” The national obesity problem is a serious one, yet 51% of adults in the United States engage in at least two and a half hours of moderate-intensity exercise per week, and 31% engage in...

I was lucky to be born a few days after they stopped writing "Kiev, Ukrainian SSR" on birth certificates. And I can only judge about Soviet times from the stories of relatives. But in Washington, I saw things that I thought were left in ...

“Oh, ugly Christmas sweater,” a colleague commented on my new purchase, featuring a charismatic penguin and a snowflake pattern. I was a little offended. Because I didn’t yet know about this special category of winter clothing - the Ugly Christmas Sweater. These are red and green sweaters...