Merry Christmas, the world!
Wow, we recorded this episode a year ago... But it is still war in Ukraine. Please see the ways to help Ukraine today:
https://supportukrainenow.org/
Especially, we encourage you to donate to the SUN Leaders Program which provides scholarship to young leaders of Ukraine who address specific social issues helping this fearless country to win in the mid- to long-term.
What's inside this episode:
- one family, different arrival stories; one context, different perception;
- good relationships with family vs. good relationships with friends theory;
- when Tetyana went to the US, her host family's daughter was only 10; instead, Anastasia had to deal with a teenager as her sibling during the exchange year;
- Anastasia: a hilarious story of cooking mushrooms for her host family;
- Tetyana: on meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger.
After FLEX, Anastasia Prokhorenko🇺🇦 took place in the Ukraine Got Talent show (https://youtu.be/ESZtHR3JVtE). She also had to deal with her real mom's expectations. Currently, she lives in the US🇺🇸 covering her life on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClP647HvI5vezA_IsvmbTYA
After her year abroad, Tetyana Kondrya🇺🇦 found FLEX across all her life activities; it helped her to:
- obtain the first job;
- get an apartment in Kyiv via a trusted contact;
- become a teacher assistant;
- join an IT company (now for 8 years!);
- and eventually move to the UK🇬🇧.
Your other co-host Denys Andrushchenko🇺🇦 is also a FLEX program alumnus of 2012, member of a Rotary Club Cherkasy-Centre, and a founder of the Leaders Fund. He stayed in Cherkasy, Ukraine, throughout the war.
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