For Lena, it was a complicated turn of events to enter the world of children education. First, she thought she would become a doctor, as she didn’t have problems with memorizing and understanding even the most difficult subjects. But medicine demanded not only educational effort. It required vocation of spending one’s life helping people and a whole lot of mess. While the helping...
There is one week during the year which fills many with suicidal thoughts. There are expectations never to be met, there are customs which many obey out of sheer fear of breaking out of tradition, there are religious beliefs that help people shift the focus from this difficult time and survive. When you are a child the whole experience is positive, as you...
Anton Volkov at the ripe age of nineteen came to Warsaw with the idea of becoming a poet. You’d be surprised if you saw his home village in far Russia, where poverty touched the level of dilapidated wooden huts dating back to the middle of the nineteenth century, little wooden cottages which remembered the times of Tsar, Russian Revolution, World War One and...
Robert Rej had always known he was gay. When young, he might have appreciated the girls’ looks, could distinctly tell which one was attractive and which one was simply plain. But the sense of taste had little to do with his state of emotions and physical needs. He enjoyed girl’s company and they definitely enjoyed his. He had always some sort of a...
