I am coming to Russia!!!
I will be in Yekaterinburg from September 11 - 14
and in Moscow from September 15 - 19
Vse kto hotyat vstretitsya, pishite i zvonite. Ya budu v Ekaterinburge s 11 po 14 Sentyabrya i v Moskve s 15 po 19.
Yesterday we watch " An unconvenient truth" movie and i highly recommend everybody to see it. It is one of the best movies that I have seen in the USA and definitely one of my all times favorite. It is more or less a documentary movie with abundance of important information. I have known some of the information about the problem of global warming but this movie has opened my eyes even wider. If you have a chance watch a movie and make a difference.
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A friend of mine Bari was showing me some painting technique today and he helped me fix my painting. Here is how it looks now. It drove me crazy before because the vase was not right.
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V Atlante na beisbalnoi igre Braves!!! My first professional baseball game. Bilo ochen veselo i komapniya bila prosto super!!!
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V etot raz ya posmotrela dva show na Broadway : "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and "Spelling Bee". Eshe pobivala v parochke horoshih nochnih klubov, samii prikolnii bil "Crobar" i vstretilas s druziyami.
Pomeshau fotki!!!
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http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/index.cfm
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.
Each year, MSF doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other medical and non-medical professionals depart on more than 3,800 field assignments. They work alongside more than 22,500 locally hired staff to provide medical care.
In emergencies and their aftermath, MSF provides health care, rehabilitates and runs hospitals and clinics, performs surgery, battles epidemics, carries out vaccination campaigns, operates feeding centers for malnourished children, and offers mental health care. When needed, MSF also constructs wells and dispenses clean drinking water, and provides shelter materials like blankets and plastic sheeting.
Through longer-term programs, MSF treats patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, sleeping sickness, and HIV/AIDS, and provides medical and psychological care to marginalized groups such as street children.
MSF was founded in 1971 as a nongovernmental organization to both provide emergency medical assistance and bear witness publicly to the plight of the people it assists. A private nonprofit association, MSF is an international network with sections in 19 countries.
I had a bad day but I made it better by making donation :-) This is better than any antidepressants!!!
In a world where the need for Doctors Without Borders' work is greater than ever, your support is the fuel that drives us to reach the most vulnerable, to raise issues that are not popular, and to demand - and help bring about - an end to suffering. Without you, our work simply would not be possible.
Vot tak ya sebya seichas chuvstvuu. Vsya eta roskash v odinochestve mne ni k chemu. Hochu domoi!!!
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Ya snova v New Yorke. Priehala na nedelu po rabote v komndirovku, v pervii raz odna bez muzha, sestri ili podrugi. Bilo dazhe grustno brodit po gorodu odnoi, tut ochen odinoko. Vse kuda-to speshat, vse zanyati, gorod vpervie ostavil ochen tyazeloe vpechatlenie.
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This is another site that I support.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
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Your Donation: |
What It Can Provide: |
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$35 |
Two high-energy meals a day to 200 children |
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$50 |
Vaccinations for 50 people against meningitis, measles, polio or other deadly epidemics |
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$70 |
Two basic suture kits to repair minor shrapnel wounds |
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$100 |
Infection-fighting antibiotics to treat nearly 40 wounded children |
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$250 |
A sterilization kit for syringes and needles used in mobile vaccination campaigns |
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$500 |
A medical kit containing basic drugs, supplies, equipment, and dressings to treat 1,500 patients for three months |
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$1000 |
Emergency medical supplies to aid 5,000 disaster victims for an entire month |
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$5500 |
An emergency health kit to care for 10,000 displaced people for three months |
In a world where the need for Doctors Without Borders' work is greater than ever, your support is the fuel that drives us to reach the most vulnerable, to raise issues that are not popular, and to demand - and help bring about - an end to suffering. Without you, our work simply would not be possible.
You will also be receiving a thank you letter in the mail, which will serve as your legal receipt.
ENTEBBE, Uganda (CNN) -- Just imagine for a moment that everything you own -- from your hard-earned money to your home to your car to little mementos like pictures on the wall -- has just been taken from you by a group of people who don't like the way you look or the shade of your skin or the shape of your nose. Everything gone except, perhaps, the clothes on your back.
You've been forced to flee, probably separated from your family and end up on the run with a bunch of people you've never met, but with whom you now share a common goal -- staying alive.
Many hours or even days later, you arrive at a shelter run by an international nongovernmental organization.
You're tired, exhausted, sick to your stomach and scared to death. You end up sharing a tent with 40 to 60 other strangers where your bathroom, bedroom and kitchen combined have all been reduced to little more than the size of a normal bed.
And this will be your home for the next few months, perhaps years, and in some cases, decades. This is what it's like for a person fleeing persecution, war, civil strife, genocide.
Imagine living like this for years if not decades, raising your family in a refugee camp because you can't go home. Even if you do manage to go home, you learn someone else has taken over your land, your home, your life.
I've seen that person many times, that face that says, "I too once had it all but one day lost it all." Faces of refugees across the Africa I've been traversing for the past decade and a half, from Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa, from Congo to Tanzania in the center of the continent and from Somalia to Sudan in the East.
Their stories are as heartbreaking as they are gut wrenching, lives turned upside down in the blink of an eye.
Living in a stadium sharing a pit latrine
Like the time I ran into Marcus Sawyer, once a wealthy attorney in Liberia's capital, Monrovia. Sawyer owned holiday homes in South Africa, an apartment in the south of France, real estate in Dubai. You name it, he had it. He had some big clients in the country, including influential government officials.
One day rebels invaded the capital and Sawyer, his family and thousands of Liberians were forced to flee and seek refuge in the city's soccer stadium, the former home of the national team, The Lone Stars.
Suddenly it was home to more than 50,000 internally displaced people, or "IDPs," and would become Sawyer's new residence for the next six months.
"I never imagined in my wildest dreams I'd end up like this," he once told me, "sharing an outdoor pit latrine with a thousand people, sleeping in the same room with dozens of strangers. It takes some getting used to."
The last time I saw Sawyer he had become a shell of his old self -- dejected, depressed and despondent.
And then there was the time I was in Gulu, in northern Uganda, where I came face to face with a new kind of terror -- and a new kind of refugee. A town where for 20 years one man has caused untold suffering.
The man's name is Joseph Kony, a one-time altar boy who claimed to have a vision from God to wage war against the Ugandan government.
Human rights groups say his rebels kidnapped children, brainwashed them and turned them into killing machines responsible for thousands of deaths, their victims often raped and tortured.
Propping up firewood with human heads
I met 19-year-old Alice Abalo at a rehabilitation center run by the nongovernmental organization, World Vision, for those who escaped.
She was one of the lucky ones who had managed the impossible, fleeing with her 4-year old daughter, a product of rape. At first she didn't say much, but when she warmed up, she recounted tales of terror that could make anyone's skin crawl.
"One day the group we were in had just killed about six people and proceeded to decapitate them," she said. "Then, I was asked to light a wood fire using the victims' heads as support, the same way one would use three stones. I still have nightmares of their burning hair and brains oozing out of the burning heads. It was horrible."
Alice bore some visible physical wounds of torture, bullet scars on her leg and shrapnel wounds on her chest. Aid workers said her physical wounds would eventually heal but her mental scars would no doubt last a lifetime.
She was to stay at this center for 45 days and then make her way back to her home in a village 20 miles away -- that was if her home had survived the rebel onslaught.
Trying to annihilate a generation of newborns
And just when it seemed things couldn't get more depressing on a continent where misery
Check this out. IF you ever take life for granted and feel like you are having a bad day, learn what it happaning with this people and it will help you feel better. It helps me. We can make a difference!!!
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
[698x106]Alla, thank you for your generous contribution. Please know that your donation will be applied immediately to USA for UNHCR's Refugee Youth and Children.
As you no doubt know, this is a time of challenge. The burgeoning crisis in Sudan has forced 1.5 million people to leave their homes. In Afghanistan, Iraq and Liberia, millions more need both aid and protection.
With your gift, shelter, water, healthcare, and other life-saving assistance can be raced to the 20 million refugees under UNHCR's care, most of them women and children.
Around the world, UNHCR is working to protect, assist, and provide durable solutions for those who flee persecution and war. Your support makes this lifesaving work possible.
We couldn't do it without you.
Warmly,
Caryl García
Executive Director
USA for UNHCR
That makes my day :-)
Ya dumala nado mesyazami ochitsya katatsya na surfe, a ya za tri dnya nauchilas. Pervii den katalas na puze, vtoroi na kolenyah, tretii den uzhe na nogah. Vchera na okeane bila s 7:30 utra do 8:30 vechera. Segodnya v 7 urta uzhe opyat katalas na surfe. Eto moya novaya strast, schastie bezgranichnoe ot takih oshushenii!!!
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Marius v voskresenie tozhe uchilsya katatsya na surfe :-) Na etoi bolshoi doske ya smogla vstat na nogi i prokatitsya na parochke voln.
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Sestrenka rostet ne pro dnyam a po chasam, Lenchik kak vsegda shikulka :-) Nu a dyadka borodatii tak zatyasalsya :-)
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