Lot's of work

Hey, hey!!

I know that I haven't writen here since last two weeks. There was a lot of resons why I hasdn't time to write here.
First of all I got the information, that I didn't get the job at the AMS. And I'm very-very happy about it.
As I've written before - it wasn't job of my dream. And when I got a phone that after the interview they've decided. that I'm very good and they'd like to recrute me. I had shock. But that fact that I cann't work on the full-time job was the only reson why they hadn't recrute me.  And I'm very very happy!!
Now I'm working on my Masters paper. I also have to write 3 articles for different journals.
At the moment I'm finishing one about Kirgistan. I couple of days I'll write here some main ideas of the article. The deadline is 11/4/2012. So it will be pretty soon. I hope to finish it tomorrow.
Thhis year I'll have a group! Yeah! Real group of people whom I'll teach German. Last year there was no people who'd like to learn German. But this year I'll have maybe 5-6 person.. I'll see them on Friday..
My real group..

So it is. My last two weeks in short.
Wait for my articles. I'll write the main ideas here.

Aha, one thing more. I'm searching for a PhD program in Europe on IR or Political science.
 I know that there's no big auditory of readers of this blog. But if there's someone who's reading it at the moment and he/she knows something about the PhD programs- I'll be happy to get some information.

That's the end :)

And a song for you!

Stay yourself

Maybe you remember my interview, I had couple of days before. And that philosofy of what I should do with all this..
So here comes the end. I was on that interview. I tried to be true. I was just telling what I'm thinking about. All th equestions that were asked I gave the answer, wich I thougt would be the best one.. I wasn't nervous.. I tried to stay myself..
I saw how the work athe corporation looks like. I understood that I don't want to work there!
And I was very-very happy, when on Friday they called me back and told that I was really good at the interview, and they want to hire me, but that fact that I'm still studying and have to go to the lessons cannot allow them to hire me. They'd love to, because I was great, but they need someone who could work for them on their full-time job.
But I was so happy to hear that words! I really don't want to work at such place, so now - I can normally start to write some of my articles and write my MA paper.
And I hope that later I'll be able to start work at some think tank...

Liar, liar, liar

I don't know if you remembeer, but some time ago I was writing about the hard resiccion about should I go to work, that my friends have found for me or not. Ib sum, I've decided that I should try. And here it is! The last day of my recrutation process. Today I'll have an official dialog with managers..
You know what would be really hard? To tell the truth. Yeah! If you'll analyze the work of such big corporations as AMS, where I'm going today, you'll find and understand what answers they want to hear. They want you to become depandant on the work you'll get, they want you to work on your career growth and wait long untill it'll happen. They want you to spend all your time working for them. And the best motivation would be - getting new experience and the willingness to work in a large international team.
And for that purpose they are making a lot of promotion films about the company, where smiling people are telling their histories and telling "magic words" that without AMS they were nothing, that here they could develop themselves, they are doing the work of their dreams and so on.
So tell me, how could normal person, who comes to such last stage of the recrutation stay true? Now I'm just a student and in the next year I'm going to start my PhD in IR. It's my purpose. But I have to help my young sister, she started studying medicine this year, and, in case of that I understand that I should get some money. And work in such corporation is the best decission. And how I can in such situation stay true? I hate liars and I don't want to become one of them..
At the moment I know what they wat, and they think, that they know what I want...
I'll have meeting at 12 p.m. So we'll see what the end would be of all this history.
Wish me luck!!!

My day of the literature

Today I was thinking about the literature.
Everyone has his/her favourite book. Even more - we have our favourite writers, sometimes we like the whole epoch.. I thought that I was such a person. If I'm reading it should be only Classic, it doesn't matter if it's prose or poetry.Only Classic.. Dostojevsky, Tolstoi, Yesenin.. only Classic Russian Literature.
Some time later I've found some new russian writers - R. Roshdestvenskiy and some other. And, you know, they are great.
But I was sure that I'll never read something of the postmodern.It's owfull literature and how domeone can read it. And today, when I was listening to the one of the best poems of the R.Rozhdestvenskiy, in recommendended videos I've found one video.. It's called Post-modern poetry.. And I think It's great..
I won't tell nothing more, just want to show you both this videos.

Collective memory

Finally!!
Finally I've found time and topic to write some analytics, as I promissed in my pilot post.
This aummer I had great oppotrunity to visit Byelorussia. And after this visit I've made some conclussions about Slavic mentality.
I was born in Ukraine, but I was drowing up in Russian media sphere, now I'm studying in Poland and that my last visit to Minsk showed me such an interesting difference between this 4 ethnic groups.
I hope that you know, that all these ethnic groups are Slavic, our languages are very similar, and culture also doesn't difference a lot.
All of these, today independent, countries has its own politics in all spheres. But we all have some moments in the history when we were together and today it'ss interesting to see how different are the opinions of the residents of each country on the same question. I've analyzed it on the example of the Soviet Union as a moment in their history.
And here are the conclusions.
Maybe, youve admitted, that Russia in the last years tries to show that that everything that was done and achieved in that time it was only because of that fact that Russia was the leader in the USSR. Of corse if we'll look in the past we'll see that the main actor in the SU was Russia, but in the question of the II World War we can not say that it was only the achievement of Russia. If we'll remember the statistics we'll see, that russians, ukrainians and byelorussians were fighting together. They all died for the USSR..
And today Russia tries to change such understanding. The President of Russia doesn't lose any moment to say that Russians were fighting, that  they died and he tries to underline that it was really not Soviet Union but Russian Union..
In Ukraine you'll see another situation.. They admit that fact, that they were in the Soviet Union, and that part of them were fighting on the one side with the russians and other, but all the time they say that they also were fighting contra USSR. And you should'n remember USSR but the ukrainia nnational leaders as St. Bandera and other.. Theey tries to show that the whole time that Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union they were trying to become independent Ukrainian state.. But histotical  facts are showing to us some another history. That Badera was collaborating with Nazi and he was helping them... But it's another history, it wasn't my topic..
In Poland the siituation is more difficult. First it that fact that Poland never was a part of the Soviet Union. It was  occupied by the USSR army, and it has it's own government but have to comply to Moscow. The residents of Poland, honestly, even today hate everything that is connected with Russia. There were a lot of organizations that were fighting for the independence, but it was impossible. You should remember Szare szeregi, AK, NIE and other..
And, finally, Byelorussia. You know, it is the only country that doen't try to write it's own history or to rewrite as it's common in Ukraine and Russia. They know a lot of great and sad moments in the history of the Soviet Union and they admit it. They understand that it was such priod in the history.. It's very unsual, comparing all the previos countries.. And, you know, you can meet people, who are proud about that fact that the USSR is their past.. It's amazing!
I think the reasons of such  differences could be explained by the politics of the each country. Russia always was trying to show how great power it has. Ukraine is seeking for it's own way, and now tha nationalistic parties and groups become more popular, so it could be normal.. Poland as a European country, now the EU member tries to forget that history. Only the Byelorussia, even that there's a difficult situation in the country tryes to hold that ideas of the SU and bring them to life..

Music that made my day

I remember, I've said that in this blog I'll try to write some analytics and other stuff, that could seem to be interesting and kind.
But today it would be an exception.
I was surfing a little in the Internet, trying to find new music and.. I've met him.
It's rare moments when music can bring such feelings.. It's hard to explain.
I think you'll love it.

Job or study?

You know what - whole my life I was dreaming to meet people who'll become my true firends, who'll help me in different situations. Now I'm happy to admit, that I have such friends.
As I've written before, currently I'm student of the 5th year at the university. Mainly in this year I heve to write my Master's paper and do some research. Knowing all this stuff, my friends proposed me a job in the international corporation. In sum, this work seems to be easy' cos my work will be to find the people, who're looking for the job, make some phone interview with them and then send their CV to the companies. And all this stuff will be in Russin.
As I'm Russian native speaker, it won't be hard work for me but I'm a little bit afraid, that this work would disturb my study. On the other hand - it's a great opportunity for me to get some experience, during my study..
So this two weeks I'm a little bit nervous. I really don't know what to do. I want to have experience, and to earn some more money than my scholarship affords me. But I also want in the next year to go to the PhD studies..
So I'm in such strange situation. Honestly, nothing disturbs me to take this job for some month, 3 or 4. And than I can fire. I'm free person.. Or I can even not get this job' cos only on the next week I'll have the conversation there. (but the reality is so, that there is not a lot of Russian speakers here in Cracow, so I'm sure for 68% that I'll get the job).
 So it is. I should decide.. I've never been in such situation before, and it's hard for me. But my friends encourage me to get the job so now I really don't know what to do...