It’s time to get on with summing up everything I missed to write here during March.
About traveling. During a week at the beginning of the month I had a ski vocation with my co-workers and my beloved wife. The brief photo report is here. Besides having fun skiing and teaching my wife to ski, I celebrated there my 24th birthday. My cell phone didn’t work because there weren’t any convenient automatic roaming. Since I was cut off, I’d like to apologize for not receiving your, my dear friends, greeting SMSs.
About culture. When I came back to Kiev, I received an invitation to attend an opening night of the film in which was shoot by my school mate, and good friend. This film has its own page on the lj - S Taburetom do Okeanu (To the ocean with a stool). The film has been shot during the non-profit journey through Eastern countries like Mongolia, China, India (7 countries) of an amateur theater which was performing in different places and for different people. The genre described by authors is a musical-documentary with some humor. I consider this outstanding movie as the most astonishing masterpiece of the year.
About job. I’ve been substituting my team lead, who went to the Java conference provided by TheServerSide for two weeks. Its a great experience, because I’m participating in the project development in a much more extent. I become involved in project planning, team handling and recruiting process. There are more responsibility, but more excitement as well. I experienced being from the other side of the wall - being interviewing somebody else. In other words, I was inspired by this temporary role a lot.
About cuisine. This month I tasted a delicious Ukrainian soup poured into the hollow bread. Eating this soup you don’t need an additional bread, because you are scraping the “bread plate” with your spoon from inside. For a dessert I had a fancy cake served on a plate which was painted with jam and liquid chocolate.
About family. March 23th was our first significant major date in our family life. This day we were celebrating a half a year of our marriage. We went to a Susi bar and ate various sea food. It was quite delicious, but expensive of course. Parents made a present for us - silk decorated bedclothes, and now I feel myself as a Duke:)
About education.
Finally, I managed to visit LSE to get my FCE certificate. Also, I arranged getting an JSDP certificate as my self-development goal at work for the next quarter.
About sport.
Thanks to my friend me and my class-mates from the University went together to the park to roller-skate. I hadn’t skating on my old true Rollerblades for a year, and it was a fantastic happening. In spite of having only three roller-skates, everybody from us tried it on the ground.
About pets.
I bought a cat hair glove, which make cat hair dressing quicker and safer for me. It looks like a worker glove with rubber pins which gather old hair.
