Ukrainians about Poland. What do they think of our nation? Part II

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One Sunday she and her husband went for a walk to Wolski Forest.

– We had a small picnic with a sandwich and tea. I was happy to look not at my laptop, not at TV, not at the city, but at nature, at trees, at birds. And I was shocked, specified as walking, sports – e.g. running, cycling – is popular with Poles. Of course, sports are besides in Ukraine, but are not so popular. ***

– W I like Krakow very much that past is everywhere – This is Lera. – OK, erstwhile it's in a large city, but erstwhile the monuments of past are in all tiny city, it's a shock. What do these monuments look like? You Poles effort to keep them in a very good condition. The next thing I know, the museum. There are museums everywhere, in Ukraine too, but it's art, truly art, to make an interesting museum. There are many in Poland. I was at the Museum of Solidarity. I didn't know anything about "Solidarity", I just heard something, but erstwhile I saw it, I had everything in my head. I was at a museum in Katowice that tells the past of the city. It's great. I'm even planning to go to him again due to the fact that I didn't realize everything, read it and saw it. I was besides in Gdansk at the planet War II Museum. I was very impressed. I want all individual in Russia would go to a museum like this, draw any conclusions, and not say they want to do it again.

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Great plus for Poland for free studies. – We don't have that in Ukraine. There are any free places, but only those who learn well can get them. Each another must pay money, and the cost of studying depends on the specialty [course of study]. However, even for money, the quality of studies is not as advanced as in Poland. I learned well at school, I had and I have any ambition now, I wanted to survey not in Mariupol, somewhere in a bigger city, in a better university, any good specialty, I couldn't, due to the fact that it just cost besides much.

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Nice surprise – buying malls. – During my second journey to Poland we went on a journey to Oświęcim, to the concentration camp. We wanted to eat something, we started looking for a place, and it turned out that there was KFC and even McDonald’s in Oświęcim. Why does it matter? due to the fact that there was no McDonald in Mariupol due to the fact that the war was very close and KFC only opened in Kharkov. The Oświęcim KFC venue was located in the mall. Right next to Lera, she saw a H&M clothing store. – At the time, he was a symbol of Europe. And he wasn't in Ukraine. Meanwhile, here he stood in a very tiny town.

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Polish towns are a revelation to Lera. – It always seemed to me that if the city had so fewer inhabitants, then, as in Ukraine, alternatively not a city, but a village. In the east of Ukraine, erstwhile you drive through these cities, you see there's nothing there. There are single-family buildings, any main street, a tiny market, tiny shops. Could be a pizzeria, a local restaurant, a school, a kindergarten, that's all. With this image in Lera's head she visited Krzeszowice. – Very friendly, very cool looking, all renovated. You can see that residents in Krzeszowice live, not only sleep and go to work in Krakow, Katowice. They're evidently doing something here. What are these blocks in Krzeszowice? Renovated, lawns around them. It always impresses me. You walk by them to get from downtown to the station and feel like a park. There's quite a few restaurants, candy stores. It was raining, so we decided to have coffee in the bakery. There were no seats, you should have waited. There were older men there, old ladies, drinking coffee on Sunday morning, eating cookies and talking. It's large that older people can't just sit at home, watch the window, or watch tv like my grandma does. In Krzeszowice there is simply a stadium, modern kindergarten, cycling routes. I am very impressed with what tiny Polish cities look like, that these are not any shithole where you don't want to live, where you want to go. Lera dreams of an flat or a tiny home in a akin place. That thought is fresh to her. – erstwhile I lived in Ukraine, I never thought about going to a tiny town. But now that I see how tiny cities can look, I look at it from a different perspective.