Month: May 2023

February 24 I woke up in the morning around 4:50, l did not know what was going on, but l felt that something is wrong. I woke up because of the noise of bomb explosions, and Russian planes. I heard my father talking to his military friends. “The war started,” they said. I started panicking…
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Hey I’m Karina Tytorenko the exchange student from Ukraine in Texas! I’m with High school in the USA. I finished my essay today. In January of 2022, I could have never imagined I would be still in the United states and  that it would be unsafe for me to return back to Ukraine. I could…
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This day started positively in my family. It was a typical February 24th. My mother and I went to meet my sister, who came to visit us from Kharkiv. Around 4 a.m., we arrived home, nothing out of the ordinary. We went to sleep, I had to go to school next day, the adults to…
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–Danya’s Story– For Danya, a 7-year-old first grader from Chernyhiv, life changed overnight. February 23, 2022, Danya, as usual, did his homework; his mother packed him a lunch for school. And the next day, early in the morning of the 24th, his grandmother, who lives near the Russian border, called to say that there were…
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