Individual assignments, mixing classes, “dates” with the teacher and fundraising instead of extortion - American schools are very different from what we are used to at home. My son is in third grade in a public school in the Fairfax County School District (Virginia). Some…

During all the time I lived, studied and worked in the USA, I understood one simple thing - Ukrainians have no reason to have an inferiority complex. Neither individuals nor society. It’s not that I myself suffer from this, but I have seen manifestations of it many times...

Never before have I seen so many homeless people, and as different as in Santa Monica, a suburb of Los Angeles. A stately middle-aged man asks for money at a crossroads. A young woman, who looks like an ordinary student, sleeps on a bench in the park. An elderly woman laid out next to her ...

During a trip to California, I stopped by to look at the Facebook headquarters town. There are no excursions as such, but if you have a friend among the staff, you can get inside. The city of Palo Alto, where the company is located, is about an hour's drive from San Francisco (35 minutes without traffic jams, ...

This year, on TV screens all over the world, you can see how Americans save not only children and property, but also pets from hurricanes, sometimes carrying dogs and cats in their arms, standing in the water up to their waist, like something the most expensive that ...

The first of September is an ordinary day in an American school. School starts at different times in different school districts, but on that first day, no matter what date it falls on (for example, my child started school on August 28th),…

I gave birth to a child shortly after moving to the USA, when I worked for Voice of America. According to the law, I had three months of parental leave, but by organizing a relay race from the closest relatives, I managed to leave the child at home until 6 months, after ...

Typically, Ukrainians who immigrate to the US do not have too much difficulty adapting. Hardworking and observant, we find both work and friends. We know how to organize into large and active diaspora communities. But very often the “mental cockroaches” brought with them are work habits and...

American men are more and more involved in cooking and less and less regard it as a purely female business. Daddy, who can not only barbecue on Independence Day, but also cook dinner in the middle of the week is not such a rare animal, although from this ...

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, became the gateway to America for me. For a month I did an internship on local television. Everything was new: food, air, duties, colleagues, friends. My brain simply did not have time to process information in time. Although the living conditions were excellent ...