Once upon a time in Omsk airport

Hello my dear readers!

Today I want to tell you a funny story I experienced this night. It can be read by children, no worries)) I behave well, at least in the blog I write.

Ok, it happened that my mum was flying from Moscow to Omsk (where I am situated now) and it was very inconvenient time, around 5am which is too bad for waking up and making some fun, but hey…it’s always a good time to make fun, no matter when!:)

So…me and my family decided to make a surprise for her, meeting at the airport while she didn’t expect us to do so and I also printed a poster with her “kind of nickname” which doesn’t make sense at all and it’s really funny (I believe people who read it there were thinking “who is this person with such a name??” Anyway, when we came to the airport we realised there were few cameras from different TV channels. I thought that the information about me visiting the place spread out. However, it’s strange and hard to believe but those cameras were waiting not for me and not even for my mother!

My excitement was increasing with every second being there and I should say we stayed in the waiting area for quite a while, trying to guess who is this celebrity coming over. Also, I was blaming myself for not wearing the best dress I had and make up, not going to a stylist to make my hair done…And why I did not do it at 5am))) next time I will be ready for the show because the show must go on! 🙂

We met my mum, she actually passed me not realising I was her daughter (always knew that Moscow influences on people and changes them a lot and my lovely mother was not an exception, ahah – just kidding, I know a lot of loveliest people from the capital of Russia). So we did make this surprise all together and left the airport without understanding who was the “star” (apart from me, of course)).

And after some hours I watched the news and saw my pretty face (pretty because it was 5am, no make-up, not enough sleep, I would call it “the real beauty”)).  If the link works in other countries, you can see me here (GTRK-OMSK) http://gtrk-omsk.ru/news/detail.php?IBLOCK_ID=3&ID=127869&SECTION_ID=9 (right at the beginning of the report, in the white long jacket) 17 seconds of fame))). By the way, the journalists there were meeting Alexander Shlemenko (Storm) who is currently fighting in the Middleweight (Mixed Martial Arts) and is ranked as №8 middleweight in the world by Fight!Magazine. He was flying from the USA where he knocked Doug Marshall several days ago. I never thought I would write such information on my blog but as people say “pigs might fly”.

To be honest, I am not a fan of such a sport but it was good to get this knowledge and to be on TV looking like a zombie)) In addition to that, if I had more time for the preparation I would do a flashmob for my mum (we were thinking about making it real!). I can imagine how funny it would be….everyone is meeting this champion and I am dancing for my mother)).

What I wanted to say with this post? That even when I am extremely exhausted, dreaming about my bed, looking awful, I still enjoy my life, smiling and enjoying all the happenings around and I always see a miracle in small things. It was an ordinary meeting at the airport but somehow became a story to tell)) 

Wish you lots of of lovely surprises and interesting meetings, my dear readers!

 

From Italian to Seb Coe, from volunteering to the university, or woman’s logic as it is.

Dear and not dear (dearest)), ladies and not ladies (gentlemen, obviously), children and not children (grannies, grandpas), butterflies and others, hellooooooo!!!(why butterflies?? – woman’s logic as you know))

I know, I wasn’t here yesterday but I have an excuse for that. It was a lovely evening yesterday and I decided to go out for walking. I was listening to the radio “Westminster’s Cinderella” (it’s actually called BBC Radio 4, but I just like to call it in the way I like)) and then I suddenly I saw the UFO. We had a long conversation and it told me it needed some fuel and my blog post would be just great for the UFO so, I had to give up my post in order to help it. I personally, believe that it is a splendid excuse for not posting anything yesterday, on the day before Monday (sorry, I am just not sure about the spelling of Zuntey))).

Anyway, the sun is in the sky, the tube is in the underground, the Queen is on her throne chair, 76-year-old Berlusconi is with his 27-year old girlfriend, Mark Zuckerberg is in Facebook, and I am here, with you! All the things are right as they are supposed to be.

Today I am going to tell you some more things about my volunteering and prepare you for tomorrow.

Being one of the Selection Event Volunteers, I obtained such a great experience. I was interviewing all sorts of people with really different accents and attitudes. I also had some phone-interviews that were interesting for me. Once I needed to call to the country of pasta and speak with an Italian volleyball player who wanted to be a Games Maker. He couldn’t really speak English and I tried to rephrase every single question for him. That was hard. Afterwards I decided to learn Italian (in case I’ll meet someone like him) but after learning such words as “Ciao, Mafia, Macaroni, Buongiorno a tutti, Pizza” I gave up. I just thought those words were enough for a good communication. What is more, you can always explain something with your gestures)). Anyway,thinking of it seriously, it was pretty difficult to interview people in my second language and without any experience at all, but as we are talking about me, a student of  Public Relations course at the University of Westminster , who didn t just sit his time wearing out the seat of his trousers! At the uni we did learn how to present in front of people, how to listen to people and read between the lines, so that I could use that knowledge and unite theory and practices. The course did help me a lot that time.

I went to different parties with all my lovely SEVs. I had an opportunity to see the Olympic Stadium on TV (joking – I actually saw it in real life in February 2012 before it was opened for public). I even had a tour guide who explained me a lot of interesting things like how to eat an apple without using your hands, how to climb on the mountain Everest while sleeping, etc.)).

In addition to all of that, I had a chance to see Sebastian Coe staying just some meters away from me. We had our special volunteering day while visiting the Olympic Park and the Lord came there to talk to us. It was incredibly inspirational. I almost cried. I am still thankful to him so much.

To change the subject, tomorrow I am going to surprise you a bit. Not like I am going to dance naked and record myself. No, I am not. Also, I am not going to tell you that there is life in Mars. I am definitely not going to tell you that there will be +999C on the 21^st of December as I am not a weather girl. BUT, but, but – I will share with you some crazy stuff what my coursemates did and I really hope you’ll love it, so please stay with me! I’ll surprise you, my dears!!

Bye-bye…