Hey, my name is Olha Yevsihnieieva and I was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1999.

🎈What's your motivation to come for the project?
It's a difficult question. I think I'm here to meet new people, to get better at English, and most importantly to help refugees, to help them communicate, maybe find a job...

Do you study?
No, I got my bachelor and master in translation already in 2021.

What was your dream job when you were little?
When I was 3 years old I wanted to become an Olympic winner in swimming, and when I was 7, I wanted to become a surgeon.

What was your favorite subject in 🏫school?
English and Chemistry. Why Chemistry? It worked for me and I used to like to do experiments.

What is your favorite sport?
Yoga and I have a love and hate relationship with biathlon. I llove it because I like to shoot an air rifle and I hate it because when it's on TV, my grandparents swear and yell at the TV while I'm watching it.

What sort of after-school/out-of-school clubs did you attend?
I used to like dancing, but it didn't go very well. It took me 2 years to realize that I hate it. Bow shooting.

What is your favorite 🎵music?
I am a melomane. But I like different types of music like pop, rock, indie. Idk, I listen to everything.

Do you have siblings? How many, are they older or younger? Who are you closest to in your 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦family?
Luckily no. I'm closest to my mum.

What is your definition of 😀“happiness”?
Being with people I love and spending time with my family.

What is your most memorable 🚌travel experience?
When I went to Poltava, it's a very beautiful city, there are many trees and rivers... I went there with my mum to see this summer house built by the Swiss during the war. They left there some swiss clothing, and it was very hard to get there. It looks like a small hill, and it's very steep when you come closer. When we finally managed to get there, we found the correct road, and it was hilarious. Also, there were many snakes.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
Watching TV series, reading books, talking to my friends.

What is your greatest fear?
I'm not afraid of dark or spiders or stuff like that. But I'm afraid of losing someone unexpectedly.

What is your greatest hope?
I hope we will solve these ecological issues.

What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
Trust your guts.

Hey, my name is Anahit Vahramyan and I was born in Gyumri, Armenia in July 31, 2000.

🎈What's you motivation to come for the project?
To get more skills, more experience, to discover new places in Europe, make new friends, and improve my English.

Do you study?
Yes, I graduated from translation English-Armenian.

What is your dream job?
I want to be a famous and professional actress in Hollywood.

What was your favorite subject in 🏫school?
I really liked English and History.

What is your favorite sport?
I like watching football, but not playing it, and I love to do gymnastics.

What sort of after-school/out-of-school clubs did you attend?
English clubs, mentoring trainings, piano lessons, and I was also a leader of movie club. I'm volunteering already more than 3 years. I volunteered as an English teacher in a kindergarten, than I started to volunteer in @, my sending organization, and I was also a mentor in mentoring centre. Last time I volunteered during Covid to help the people in need.

What is your favorite 🎵music?
I like jazz, but I listen to all the genres.

Do you have siblings? How many, are they older or younger? Who are you closest to in your 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦family?
I have one younger sister and I think I have it opposite, whole family is close to me.

What is your definition of 😀“happiness”?
To be always in a positive mood.

What is your most memorable 🚌travel experience?
Georgia, because I visited many of their castles and I saw other country's national heritage.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
I always watch movies, I'm a big fun. I love to walk alone as well, or having good time with my friends.

If you could possess one superpower, what would it be?
To teleport.

What is your greatest fear?
To lose myself. And.. I'm afraid of electricity. 🙂

What is your greatest hope?
I hope there will be no war in the world.

What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
To never give up. Try to find new ways, new interests and never look back because the best is waiting for you in the future.

Hey, my name is Şeyma Rabia Arpaci and I was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1996.

🎈What's your motivation to come for the project?
I want to learn about new cultures, create new friends, and learn languages.

Do you study?
I graduated from international relations with a bachelor's degree.

What is your dream job?
It's a difficult question. One day I wake up and I want to be an actress, and another I want to be a different thing. But in general I want to wake up and have a smile on my face while doing something good. I would like to find something in social area.

What was your favorite subject in 🏫school?
English, music and politics.

What is your favorite sport?
Swimming, football and yoga.

What sort of after-school/out-of-school clubs did you attend?
Many. I grew up in the clubs. In event club I was an organizer, language club, theater club, Latin dancing club, camping club. I was doing a lot of things.

What is your favorite 🎵music?
Techno, deephouse, EDM, and from time to time metal.

Do you have siblings? How many, are they older or younger? Who are you closest to in your 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦family?
I have one younger sister, and I'm closest to her.

What is your definition of 😀“happiness”?
Happiness comes from your inside. Everything starts with loving yourself in every condition.

What is your most memorable 🚌travel experience?
This summer, me and my friends travel through the coast of Turkey and we discovered a lot of beautiful places.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
Discovering new places, traveling, dancing, and swimming.
If you could possess one superpower, what would it be?
Flying.

What is your greatest fear?
I have two of them, snakes in the closet, and the thieves.

What is your greatest hope?
Seeing all of the people in the world sleep happy.

What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
In every condition, you should believe in yourself. Maybe you have lots of friends and family but you are here alone. You have great power in yourself more than you imagine.

Hey, my name is Ugur Can Abanuz and I was born in Izmir, Turkey 22. May 1998.

🎈What's your motivation to come for the project?
My motivation is learning new cultures, improving my English, and making new friendships.

Do you study?
I studied gastronomy and I would like to be a chef.

What is your dream job?
I don't have a dream job to do.

What was your favorite subject in 🏫school?
I liked literature and philosophy.

What is your favorite sport?
I don't like doing any sports but I like watching football, basketball or tennis. I love to watch Olympics.

What sort of after-school/out-of-school clubs did you attend?
I din't attend any of them

What is your favorite 🎵music?
I like punk, rock. I love Madrugada from Norway.

Do you have siblings? How many, are they older or younger? Who are you closest to in your 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦family?
I have one older sister and one older brother and I think I'm closest to my sister.

What is your definition of 😀“happiness”?
When you have inner peace. I don't need anything else than inner peace.

What is your most memorable 🚌travel experience?
I think it was my Erasmus exchange in Bratislava. It was my first time abroad, and it was an unforgettable experience for me.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like reading books or watching movies.. surfing on the internet..
If you could possess one superpower, what would it be?
Saving people.

What is your greatest fear?
I have a fear of heights.

What is your greatest hope?
More equal World.

What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
Whatever happens, life will continue.

What's your name, and where were you born?
Hey, I'm Truphena Kibagendi and was born in Kisii, 🇰🇪Kenya.
🎈What's you motivation to come for the project?
I would like to learn new intercultural skills that will help me to enhance my career.

Do you study? What is your dream job?
I'm an 🇬🇧English teacher. I finished college. I'm focusing education sector and I would like to make people realize their dreams and create an impact through education.

What was your favorite subject in 🏫school?
English and Swahili.

What is your favorite sport?
I love watching ⚽️football, and 🏈rugby. I used to play 🏐volleyball until I broke my leg and I stopped.

What sort of after-school/out-of-school clubs did you attend?
I participated in Lion's club and I was a volunteer in charity work, HRC - Health Rescue Center where we were impacting 👦young people by motivating them to enrich their education. E.g.: We talk to young girls and help them go back to school as it's not common in our society that girls are studying.

What is your favorite 🎵music?
RNB, rumba, country music.

Do you have siblings? How many, are they older or younger? Who are you closest to in your 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦family?
I have 2 older and 1 younger brother and 1 older and 1 younger sister. I'm closest to my younger sister. She is the most strict person I know and as well the most open to me.

What is your definition of 😀“happiness”?
To see people that love me being happy.

What is your most memorable 🚌travel experience?
When I got to my birthday with my friends. Every year we go to a new place that we haven't been to before.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like 🥾hiking and watching movies.
If you could possess one superpower, what would it be?
To visit my future.

What is your greatest fear?
I fear death and failure.

What is your greatest hope?
That we all go to heaven, that I make it in life and that my stay in 🇸🇰Slovakia is going to be awesome.

What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
During the COVID pandemic, when I lost my job, to take life as it goes because tomorrow is not guaranteed.

What's your name, and where were you born?
I'm Cristina and I'm from Ribadesella de Asturias, 🇪🇸Spain.

What's your motivation to come for the project?
🤔I finished my uni and I was living with my parents for the last 6 months and I got tired of that so I needed a change, a new, environment, new people. I love meeting people from different countries and I missed that.

Do you study? What is your dream job?
No, I finished my UNI of 🇬🇧English study and 🇪🇸Spanish as a second language. My dream job could be some job regarding international relationships.

What was your favorite subject in school?
English but when I was a child it was 🎵music.

What is your favorite sport?
All of them. ⚽️🏀🏈⚾️🥎🏐🎱

What sort of after-school/out-of-school clubs did you attend?
🏸Tennis and 🤾handball.

What is your favorite 🎵music?
Funky, soul, music form 70-80'ties.

Do you have siblings? How many, are they older or younger? Who are you closest to in your family?
I have a younger sister and I'm closest to her.

What is your definition of “happiness”?
To see people who love me that they are good and ☺️happy, that they feel relaxed and good.

What is your most memorable travel experience?
I have two: first one is my first flight to 🇨🇿Brno and the second one is the 10 months I spent through 🇪🇺Erasmus in 🇱🇹Lithuania where I visited lots of countries.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like listening to music, 📚reading, going for a 🚶‍♂️walk or just chilling, 🍳cooking.

If you could possess one super-human power, what would it be?
Teleportation.

What is your greatest fear?
To feel alone.

What is your greatest hope?
💗Happiness for everyone.

What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
There is always someone you can count on, If you help someone, people will help you. I can always learn something even from a bad situation.

The fourth volunteer I’m going to introduce is Rusa from wonderful and small Georgia. Enjoy.

What's you motivation to come for the project?
New environment, learning languages, experience of living with people of different nationalities, getting to know different cultures, discovering new worlds, at this stage of life I needed a new and interesting environment, I think I came to the right place at the right time.

Do you study? What is your dream job?
Yes, I think I will not stop studying at no point in my life.
Work ?! - where I will have constant and direct communication with people and help them in some direction.
I get pleasure from all kinds of sports. I love active life.

What was your favorite subject in school?
Georgian language. from a young age I love poems and the creative world in general.

What is your favorite sport?
I get pleasure from all kinds of sports. I love an active life.

What sort of after-school/out-of-school clubs did you attend?
I am interested in psychology as well as journalism, management, and codes. I have attended their trainings at different times, and I am still actively involved in similar trainings.

What is your favorite music?
I prefer songs that have endured for centuries. And I love songs from old Georgian movies.

Do you have siblings? How many, are they older or younger? Who are you closest to in your family?
Yes, I have two older sisters and one brother. I'm a little. I would especially highlight the relationship between my mother and me. Mother is an earthly angel to me.

What is your definition of “happiness”?
Mother's inflamed eyes for which you are the cause... Peace of mind... A smile from the heart... Happiness is in everything, we just have to learn to see and feel...

What is your most memorable travel experience?
Never go alone! Share it with someone, you will collect a lot of memories together. Take a camera, pen, and notebook with you where you will make notes.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
It can be anything that gives me happiness in that moment. Even if I dance like crazy. Most often at such times I either go or read a book.

If you could possess one super-human power, what would it be?
I will become a butterfly, the most colorful. I will use his three-day life, fly in the sky, travel the world, and then die like him.

What is your greatest fear?
Life without faith and hope.

What is your greatest hope?
Faith and mother.

What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
Cry when no one can see you and you need it. Smile, raise your head, and continue on your way forward. Master yourself, get used to it, make friends. Love your own smile.

Who are you and where are you from?
I'm 🙋Anna-Lena Sell and I'm from the small town of Buxtehude, 🇩🇪Germany. 

What was your favorite subject in school?
🎵Music I think because I like music and we often ate cookies in the class.

What is your favorite sport?
🐴Horseback riding and 🏃‍♀️running also relaxed walking and 🚴‍♀️cycling.

What sort of after-school/out-of-school clubs did you attend?
None. But I was playing in a kind of 🎙orchestra, doing music and doing nothing with my friends.

What is your favorite music?
I don't have favorite music, but I had 🤘pop/punk phase but I'm behind that (no i am not).

Do you study? What is your dream job?
I would like to study something in a social area. My dream job is something that I really like to do and earns me some money. Unfortunately, I do not know what that is yet.

Do you have siblings? How many, are they older or younger? Who are you closest to in your family?
Yes, two, younger brother and sister. I think I'm closest with my sister.

What is your definition of 🥰“happiness”?
Feeling in your body and your head and you are like vvvvvv, when you are content, feel really comfortable with yourself and your surroundings and you don't have to think, you are just happy.

What is your most memorable 🏖travel experience?
I went by bike along the German part of the Elbe river with my father and sister and also I was in London for one week which was very cool (seeing a musical was my highlight).

What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like to 📖read. And to do music. And of course to do stuff with my friends.

If you could possess one super-human power, what would it be?
Being invisible.

What is your greatest fear?
Yeah I do not know. I would like to know though.

🧙What is your greatest hope?
That we will not die because of climate change.

What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
You have to be 🦸‍♀️proactive, you have to do stuff yourself because no one else will do that for you.

Your KERIC team. 💚

I'm Tamar Julakidze and I was born in Ozurgeti, 🇬🇪Georgia.

What was your favorite subject in school?
Literature and history, because I love 📚reading and antiquities.

What is your favorite sport?
None, I'm not fond of sports, but sometimes it's nice to watch⚽️ football.

What sort of after-school/out-of-school clubs did you attend?
💃Dancing Georgian dances.

What is your favorite 🎶music?
Depends on my mood, but I enjoy the most listening to "Yellow leaves composition" by Giya Kancheli.

Do you study? What is your dream job?
I'm a bachelor of law but I'm not sure if being a lawyer is my dream job.

Do you have siblings? How many, are they older or younger? Who are you closest to in your family?
Yes, I have a younger brother, he is 20 years old and I'm closest to my 👵grandma, she is awesome.

What is your most memorable travel experience?
Slovakia is the first country that I visited, But I love to travel in 🇬🇪Georgia. The most memorable could be Akhaltsikhe, it is a very beautiful place to be.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
I love reading books, sewing, and drawing, but it's only my hobby.

If you could possess one super-human power, what would it be?
Reading thoughts.

What is your greatest fear?
💧Water.

What is your greatest hope?
There is not going to be a coronavirus next year.

What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
"Love spins the Earth", a quote from the book The First Garment by Guram Dochanashvili.

Hey, I'm Esther Eckstein, and I was born in Moedling, 🇦🇹Austria.

What was your favorite subject in school?
📡Math, because it was always easy and fun for me.

What is your favorite sport?
🏃‍♀️Running, I like to go for a run, 5-6 kilometers once or twice a week

What sort of after-school/out-of-school clubs did you attend?
It's not popular to do that in Austria. I was just 🐾hiking with my parent in my free time or playing with friends.

What is your favorite music?
RNB type, SZA, lots of JOJI🎵

Do you study? What is your dream job?
I don't know. I would like to be a 🛩pilot. But now it's not a stable industry so I'm just thinking about it.

Do you have siblings? How many, are they older or younger? Who are you closest to in your family?
Yes, I have an older sister, she is 20, and she lives in Berlin. The closest is my dog, she listens to all of my problems.

What is your definition of “happiness”?
Probably, when you feel like you can control your emotions, you feel happy because you feel calm🧘‍♀️. Also having good people around who give you energy.

What is your most memorable travel experience?
When I went to Peru with my friend whose dad is from there and we saw not the tourist places but how people really live there.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like running as I said before, knitting, making clothes, watching Netflix, and obviously going out.

If you could possess one super-human power, what would it be?
Teleportation.

What is your greatest fear?
🕷Spiders, they are disgusting.

What is your greatest hope?
That we will solve ☘️climate change because if not we will all die.

What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
My life hasn't been that long, I have to still learn lots of things, but my biggest lesson was to get help when you need it.