Anna Korovska 15, female from Buzova

Hello, my name is Anya. I am 15 years old and this year I will be a graduate of the 9th grade. In the future I see myself in marketing, I think it is an interesting and popular industry! I live in the Kyiv region in the city of Irpin, with my mother. She is 38, her name is Lyuda, before the war she worked as a sales manager in a large company. And now she works for the charity fund “To Ukraine With Love”, she helps affected people to get new accommodation with the help of donors from America.

My dad hasn’t lived with us for more than 10 years, he has another family, but I have a great relationship with them. His name is Vova, he is 40, he worked as an electrician, but from the first day of the war he stood up to defend our country, he is currently a soldier in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

My love and my joy is my cat Asya, she is 3 years old and she always sleeps with me, I am on one pillow, she is on the other pillow next to me. In general, before the war, we lived happily with my mother, traveled, and were engaged in the arrangement of a new house that we had been building for 12 years. I had my own room and my friends came to visit me all the time!
For 6 years I was dancing in the Jardin de la Danse studio, we went to competitions in Ukraine and abroad. We won first places and worked hard again in training for future victories. After the full-scale invasion began, our city was occupied and my family and I were forced to run away from the war with one backpack…

Later we found out that our house was destroyed by fire, and we had nowhere else to go, so we decided to seek shelter in Germany as refugees. I couldn’t live there, I couldn’t do my dancing, my studio… I wanted to come back to Ukraine permanently, so a year later we returned. Thanks to the “With Love to Ukraine” foundation and caring people from America, we were given a modular house where we live with my mother and cat now. We are very grateful! Our city suffered a lot during the war, but thanks to caring families from the United States, many people got new homes. Our city is recovering, and this inspires me to believe in victory.

I am very interested in how your life is going and how your studies are organized, I would really like to learn English and maybe find new friends. I am friendly and active, cheerful, kind, responsible. Sometimes it is difficult for my mother, but I am a teenager and I am growing up. The main thing is to be a good person and everything will work out.

I hope to see you soon!!!