Volodymyr Andreiko
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The war and the people
It has to be said that what happened wasn’t anticipated. I vividly remember the news announcing the state of emergency. My parents and I started preparing our basement to act as a shelter, and my sister had evacuation training at school, where they would have to go to the nearest bomb shelter upon hearing the long bell or air siren.
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Higher education in Ukraine and Canada
My four years of higher education in Ukraine flew by quite fast. Last summer, I already had my bachelor’s degree in transla- tion, somehow managed to combine remote education in Ukraine while being in Canada and started going to University of Winnipeg at the same time.
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What’s post-Soviet life like?
Growing up in a post-Soviet country was an interesting experience. One of the things I remember is just how empty our apartment was.
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Life in Canada and Ukraine
Coming to Canada, I had many different expectations based on stereotypes about maple syrup, hockey, politeness and wearing shorts during snowstorms. Many of the things turned out to be quite true, but to my surprise, there were many other elements of this country I did not expect.
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Examining the English language
“How many languages you know, that many times you are a human being.”
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The issues of foreign psychology
Coming to Canada as a person from a Slavic country, my view of psychology was very different from how people here usually think of the discipline.