Glieb, 15 years old

»I came with my father and one of my brothers from Luhansk to Kyiv fifteen months ago, but my mother and my little brother stayed there.
My father said that it would be better to go away and at first we thought only for a few months, but now it just happened that we have not gone back. I talk via Skype each day with my mother and she says that she's fine and she's afraid to depart from Luhansk, but I don't know why.
So I'd already come to Kyiv before the war began and therefore I didn't directly notice much of the war. In Kyiv I visit a school, I now have Ukrainian lessons besides all other subjects. I always try to do my homework quickly because I have dance training every day and also theater training once a week.
I think that I have more friends here than before in Luhansk. I don't speak with my old friends from Luhansk anymore, because it does not interest me and we have nothing in common. At first, the contact with my old friends was still okay, but now it really does not interest me. Of course, I still talk to my mother in Luhansk.
I don't know what makes me really happy and I'm afraid of nothing. In the beginning I was afraid that I couldn't go back any longer, but not anymore now.
Nevertheless, I miss Luhansk, where I went to school and spent a lot of time. And I miss my old dance teachers. I speak with them in social networks and they still continue the training and competitions, though far less children are participating now as many have left.
Often I have a particular dream: I'm dreaming that I do parachute jump with a school friend who came to Kyiv with me and that we would fly. That's all.
Professionally, I would like to work as a choreographer or theater trainer hence I have been dancing for four years now and did acrobatics previously.«

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