Kyiv Polytechnic is incredible youth center, which attracts talented and ambitious individuals. Years of training contribute to their maturity, professional development and implementation of the most unexpected dreams.
Two charming graduates from NTUU"KPI" are now known throughout the travel community - Anna Morozova and Maria Handus more than four months are hitchhiking around the world. One of the latest messages from them: we have passed the way to more than 20,000 kilometers from our native Kiev, from which we left on October, 14 last year, crossed Russia - Kazakhstan - China - Laos - Vietnam - Cambodia - Thailand - Malaysia. From our total budget we spent about $700 for two. We have visited more than 40 cities, have met many people and situations which somehow influenced the way of our travel.
How do girls have decided on such an adventure? Anya says: "Two things I know about myself since childhood: I want to write and to travel. With the first position everything was clear: I was a star in the writing school essays for myself, classmates and some people from other classes. I have been writing for competitions and contests, there was something which I periodically won and collected prizes, like stars in the shoulder straps. With the second one to 18 years was complete stagnation.
On the one hand, I did everything to be exemplary daughter who is not afraid to look into scool diary and show off to your friends (I now have the status of a leper and dissident), on the other - reading out to the holes the novels of Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson and Haggard sown in young soul the desire to travel. I would like parents to be proud of me and at the same time did not want to conform to the image of decorous, which they themselves drew.
When I was 17, I realized that if I'm going to continue to "listen to the Pope and not to upset my mother," everything will end before it begins. I went to Kiev, and giving up the slack, entered the Physics and Engineering faculty of KPI rather than journalis. I studied, survived in a hostel, moonlighted and have not thought too much about the day to come, and I was happy. And as soon as I turned 18, I rushed to the Visa Office to get a passport. I will never forget the feeling when I first took it into my hands, happiness and joy filled me to the brim.
And then my dad has promised to send me to Prague. But, as always, with the reservation. I had to get five in Physics. Imagine "5" in physics with the harsh realities of the Bologna system, this is the total number of points from 133 to 140, received during the year. Therefore, it was impossible to take time off even once, and even make mistakes too. For six months I worked as a convict, and as a result by some miracle won 137 out of 140, snatching a single five between all students. Dad was proud, Prague conquered.
Just step outside of the native country, being in a new environment, among other people, language and culture, all in me came to life and began to seethe. I began actively to "ride" on foreign conferences, master hitchhiking Ukraine, Belarus and Russia subsequently, then Europe. Parents saw my excellent grades, scholarships, honors, and were quiet. "
Being a student, Anna visited 24 countries, and marked the end of study in the university by a trip to India. A year later, in social networks her ad for mates for the world tour was appeared.She developed route and calculated funds. A month before the "start" it turned out that his comrades, for whatever reasons, do not go. At the last minute a good friend Masha Handus agreed to go. She had just graduated and her traveling experience includes working in the BEST Kyiv (KPI is one of the most powerful of its cells) and a lot of travel in Ukraine and the world.
Later, Maria will share her impressions: "Every day of travel - unpredictable. Sometimes drivers picked us up immediately, and sometimes we had to wait for the car all night. Sometimes, treated so that the tables were set up, but it happened that at the dinner were only stale bread and raisins, which good people gave us. And people also are so good: they gave us food, money, clothes, tickets for trains and buses, paid for the hotel. And we stay overnigh in a very different places: in smart homes and backyards, in houses on stilts and just on the rocks, in the Buddha temple, and at the club, and on the dance floor. Sometimes weo ride in old cars and sometimes in posh jeeps with massage chairs, in large wagons, sleeping buses, in back of a pickup and usual mopeds. "
Fragile young creatures, traveling the world with backpacks, especially cherished Ukrainian passports and were absolutely sure that after all adventures they will be go back to Kiev. In the clothing and equipment they used blue and yellow colors and Ukrainian symbolism. But back to travel. The girls were amazed by the "unreal scale boundless Russia, where almost a week without stopping they went by its territory and crossed only the half of it." Steppe of Kazakhstan with the deep sky, incredible mountains and lakes, they fall in love with them forever. Populous China met them by unknown Uighur, then passage from west to east, from north to south, which left hundreds of photos of Ukrainians on the phones of its citizens and taught pass to paid sites for free. Lovely Laos hit the pristine beauty of the mountains and honest lives of ordinary peasants. The travelers' blended well at a dinner party steep casino playing major role foreigners. "In Vietnam, the girls were lucky to meet and play ping-pong with a living legend - the first country astronaut. They managed to get to the reburial ceremony, rural traditional wedding and try himself as a bartender at an expensive resort.
The adventurers left the traces of their travel on the pages of social networks, and websites devoted to travel. They are interested in the events in Ukraine and in the world, deeply sympathize with an opposition on Maidan. In February, their report on the revolution in Thailand, coincided in time and in nature with ukrainian protests was reprinted by dozens of publications. "... The world is staggering two revolutions in Thailand and Ukraine. And here and there, there is fierce battle between the opposition and the government, and here and there, there are victims. Our events on Independence - is the peak, the top of the iceberg, which is seen on the muddy waters of the ocean of corruption, lies and injustice that overwhelmed the country. Another part of it is not so noticeable from the outside - it is talking in the kitchen, there are millions of tweets and hundreds of thousands of posts on Facebook. Ukraine hardly find people who are really indifferent to the events taking place on the main area of the country. But Thailand different. If you leave Bangkok - sleepy, eternal siesta. Thai imagination and ingenuity knows no bounds in all that relates to recreation and earning from tourists. "
Further, our adventurers are planning to visit Australia and South America. Until we meet again.