Shrovetide / Maslenitsa Slavs have a wonderful holiday - Maslenitsa. Usually it occurs at the end of winter and lasts a whole week! All this time people have fun, go to each other's house and eat pancakes in large quantities! On the central squares arrange mass festivities with songs and dances! At the end of the holiday, the scarecrow of Winter is taken out and burned at the stake Below, I attached photos from our Shrovetide holiday this year

The story about how we helped build the house I have friends. They live in a neighboring village among forests and lakes for 6 years already. In their spare time they build an unusual house. The walls of the house are built in the old way from a mixture of straw and clay. This mixture is called "Saman". All the ingredients of the mixture are poured into a large container, filled with water and trampled barefoot to the state of plasticine. On weekends we visited them and helped plaster the walls. After work we drank tea from a samovar

Amazing island of Jarylgach Finally, this long-awaited day has come! Tickets for the train were bought, backpacks and equipment were manned! We went on a high-speed train late at night, and the next day we woke up in the city of Kherson! We found the bus station here, took the bus and drove to the Black Sea. On the way, I saw huge fields of watermelons and melons from the window of my bus. Kherson region is in the south of Ukraine and is famous for its sweet watermelons, peaches and grapes. We arrived in the city of Skadovsk! This city is built on the seashore, and it has a seaport! We relocated to the ship and set off on the road by sea! On the way, we fed the seagulls and watched the multi-colored jellyfish! After an hour and a half we saw two beacons on the horizon. This was the island Dzharylgach! The largest uninhabited island in Europe! To be continued )))