One month has already passed since  Gleb arrived in Canada. How is he holding on? What is he involved in ?
To tell the truth, his social calendar is pretty busy. 3 week ends he spent with Gavin’s family doing lots of activities: camping on Red Streak camping grounds near Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, three [...]

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Listen : Anna German, Dancing Euridikas
Gavin’s sister Margaret visits the ballet school since she was little. Now she is fourteen. She has got her passion in life, different from her brothers and Gleb. This is her photo when she is dancing a role of a boy in the recent performance.
Ballet is ephemeral, like a piece [...]

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Upon arrival the first thing Gleb did was to call to his friend Gavin. Two G’s met each other the next day, on George’s Birthday celebration, Gavin’s younger brother. 16 children came to visit with that family. Poor little Kathy, lady of the house! How could she handle them? But, actually, she did, and with [...]

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First time my grandson came to Canada three years ago in 2006. We walked at Sunridge Mall pssing by various shops and stalls. Out of the blue Gleb looked at one of the shop windows and said:”Granny, I want to look at Japanese Samurai warriors”. “O”kay”, I answered.
We came in. It was a Games Workshop, [...]

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Today I am having in my workshop two unusual toys for children: a horse and a girl. Janko is sitting next to me and telling me and you his story from early сhildhood: It was just an after war time. Hard times anywhere; we lived then in Delsoon, Quebec. We had 500 hens and about [...]

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“Rails-Ties, Rails-Ties,
Which make a long track,
Up on it, running, running,
The train oh! so late, and ever so funny!
“Why funny?” asks Nanny,
‘Cause of its last car,
The peas were rolling out,
To meet a boy scout.
The cackling Hens, frolicking and playing,
Came and ate all the peas.
Then Ducks went to,
And grazed in the grass.
After the Snakes were slithering,
Ate up [...]

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