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Hello dear friends and readers of my blog. In a month it will be exactly two years since I came to our Steemit`s family. During this time, a lot of events happened in my life. Without exaggeration, I can say that most favorable events were influenced by Steemit. Over the past year, I and my family have greatly improved our way of life. I, my husband and our two children lived in the city of Kiev (the capital of Ukraine) a year ago.

In the photo I and my husband. Western Ukraine. Ski resort Bukovel.

In the photo I and my children. Western Ukraine. Ski resort Bukovel.

In the photo I and my family. We pass adventures in the quest room. We are prisoners and must find a way out of prison. We made it.

My very first photo for Steemit. Me and my kids. July 18, 2016.

We lived in the same apartment with other relatives. This caused everyone a lot of inconvenience. Every day was very stressful. Thanks to Steemit, a year ago we left the city of Kiev forever and left to live in Transcarpathia in the city of Uzhhorod. Now this is our home. We love our city. In the spring we have cherry blossoms and a linden alley on the bank of a mountain river Uzh. There are a lot of beautiful sights in Uzhgorod. The most famous are: Uzhhorod Castle, pedestrian bridge and sakura. Also I like mini-sculptures that are almost all over the city in different places. The search for such mini-sculptures here is called a quest for tourists. We found almost all the figures. From time to time enthusiasts install new sculptures.

The city of Uzhhorod. Spring 2018. Sakura blooming.

The city of Uzhhorod. The open-air museum "The Old Village". My husband and children.

The city of Kiev. I, the husband and the son.

Hungary. The city of Nyiregyhaza. 2018 year.

About me:
My name is Irina. I was born on September 20, 1986 in the Kharkov region, an urban village of Kovsharovka. In previous posts, I talked about my homeland. There I spent my happy childhood years up to the fourth grade. At the age of 11 my mom moved me to Russia to the city of Moscow. There we lived for several years, while my mom did not buy an apartment in the city of Kharkov (Ukraine). In Kharkov, I spent a teenage period, graduated from 11 classes and went to the city of Kiev for admission to a higher educational institution. According to the sign of the horoscope, I'm Virgo, was born in the year of the tiger. On a flower horoscope I am aster. My favorite color is olive. My favorite dessert is Napoleon cake. My favorite food is chicken and salad olivier. My favorite film is the Green Mile.

Transcarpathia. The city of Mukacheve. 2018 year. I. Walk.

Transcarpathia. The city of Berehove. 2018 year. I. Birch Grove at the Chizay Winery.

Transcarpathia. The city of Uzhhorod. 2017 year. My children. Feast of forestry.

Hungary. The city of Nyiregyhaza. 2018 year.

Job:
My first job came to me during the summer vacation after the ninth grade. I then wanted to help my mother, because it was hard for her alone to raise me and my brother. For three months I worked as a distributor in the large Barabashovo market. I got a job from my mother's friend. After the tenth grade for the summer vacation period, I also went to work. This time I got a job as a waiter in a park city cafe. In the period from 2004 to 2007 already in the city of Kiev I was the secretary of one of the public organizations. To date, I am a private entrepreneur and head of the family business.

Eastern Ukraine. Kharkov region. 2018 year. My husband pretends that he is homeless.

Western Ukraine. The city of Yaremche. Rocks of Dovbush. My husband pretends that he is a troll and amuses our children.

Western Ukraine. The city of Yaremche. Rocks of Dovbush. Me and my kids.

Hungary. The city of Nyiregyhaza. 2018 year.

A family:
I am a happy wife and mother. I have a wonderful husband @artem-sokoloff and two charming children. My daughter's name is Olga @camomile, she will turn 12 in a month. My son's name is Dmitry @black-stork, in two months he will be 10 years old. We really like to spend time together. We have a lot of walking and traveling. My husband always helps me with everything. My husband is a very cheerful person and always likes to joke. Especially he likes to joke when I want to take a picture of him. We are always together.

Transcarpathia. September 1, 2017 My daughter and my son go to school in Uzhgorod for the first time.

Western Ukraine. Summer of 2017. The highest mountain in Ukraine: Goverla, 2061 meters above sea level.

Hungary. The city of Nyiregyhaza. 2018 year.

Hobby:
Most of all I like to cook. I always experiment with recipes or create new ones. I also like crocheting, writing poetry and prose. A year ago I became an amateur collector. I collect everything that an owl will depict. I also like karaoke, although I do not really know how to sing. It's fun. In the days of the popularity of wap-sites, I studied php.

In these photos, one of the first dishes I prepared for Steemit.

Travel and Photography:
Since the moment we started to travel, I discovered a love for photography. Most of all I like to photograph nature and emotions. I really like macro photography, but so far I do not have a professional camera. All my photos I make on the iPhone SE. I hope that in the near future I can get a good camera. We started traveling a year ago. We traveled all over Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Mukachevo, Berehove, Yaremche, Bukovel, Zhitomir, Belaya Tserkov, Chernigov. Over the past two months we visited Kharkov (eastern Ukraine), Slovakia and Hungary.

Meeting the New Year 2018. Mountain ski resort Bukovel.

Slovakia. 2018 year. Zemplinskaya Shirava.

Slovakia. 2018 year. Zemplinskaya Shirava.

Our friends:
For all our time on Steemit we have a lot of friends. All friends from different cities of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. We conducted several meetUp. The very first meetUp was held in the city of Lviv with our dear friends. The second meetUp was held in the city of Uzhhorod. MeetUp was dedicated to the jubilee of Steemit. I express my great gratitude to all who could come and all who could not come, but supported us all the time: @alla-kopica, @assasin, @bugavi, @cranium, @erikaflynn, @euggud, @hajevoy60, @inna-yatsuk, @kramarenko, @klepalka, @kostiayatsuk, @libriya, @mandarin2016, @molarity, @olga.maslievich, @paganlord, @prettysnake, @polyideic, @sgorenko, @tanata, @ uadigger, @yellow8submarine, @zirochka, @yoganarchista. Also I say thank you very much for the meeting and the gifts dear Tanya, who was able to approach the train on which we were traveling. It was a pleasure to meet you. I express my deep gratitude to the entire Ukrainian-Belarusian community. You are best.

Lviv. 2017 year. First MeetUp. @bugavi, @hajevoy60, @olga.maslievich, @camomile, @black-stork, @artem-sokoloff, @sokoloffa and the little princess Darinka.

Uzhgorod. 2018 year. Second MeetUp. @bugavi, @hajevoy60, @olga.maslievich, @camomile, @black-stork, @artem-sokoloff, @sokoloffa, @cranium and the little princess Darinka.

Gifts from our dear friend @erikaflynn. The train Uzhgorod - Lisichansk. Station Sumy.

Dear friends and followers. I hope you enjoyed my story. Follow me, read stories, travel with me. A lot of stories about cities and countries await you, interesting recipes and unusual food, about the wild corners of our planet. Thanks to each of you for the attention. Your Sokoloffa. Шановні друзі і послідовники. Я сподіваюсь вам сподобалась моя розповідь. Слідуйте за мною, читайте розповіді, подорожуйте разом зі мною. Попереду вас чекають багато розповідей про міста та країни, цікави рецепти та незвичайну їжу, про дикі куточки нашої планети. Дякую кожному з вас за увагу. Ваша Соколова.