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I saw that idea in some other place (actually in Solnitchka blog, which I stumbled upon through nomadlife), and decided to try myself - especially that today is 1st June, start of AI transition, new life approaching, and generally I just want to write this post finally, let's see if I find 100 things to tell :)

1. My name Sveta means "light", "light person"
2. I'm Russian
3. I was born in Lithuania, and I'm blond :)
4. When I was 3, my parents moved to Belarus, I grew up there, and I'm a citizen of Belarus
5. I speak Russian, Belarussian, English, understand Polish
6. I visited 22 countries and all continents, apart from Australia and Arctic
7. I plan to visit Australia and want to visit Arctic
8. I loved my last 6 years with AIESEC, in Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, and now in AI
9. My favorite color is green, mild-bright green
10. My favorite color of flowers is a combination of red, orange and yellow
11. A color of my eyes (which are something in between green, blue and grey) changes depending on the color of my closing
12. Best vacations in my life I spent in Egypt, first week of April this year
13. I love my parents, I realized it after some time after I started to live separately
14. I live by myself (not with my parents) for 8 years
15. City I liked most so far is London
16. I'm a stubborn person
17. I get offended easily, but try not to show it
18. Smile is my visit card they say
19. And my Russian accent is my distinguishing characteristic as well
20. A person who started to change attitudes in my life, and who helped to form my proactivity, is my best teacher, Elena Victorovna - a teacher of Russian language and literature in the lyceum I spent last 2 years of my high school at. She is Belarussian, studied in St.Petersburg, and was the one who started to make things differently and encouraging. I want to find her and thank her
21. I was never at my home town school class meetings
22. I escaped from my home town school to find other people who would share similar attitudes and interest as I had
23. My best treasure in life are my parents and my friends
24. I'm lucky to have 9 very close friends, I shared my life with. I LOVE YOU ALL GUYS
25. I think I'm not the best daughter, I don't call home often
26. I still love and respect my parents, my father and mother are the best
27. My pa used to be a military officer
28. I have a brother who is 3 years older and is a military officer too
29. I'm the only one from my family who has ever been abroad
30. My plan for the next 3-4 years to work in 3-4 different organizations in different regions: South America, Western Europe, Asia
31. Ideally I'd like to get an experience and start my own business that would help to make our world cleaner place, that would keep it longer and better for our next generations
32. It means (speaking English) that I'm interested in environment protection
33. I'm interested as well and I'd like to work in energy, publishing, health care, movie making, children care, advertising, air company/airport
34. I want to bring happiness to people
35. I have a marketing degree
36. I don't like cookies
37. I didn't know about Zara and H&M until I moved to The Netherlands a year ago
38. I've never been in Ikea
39. I love candles
40. I always re-design a bit the place when I move in
41. I wanted to be a designer, an actress and a singer when I was a child
42. I don't really sing well
43. But I like to sing, especially with guitar with friends
44. I LOVE when someone plays guitar
45. I want to learn it myself one day, hopefully next year when I have money to buy the guitar itself :)
46. Usually I sleep 8 hours a day
47. But on Saturday and Sunday I almost never wake up before 10
48. I like shopping for food, and I like to cook for my friends
49. I like tee a lot, my favorite one is green tee
50. Internet started to play much more significant role in my life this last year, i think thi sis one of greatest inventories of the humankind
51. Favorite place to upload photos is Flickr
52. Oh yes, my hobby is a photography
53. I have only digital camera, but sometimes I manage to make good photos anyways :)


54. I like beauty in simplicity
55. I like to give presents to my friends
56. A lot of time in my childhood was spent in the nature, as we got our summer house in the village in the national park of Belovezhskaya Puscha
57. I can spend a lot of time just observing nature
58. I can't leave without nature, at least sometimes, I'd never be able to live in Sap Paolo for long :)
59. Oh yes, I love observing people as well
60. I always felt that I'm more mature than my age, all my friends are older than me
61. I want to visit all countries in Europe, and half of the rest
62. One day I'll do a sailing trip across the sea
63. I accept that there are male and female things in life. Yes, I think that a man is the head of the family (and a wife is the neck hehe:)
64. I expect men to take care of women, help carry heavy things and protect us
65. And I believe a woman is the one that makes a home out of the house
66. However I'll be happy if my (future, unknown now :) husband is able to cook great
67. Oh yes, I expect to get married one day, and I want ideally to have 3 children
68. I think I will be a good mother
69. I'm a very sensual person; I feel things better by touching them (so I sometimes break museum rules of not touching exponents :)
70. I can't imagine my life without sex
71. I saw the sea for the frist time in my life when I was 19 - it was Baltic Sea.
72. I still haven't been in real mountains
73. I believe there is one person, THE ONE, She or He, for each one of us
74. I admire the feeling of centuries, and treasures of people's life experiences when I'm in some old places (castles, pyramids, cities)
75. I have very lively imagination
76. I think, that I think in images
77. I don't like horror movies
78. I think best movies that are leaving some positive thought, even if it's a drama
79. My favorite movie is Love Actually, and favorite cartoon is Ice Age 2!!!
80. It seems I'm a positive, self-confident, realistic person :)
81. I need to learn to take feedback better, I'm improving
82. I can't lie, I go red immediately
83. I didn't believe I'm a nice looking girl, until I was told about it several times
84. I'm introvert
85. I like solitude sometimes
86. Actually I look for answers, for inspirations, for solutions mostly inside myself
87. I'm quite self-critical
88. I believe that I'm the one who defines my life
89. My favorite book now is The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
90. I want to make a difference, at least for those closest around me
91. I like to run through ponds in the strong warm rain
92. I love rainbows
93. I like to live in a comfort
94. However I can live with basic conditions, if I know that something else in my life matters most for which I need to sacrifice it. And when I know that it’s going to be better, at least sometime
95. I believe unbelievable can happen
96. I want to jump with a parachute, drive a motorbike, do water skis
97. I love camping with a fire at night
98. I love heights and flying by airplanes
99. I want to know every moment of my life that I do the work that is worth doing
100. It was much easier than I expected to write these 100 things :)