![]() Starting We Were Here Together, we find ourselves with our buddy in an old shack in the middle of a blizzard trying to get out of our rooms. “We hope we’ll get him back soon,” he says.We Were Here Together brings us a 10 Chapter puzzle indie game that will have you thinking ahead throughout the whole story. Sebastian’s cat, Watson, is being looked after by another family for now as the place where he is living doesn’t allow pets. ![]() I feel that here you can be who you want to be.” But they are also very tolerant of each other. “They go to sleep very early and we have to be very quiet in the mornings and the evenings. “It’s a relief to be here even if it takes a while to get used to the German way of life,” he said. ![]() Her friend from home, Sebastian Kohan, who followed her to Potsdam, wears his grandfather’s signet ring on a chain around his neck – a gift from his father who is working with the army, which he says keeps him close to him. The students can share their experiences and feelings that German pupils might not understand, she says – from living in a shipping container, where she has been since her arrival in April, to the progress of Ukraine’s army. “I’m keen to get out of this experience as much as I can,” says Ksennia Okulova, 15, who is enjoying “learning German and getting to know the culture” and appreciates being in a class with other Ukrainians for the time being. “Next to my family and friends it’s the most important thing I have here,” Daria says, describing how she spent the summer holidays learning the art of aerial silks. Instead the 13-year-old friends take the tram to Potsdam’s Montelino circus school where they’ve been able to resume the acrobatics they practised in Ukraine.Ĭlassmates and friends Daria Ilnytstka and Kate Pavlenko, both 13. Kate and her classmate Daria Ilnytstka, from Kyiv, could take extra online classes offered by their teachers in Ukraine after their German school day is over. She describes the experience of being in Germany in her basic but solid German, as “good, interesting and safe”. Kate Pavlenko, from Kharkiv, arrived five months ago with her mother and pets, Robin the dog and Krosha the parrot. But he is looking forward to getting his German up to “B1 level” – “hopefully by January” – so that he can permanently join a regular class. He already attends music, PE, art and maths classes with German pupils. It’s better for us to build a new life here,” he says. But there is also realism a keenness to learn German, in part due to the recognition that they might be there for the next two years at least.Īrtur Ivanov, 14, from Odesa, who already spoke some German when he arrived on 18 March, insists he has no plans to return to Ukraine. Mashkova recognises the strong motivation among her pupils and their parents, with whom she is in close contact, to return home as soon as possible. The Ukrainian consul general, Iryna Tybinka, however, has been insistent that Ukrainian children should be able to continue with their native school curricula, due to what she has called the temporary nature of their stay. German authorities are modelling the accommodation of young Ukrainians on the experience from 2015, when almost 1 million refugees arrived from Syria.īack then the willkommesklassen were introduced with the goal of teaching the new arrivals German and preparing them for eventual transfer into regular classes. Opinions differ as to the best way to educate them. Mashkova is one of many Ukrainian teachers who are vital to the effort, not least because of a shortage of about 30,000 German teaching staff. ![]() Hers are among more than 150,000 school-age children who have arrived in Germany since the start of the Russian invasion and are being integrated into the school system. Liudmyla Mashkova teaches her Ukrainian pupils at the Helmholtz Gymnasium in Potsdam, Germany.
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