Recovering Joy

The President of the Association of Ukrainian Hispanists is organizing a presentation of my book at the Spanish Embassy in Ukraine. I’ve never had any contact with this kind person. He’s not doing it because we are bosom buddies, or anything. Isn’t it great?

Yes, there’s corruption in Ukraine, as everywhere. But its extent is vastly exaggerated. Also, things really changed since the nineties. Back then, nobody would do anything unless you paid exorbitant amounts of money, and then they’d do it badly. Ukrainians have learned how to do things because of passion and enthusiasm when before everybody was completely sapped of energy and joy by the recent Soviet past.

OK, I’ll try to pipe down about the book for now, even though it’s hard.

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