So what's your name?

[cerealjoe]

In the category "on se couchera moins bête ce soir" we have today's story thanks to has_ka with whom I happen to share first names and a bit of history! Today we are celebrating our name day! So if you're a Галина, Галя, Галинка, Галюня, Галюся, Halya, Gali, Halyna, Galyna, Galina or some other variation, today's your day. Or rather it's either today or on the 10th of March, depending on which tradition you follow (so it says here along with the other possible date of April 29th [or 16th]). Now, everyone go "awwww" over mini!Gali. *cuddles mini!self* Happy name day to you too, mini!Gali.

Comments

[ammesor0.livejournal.com]

adorable little you! i used to do ukrainian dancing, and our costumes looked very much like that :).

[cerealjoe.livejournal.com]

You used to do ukie dancing? That's pretty awesome! How did you get into that?

I, myself, have always sucked at ukie dancing... even at the summer/winter camps and other gatherings with Plast (Ukrainian Scouts) during my time in the US, I just could never get the hang of it. I'm pretty good at cooking ukie stuff so I guess everything is not so bad.

[ammesor0.livejournal.com]

tak :). i dated a ukrainian for a while as the city i am from has a bit of a ukrainian community. he did dancing and i figured why not? i also learned some Ukrainian and can still read/write Ukrainian Cyrillic (although my penmanship probably looks like a child's). and by reading, i mean pronounce. i doubt i could remember the meaning of much of it.

it was a lot of fun, and yes, it was hard.

i really miss some of the vegetarian ukrainian food! real varenyky, fresh borshch with smetana, omg.

my current boyfriend is from bosnia, though, so i still have quite the share of slavic food to indulge in, although balkan food is quite different! and now i'm learning bosnian, which pushed a lot of ukrainian out due to negative transfer.