Art exhibition, dedicated to the 275th anniversary of the city of Orenburg, opened in the Orenburg Presidential Cadet School.

The gallery of the Center for Cadet Creativity presents paintings by members of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia Olga Nagornoy, Alexander Burov, Vladimir Ivanov and other masters of the brush from the personal collections of the school staff.

The paintings differ from each other in color, coloring, techniques and means of depiction, but their authors are united by their love for nature, history and the picturesque corners of Orenburg. This is the main feature of the art exhibition.

Among the works there are paintings by our teachers. Realistic and poetic look "Yards of Orenburg" on the sketches of a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia teacher of fine arts Anna Fedorina-Stepanova. A "Winter Evening" by a senior methodologist Elena Kalugina surprisingly subtly conveys the silence and transparency of the cold twilight.

As a person who arrived from abroad 2 months ago (after 5 years of absence), I was very curious to read a patriotic and enticing article from http://lifehacker.ru about the advantages that the life credo “where you were born, there and useful."

Here are the main advantages for staying and building your life and career in your home country:

Cost of living

Despite the rise in prices, today the cost of living in Russia is much lower than, say, in Italy. Only the payment of utilities in Europe covers the costs of the average Russian resident per month. Public transport is also 10 times cheaper than, for example, in Germany.

With products, things are a little more complicated. If the prices for European products are practically equal to Russian and Ukrainian ones, then their quality differs significantly. And, surprisingly, not in favor of European ones. For example, the Ukrainian “milk” is really much tastier than the European one (we are talking about store products, not rural ones).

Difficulties in translation

In order to live in another country, you have to learn a foreign language. For the everyday level, you will need at least six months of language learning. To understand all the subtleties in financial and government institutions - even more. And this is sometimes very difficult.

Whatever the level of proficiency in a foreign language, the native language remains native.

Parents and friends

Having left for another country, you lose acquaintances and friends. Yes, you can continue to communicate with them through social networks and various instant messengers. But that's not it. You can't call your friend Mishka and ask him for a beer on a Saturday night. You can't get together with a big group of old friends to play board games.

Also, your relatives and parents will remain at home. Unless, of course, you have the opportunity to take them with you. You will especially miss your parents. Skype will not be able to replace live communication and the opportunity to hug your own mother.

All around native

You grew up here. Here you went to kindergarten, then to school, to university and got your first job. You know how things work here. You know what to do and how to do it. You know the important laws of your state and know what you can’t do and what you can do.

You already have or will have children, and you will need to send them to kindergarten, school and university. And here, in your homeland, you know what needs to be done for this. But in other countries you will have to get acquainted with everything for the first time. You will not know what is good and what is bad. You will have to step on thousands of rakes.

What do you say, dear readers, could these four rules-observations influence your choice to leave or not to leave the country?

I will share my experience in this matter. It so happened that in life I did not look for easy ways. He chose the profession of paleontologist. My work turned out to be related to extinct animals that lived millions of years ago. So it turned out that by the age of twenty-four I became a researcher at a specialized institute and a candidate of science, but ...

But it turned out that there was no talk of any decent salary. Only pure science, only hardcore! So the first point of the plan - "the cost of living" was not fulfilled in any way. On the contrary, work under a contract abroad looked like a good (and what is there, almost the only) way to earn money without changing your profession.

As one of my Russian acquaintances, living in China, said: “I like to feel like a foreigner!” Indeed, partial knowledge of the language of aborigines or possession of only a universal means of communication - English, often makes life easier for a foreigner abroad. Yes, you are unlikely to be able to discuss your favorite book or a recently seen movie with a seller in a supermarket, but you will also be protected from unnecessary gossip, negativity and other informational noise. You won't understand them. In my case, everything was a little simpler, I knew the language of the country I was going to, and this gave me the charming charm of an educated barbarian in the eyes of the locals.

It’s hard to argue about the points “Parents and friends” and “Everything around is dear”, there really can’t be helped. I knew one of our specialists who worked in the States, he was very successful, but he returned home because he missed sharing libations with that very “friend Mishka”. As for me, the author quarreled very “on time” with all his relatives and left with a calm heart.

So, friends, life in other countries has both pluses and minuses, it all depends on the person and the conditions. No, it just depends on the person.

That birch, then mountain ash

Willow bush over the river -

Native land, forever beloved,

Where can you find more like this!
A. Alien

Parents and homeland are not chosen.
You can live anywhere, but the Motherland will be here - where you were born, where you were born and where your parents then went into the distance.
What happened to the Motherland? why is everything like this? Is there any hope of changing what will happen in the future?
And what will happen here in 20 years, when our children grow up, or in 100 years, when their grandchildren grow up.
And will it even...
It is believed that Russia is a country chosen by God, Russians are a chosen people, after the Jews did not justify the trust placed in them :)
Chosen for what? - change and save this world? That is why they are different from others, that is why they live and suffer.
Russian is also an interesting word. In old books, "Russians" was often used as a synonym for "Orthodox".
Who are the Russians? Those who live here, on this earth, for whom Russia is the Motherland.

..
It all starts with children.
they absorb everything - everything they see and
hear around. And even more. They have not yet lost the ability to catch
thoughts, feelings and emotions around them. What man once owned
but later lost in the process of its evolution. the same way
"development of civilization" goes through the child - from the embryo to the little man,
crying in the arms of a young mother. He hears and feels mom
without words, just as she during this period "remembers" the lost when
that ability. With the growing up of the child, this telepathic connection
weakens and at the age of five or six the child becomes an "ordinary person" -
can see, hear, touch, feel. Sometimes this ability
suddenly manifests itself in adulthood - usually in some important
critical moments related to the health and life of loved ones.

But now, I want to talk about that.

Future. What's this? what will happen in an hour, tomorrow, a month, a year.
What will come after us are our children.
It starts with them.
What is the future that awaits us, and even more, their - our children?

Sometimes
it gets scary. Not only from what is clearly visible - ecology,
smoldering and flaring up wars, terrorism, national contradictions and
etc.
In addition to this, everything that may seem at first glance not very important, not so scary, is frightening.

But this is precisely what prevents humanity from changing for the better.
What, how and in what environment our children grow up
What
they are surrounded by what they see around them, what and how their parents talk about,
how they interact with family and friends. what do they do in their free time
what they watch on TV, what they laugh at, etc.
Children absorb everything. M We often underestimate them. They can see things that we don't even think of. And sometimes they educate us.
They suffer when we - their parents, the people closest to them quarrel, swear, shout.
They are
get sick for real when they see that it brings dad and mom together - they
save their world - their family. What if a divorce happens?
And besides such obvious tragedies ..
Even
if all is well at home, in the family. How does a small child feel?
man - little man in the world? in the garden, on the street, in the store?

They laugh at me. they say that I draw badly, I can’t dance and I dress ugly.
And yet .. no, I will not speak.
- what happened, daughter? don't worry, what's the matter? Mom loves you, don't be afraid, speak up.
- they talk bad about you.
- bad words? swear?
- .. they say you're not pretty.
- Do you believe them?
- not about you. you are very beautiful to me. And my dad says the same.
- what about the rest? you are engaged in dancing and go to the "artist". do you dance or draw worse than them?
Mom, they can't draw at all. but others listen and say the same.
- don't trust them. They see that you are doing well and are probably jealous.
- but I'm not pleased and offended. I will no longer dance in the kindergarten. And I don't want to draw.

Of course, she is different from many other children in the group.
BUT
will go to school. Even if you manage to choose and get into a good one - where on
the porch is not smoked by junior-middle-high school students and tsy. And not around the corner
empty syringes lying around..
Where vulgar programs and stupid cartoons will be discussed, and if you cannot participate in this, you will become an outcast.
"Scarecrow".

Random
fragment from Shrek, just caught on lunch break - Fiona sings, she
the bird sings along, the tonality rises - the voice is higher and stronger until
until bam! - the bird bursts, we see three eggs, which it
hatched in the nest. The next frame is a sizzling scrambled egg for Shrek. -
funny?
in general, we do not notice it. - there are things much worse and more disgusting around. but it all surrounds them from childhood.
if everyone laughs at a scene from a cartoon, then it's not scary, but funny. - cool!

She watches other cartoons, listens to other music. She will be different from the crowd. it will be hard for her.
When she and her mother have to go by "minibus" she says - "mom, why are there such bad songs, what a rough voice."
It will be hard for her, just like her mother, who has not learned to respond to rudeness and rudeness.
- Daughter, let me show you how to stand up for yourself. I'm starting to pinch you - push me!
Smiling. can not. - "I'd better leave."

The worst thing is how, in what environment, in what "environment" our children grow up.
If a
suddenly, on Sunday morning, at breakfast you turn on the TV, not the DVD
or a computer book and you will see a good cartoon, a children's film, and then
there will suddenly be an advertisement-announcement with a flash of accidents, corpses, explosions and all
other - what will remain in the memory of the child, in his subconscious?
-fear, insecurity, a sense of defenselessness and hopelessness, bewilderment ..

We haven't watched TV for a long time. but if you sometimes turn it on and you get on something like that..
-
Maybe it's a really thoughtful effect. - they form their own
future. they will be comfortable with such well-mannered people.
the future as they want to see it.

The child is accustomed from childhood to
surrounding him with violence, stupidity, rudeness, vulgarity and bad taste. He
ceases to notice all this, it becomes the norm of life - he just
does not know otherwise.

How will she continue to grow and live, if now
seeing at breakfast the above, she says - "Let's better
Let's see Girls.

.. Move away .. - many see salvation in this. Move away if you can’t change anything, leave if you can’t change yourself ..
I don't know.. Probably this is really a way out.
But..
I was born here, I was taught like this at school: in Russia - Russians ..
Here is my homeland.

To become like "everyone" in order to survive?
or
How can "everyone" become different in order to change the future?