Yana Efremova
6 min readMay 11, 2020

Blog challenge: WRITE 15 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT YOURSELF!

1. When I was a child, I wondered why my name was Yana. And you know, the name Yanina is exist and I wanted to be Yanina all my childhood. But now I think Yana is better for mešŸ˜‚ not so unusualā€¦

2. All my childhood I wanted to be a flying squirrel because I had a fluffy flying squirrel and it was pink and I adored it so much that I wanted to be thatšŸ˜‚

3. I can move both my eyebrows and make a ā€œwaveā€ with itšŸ˜… like Emilia Clarke actually

4. Except English, I want to learn:

Spanish (because I like Spain and because of the series ā€œEliteā€ haha)

Norwegian (because of the series ā€œSKAMā€ and ā€œRagnarƶkā€ and to understand one of my favorite actors Herman TĆømmeraas)

and Korean (because of kdramas and kpop).

5. I was a ballroom dancer from 2007 till 2013, then I did jazz-funk for some years and now I donā€™t dance because of the study.

I had to give up ballroom dancing because in my dance group EVERYONE started to leave and I didnā€™t have a choice. But then the different exams was coming and I didnā€™t find another group. I wish I had gone to another group because ballroom dancing was all my life.

6. ALL MY LIFE I had short hair. It was only one time maybe in 2012~ when I had a shoulder-length haircut. Unfortunately, I have very thin hair which is look bad when itā€™s long, so to make them look ā€œthickā€, I always have different types of bob(((

7. One day when I was at the dorm, it was the 11th grade, I had to put special drops in my eyes (the Doctorā€™s prescription). So, one evening my best friend Marina helped me to put it and we went to bed. We were talking about something and I decided to look at my eyes. I WAS SO SCARED because one of the pupils was OVAL. Why? I donā€™t know even now! It looked like that:

So it was very unusual and frightening.

8. I can bend both my thumbs 90 degreesā€¦ Iā€™ve never broken them, I havenā€™t bent it on purpose and etc. I just can do itšŸ˜‚

9. My favorite book (and movie) is ā€œMaster and Margaritaā€. Interesting fact: my mom is a Russian and Literature teacher and she often watches this movie. So, when I was 3ā€“4~ years old, it was my first time when I watched the movie. And since then, Iā€™ve been in love with it. And in 11th grade I read that book and I was excited and amazed!!!

10. I changed 3 schools.

  • The first school was called ā€œŠŸŃ€Š¾Š³ŠøŠ¼Š½Š°Š·Šøя ā„–421ā€. It was a place where there were only 4 classes: only one for the 1st grade, only one for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Only 4 grades. Each of them had its own class, its own bathroom, its own game room, itā€™s own dining room and its own dressing room. Also, at that school we had a cabinet for massage, a pool and a nursery. So, it was a place for children of Sormovo officials and another top dogs.
  • The second school was a Physics and Mathematics Gymnasium #82. I was studying there for 5 years at the economy class but I hated EconomicsšŸ˜‚
  • The third school was a Lyceum-boarding school ā€œCenter for Gifted Childrenā€. My mom is a teacher there so it was expected to me to study there. I was studying at the linguistic class and I had English classes 9 times a week. It was very cool! At that school we had a dorm and many interesting things happened therešŸ˜‚

So, yeah, I can say that Iā€™ve never studied at an ordinary city schoolā€¦)

11. In April 2016 I went to Egor Kreedā€™s concert in Milo Concert Hall and it was very cold and snowy outside. So, after the concert I got sick with pneumonia. I was in the hospital for 1 month. But honestly, I really like this time because at the day when I came to the hospital with pneumonia, my future friend Yulia came there with bronchitis! We came there in one day, with almost the same diseases and we were at the same roomā€¦ Later I learned that we studied at the same school but she was 1 year younger than me. After the hospital, we became good friends and even now we chat sometimes.

12. My favorite subject in school was Maths. From 3rd grade till 9th I had a Maths tutor and I was very good at Maths. But I hated Physics and IT Science so my parents and I decided that itā€™ll be better for me to learn English, so from 5th grade till 11th I had an English tutorā€¦

13. Itā€™ll sound strange but in my life I had 3 best friends. In the elementary school, it was Ksusha with whom I even now chat sometimes, but then I went to one school and she went to another. Then it was Katya whom I knew almost from out birth. We were best friends till 9th grade, but then I changed the school and gradually we stopped communicating. Now itā€™s Marina. I do love her. We met each other in ā€œŠ¦ŠžŠ”ā€. We were roommates for 2 years and now weā€™re best friends. She knows everything about me and vice versa. I hope weā€™ll never stop communicating because I donā€™t want to lose her. Marina, me and another 3 girls from our company always remember the time when we were at ā€œŠ¦ŠžŠ”ā€, we cry sometimes and send pictures to each other.

14. You always see me smiling and laughing. But Iā€™ve been feeling sad lately. I donā€™t know why. I know that itā€™s not a depression 100%, but still. I often feel alone and dejected. Maybe because of the quarantine. But I think not. I canā€™t explain it, I think itā€™ll understand only Marina because only she knows my true personality. Honestly, I often behave like a carefree and happy person, but Iā€™m not. Sorry for that. But I think youā€™ll never see the real me because Iā€™m afraid to show it.

15. Itā€™s in my character to argue with people. I do love it. I like to yell, to offend others, to point out a personā€™s disadvantages. Yes, maybe Iā€™m cruel. But itā€™s a real me. Thatā€™s why I have some people whom I donā€™t like and hate with no reason.

When I was at the dorm, it happened that I argued with one my roommate because I hated herā€¦ Yeah, we had big scandals, we slammed doors and threw things at each other.

But you know, it always happens when a person does very stupid things or says something stupid. So I explode and start an argument.

But yeah, after the argument I feel better. I feel a surge of energy and maybe thatā€™s why I love it.

SO NOW YOU KNOW ME BETTER:)

And I want to tag Olesya Yermakova to answer the question in her blog: Where youā€™d like to be in 10 years?

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