The girls quickly learned the German numbers, and the pronunciation is already working well, says teacher Natalija Omeltschuk, praising her students. “But the most important thing is to see them laugh.” Omelchuk ran a language school in a small Ukrainian town 150 kilometers from Kyiv. She experienced the war, spent nights in the basement with her family and the neighbors to seek shelter from the bombs, made camouflage nets because there weren’t any left to buy.
She fled the war