June 2005

Dear Irina & other staff, This is Marios again. Sorry for bothering you so much but this time I do not have a question. This time I would like to let you know that I just came back from Ukraine where I followed the Odessa & Dnipropetrovsk socials. I had a wanderful time and this is due to the help and friendly approach of your staff, Sasha, Karina from Odessa, Maria from Moscow and Alexei the photographer. I would like to thank them very much and please notify them, as well as your boss so he can reward them to the maximum. A suggestion I already made to them and I would like to mention to you is to arrange for a week holidays in Cyprus this summer. The least I can do for them after all their effort is to offer them this holidays. I hope Anastasia can arrange this holidays for them. If not I will speak directly with them and arrange it. I can even accomodate some of them in my home to save hotel expenses. They will need just to pay the air ticket and visa plus pocket money. We can speak in more details about it later. Another suggestion I have regarding the socials is with respect to the second city socials. A 4 hour bus ride to go especially in Kharkov and then 4 hours to get back is very tiring. Also after 4 hours of bus ride everybody is so tired that they can not have the strength to follow 6 hours of socials. Also if somebody finds a date during the socials he has to come back to let say Dnipropetrovsk and arrange somehow to go back next day again to see the girl. Staying in Kharkov alone after the socials is not a good idea with a girl you just met. I would suggest to find a hotel in the second city and stay for a night at least. This way the people can have a shower in the hotel before the socials and stay after the socials with their date. They can check out from the first social city and move to the new hotel and then check in again so Anastasia do not pay for 2 hotels the same day. This was a suggestion by a lot of American friends there as well. Thanking you again for a wanterful time. Marios

Marios