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Welcome to my UKRAINIAN PRIDE website!!! This site is just starting out, and still under construction. So please bear with me! :) Why are you proud to be Ukrainian? In what ways have you shown it? Send your story to ukrainianhotstuff@hotmail.com, and I'll post it!

You are Ukrainian if....

• You travel 8 hours for a malanka and don't remember much from the weekend
• You walk into a zabava or malanka and can name at least 5-10 people you've hooked up with in the past
• You spend $300 on a dress and it ends up on the floor the next morning
• You've spent an entire Saturday getting ready for a zabava or malanka
• You've ever consumed a case of beer and went on the dance floor and spun around at 100mph without feeling sick
• You've ever owned and/or worn a pair of red leather boots
• Your knees are shot by the age of 25 from all the dancing
• Your local dance instructor is revered as God
• You make a statement by wearing your sharyvary to school or work
• You've spent 4 hours doing your hair/makeup/costume for a 5 minute dance
• If you can't play soccer, tennis, volleyball or ski by the age of 5 you'll be left to die in the wilderness
• For exercise, you know aerobics has nothing good on polka
• You phone bill exceeds $200 a month due to calling your
• You've ever hung out at a cemetery with 400 other people and caught up on the latest dirt on the side of the road
• You're relieved that Sluzhba Bozha on Saturday was only an hour and a half
• You question how Propovid during mass can go from Jesus to Ukrainian politics to heavy metal in 20 minutes
• Your baba gives you a guilt trip about not being married yet and tells you she's going to die soon
• You have a nickname because your regular name is the same as 40 other people in your immediate community
• You've ever bought electronics and packed them in your suitcase for family in Europe
• You've ever been served a shot of vodka for breakfast
• You've ever hit someone with a switch of pussywillow in a fit of religious fervor
• You've justified hosing down the priest on a certain Monday in the springtime
• You think Halloween is bad? Try getting someone to answer the door during kolyada season
• You love those surprise

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