it all and try to find myself. i wanted waking up in the morning and going to work for days. i came across an advertisement s.o.s. villages for kids looking for mothers. i was thrilled when i saw it i had to write a letter to the director and i spent half a day of my computer at home alone trying to find words to describe what i felt. could convince him that i was the mom they were looking for and they had to call me immediately.

yes i was a genuine paints go on and i look through your c.v. why you decided to work in the village it's a way of life it is twenty four hours but what i don't like is spending eight hours a day at work without really knowing why or weren't doing it for. a successful applicant for the position of s.o.'s mother is a twenty seven to forty three year old woman who either doesn't have children of her own or has adult children who live independently. thirty four years so you meet a handsome young man who's going to love you and want to have children with you but when i tell the kids early on as found herself a man it's all over. it's not as though there are crowds of men here in the village lining up for me begging me to make me please. for the kids.

kindness and care it was very fond of cooking reading and talking to interesting intelligent. and interesting. week. once you get good morning kids good morning wake up. get up it's time to go to school no one to sleep. due to doing one boy for example told me that once he woke up got ready and went to school and it was so early in the morning that even the night watchman was still asleep course it was black his mother was a drug addict she didn't even notice her child gone i mean to exclude him they told me my scariest stories about what their lives her life and all of their drunk mothers fleeing home and living on the streets or in on heated garages that's what

these small children have gone through they've led me into their world and it became easier for them to cope. have you prepared clothes for the animal corner that have you taken was some a closet yes and there raincoat no problem go do it then. it's not a kindergarden or an offer in which it's a house where you live with your family or your children that five children. beds and it's fun and cool new pool they're all small so they're always running of our life but there are two of energies so they're constantly doing something claimed. for a good morning. the reason we've faced this on a post-war collective farm was any women and children here. that i'm an old soldier myself just like after the second world war so we all work together here. it was

an ordinary week no incidents everything's fine in our house. while the mothers here work a bit like the left turn a ship. if the captain allows you to go ashore once a week or even once a month. the only question was how do you feel. i can say anything was especially appalling or surprising it's more or less what i had prepared for some things i didn't know about were quite unexpected but they didn't shock me. and wanted to enjoy the most wanted to bring you joy in the next fifteen years the kids. but truth be told on this ship is my duty and the only difference is that i live in this cabin with my wife and child how well. building this ship brought me back to my naval yes as a young. woman i built this ship just the way i remember it. as

my service yes we still have it. in touch with my former colleagues and fellow cadets. enough it's naval officers that support the village and. tell them it's not just anybody it's an s.o.s. village. is an international distress signal meaning save our souls. just as the nose of any go. cold comfort or. if i happen to be around hold and try to calm down a child in distress. i can be a father to seventy children just like i can be a husband to twelve mothers. here. or there are there are. at the beach. they won't

sting. sting. you know you'll live. i would one for you i think an s.o.s. father is probably a man who was with her she must be even tempered and have the patience of the saint . i was in the evening when children come from school kindergarten since extra lessons as they gather roam to me and started growing mom help me help me mom he's taken my pen and it becomes a currys the house. while you all shall sing you join the drama club yes and shout their nails they aren't. they're clean my nails are clean. what do you do any more color and they also go to syria. for you i do know is sergey is the true father for the whole village the mothers

and children alike he is the boss with a capital b. . history of being known to argue she would have made a wonderful father because he's very firm level headed confident and competent if you know how to treat children. my sister and her husband still try to convince me that i should have a child of my own they tell me not to worry that i don't have a husband and promise to support me after they keep saying that it's not a real family because their children are not my own but i think it's stupid idea i hope i will fall in love with a man who will force me to choose between him and the kids got about i hope i'll never face such a choice. of pressure which i will look at what i want to marry a man who will take responsibility for me and the children but i haven't met such a man yet. but i've regained an appetite for

life and that's what happened to me this place lives at its own pace you feel as though you're doing something useful. young what does worry of a lot of us i've been divorced for quite a while and lived alone for more than nine years now. have a sixteen year old daughter who is in the tenth grade and an elderly mother there back in perm and the septic last another was that my daughter may be jealous but only of the youngest kid six year old korea. she's a very tenacious child you know if you don't let me go no i won't lose the us we got on this list quite a difficult child very opinionated and sometimes my daughter says now i know i hate children if i reply to you before but it will pass in time and there's no reason for you to love kids at the age of sixteen. is kind of helps

me with my homework and cooking and teaches me to be healthy and brave. nable a kid at first i took four children in january two or joined our family. i came back from vacation to discover that i had six children not four and six children that i need to look after you. hello sweetheart how are you going to get up. fine so what do you have any free time. on a toll on one of us do you what's new let us know everything's all right around the time we learn brings home good marks three or four days every day. i got good marks for general conduct which especially please me. hello hello. wedding homework is helping me with physics well make sure your boyfriend doesn't

distract you from your studies when need to talk. well let's talk about ten pm when i put the kids to that was. that all this stuff but i don't want her to think i've left her there. that's why i would regularly talk online that's why i always send money back home. i put aside very little barely enough for a modest life it would be great to have the support of the man i love. i won't have to choose between. work i had already face a choice once. i left work and my husband served in the military but i would choose a man this time. this man had better be prepared to accept me with the work i have and the life i. think there are probably no such men.

there all villages like this in russia where mothers bring their own children and raise them all together. but it's not the same. even if a mother does care for everyone equally all the children start complaining that she loves one more than the other of course there is a distinction here my daughter is my own daughter. realized i'm not the kind of person who can raise and log and adopt a child i'm not jealous may want to know. even when a mother calls him at eleven or twelve doesn't even if she's young and attractive i say absolutely call. new mothers who are younger and younger good day for example i was going to wait and met my has been in the company of a pretty young woman. your husband in the company of your. mom with

a young mother. so as mom as for an s.o.s. dad you have to go through the whole country with a fine tooth comb to find a couple like bass with the difficult. women s.o.'s mom falls in love with a man it's different. than s.o.'s mother but he's not an asset. dad she's my junior but what about him i use boss to jordan doing in a sense from three of my rivals as we speak i'm pretty and. you got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially for your public appearances for food and even though they weren't explicitly political they were just supporting sports teams that certain people regime has

become very adept at is controlling the media for example right here c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i think it's have an agenda i think through gender is is bought and paid for. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on we're going to be

coming back. at our teen years we have a different breed. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not gonna look. at. you guys sort of jokes i will hand over the stuff that i've got to. when western politicians and media invoke the phrase international community it almost always reflects the thinking and agenda of washington and its closest allies around the world in this matter the international community is in fact a very small minority. is on a big journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through to some minor town two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people

or sixty five thousand to one. in a record setting trip. there. are numbers face. a limp a torch relay. on our t.v. are. the same the old. boy i was surprised when alexander the oldest of the kids called me mom she was the first to do it like she was too early and i jumped at that moment because i wasn't ready yet it's like if a man proposes to you and you answer whoa whoa i need time to think so when she called

me mom i needed time to think to get used to the idea i spent a couple of days sorting out my feelings. that well my mom god. and another woman. i know didn't understand it when i first saw her yeah i know he has a job. i never listen to her and called her names and said this to sings to her just now it's only until another vehicle. because stanley used to her. she has sky and nice. and caring with mom is that you could say. the most important person in your life. but in my big conflict if i tell a child to do something for example kids often want to play instead of doing their homework one of my girls.