Ukrainian teacher is looking for an apartment in Icking for herself and her children

Created: 08/02/2022, 20:00

By: Bettina Sewald

Looking for an apartment: Oksana Semenova came to Icking from Kyiv with her two children in March.

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Oksana Semenova and her two children Mischa and Darina have been living in Icking since March.

In October, the family has to leave the house they have been living in.

The German teacher is now looking for a new place to live.

Icking

– Oksana Semenova came to Icking with her two children Mischa (16) and Darina (11) in mid-March.

The young mother had previously fled to friends in the Allgäu before the hail of bombs in Kyiv.

She stayed there for almost a week.

"We had been in contact for a long time because the woman worked for the same company as my husband," she says in an interview with our newspaper.

After it quickly became clear that she would not be able to go back to Kyiv with her 16-year-old son Mischa in the foreseeable future (he would have to join the military there), her friends gave her the empty parental home in Icking.

The grandmother had died half a year earlier and no decision had yet been made as to what should happen to the house.

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The parents followed

The 45-year-old moved in with the children.

Her parents came from Kyiv at the end of March after the situation in her home country had become increasingly dramatic.

They were all well received in Icking.

At the first Ukraine meeting in March at the sports field, Semenova got into conversation with the second mayor, Claudia Roederstein, among others.

"I told her that I'm a German teacher." She received an invitation to the town hall.

Together they wanted to think about working together to improve the integration of the refugees.

"Actually, I wanted to work in the kindergarten," reports Semenova.

But the two mayors quickly made it clear to her that her knowledge of German was needed more urgently at the school.

That's how she was hired.

At first she only taught a few hours in elementary school,

now at high school.

After initial adjustment difficulties, she quickly settled into the community.

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Now the Ukrainian has been informed that the house she lives in has been sold.

"We can only stay until October, then we have to leave at the latest," she says and hopes that a new opportunity will open up soon.

"This is a good community here, we would very much like to stay," she emphasizes.

At first it was difficult to process the terrible experiences.

In addition, she is worried about her husband Serhii, who as an engineer is actually responsible for ultra-light products at the Eros company and now works from home in his workshop for the army and manufactures small parts for drones.

But after a few weeks she said to herself: "Stop whining - this is our new home now."

Very settled in the village

Oksana Semenova and her children are now well connected, with the refugees, but also with the people of Icking.

"I have a good job, my children go to school here, and I'm already in the choir," she says, happy about her successful integration.

These days she had her first performance with the Ickinger Choir in the church.

The whole family is musical.

Unfortunately, Mischa had to leave his cello behind in Kyiv, "but we took my daughter's bandura (a Ukrainian instrument with 60 strings, editor's note) with us."

Her husband had driven her and the children to the border by car under great hardship.

Then they continued on foot with suitcase, backpack and the instrument.

It is still dangerous in Kyiv.

As soon as the situation has calmed down, her parents want to go back.

Oksana Semenova wants to stay in Germany with the children for the time being.

She hopes that her son can finish school here and possibly go to university.

In the town hall of Icking, one also wishes very much that the family finds a suitable apartment.

Claudia Roederstein: "We are very grateful that we have such a good person in Ms. Semanova, who helps us with the lessons for the integration of the children." In addition, she often stood by as an interpreter to help.

BETTINA SEWALD

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Contact

If you can help in this case, send an email to ok_semenova@yahoo.com.

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