20 Years after Chernobyl
I just updated the site of Green Cross Schweiz last Wednesday night. As I’ve written before, Green Cross will have a Painting Competition, actually a “Babushka” Painting Competition. I just created a pop-up window at the startpage of the German version site announcing the event on the 26th of April 2006.
The event is a demonstration of solidarity of the school children from Switzerland for the children of Chernobyl. I just hope that you still remember what happened in Chernobyl 20 years ago. The nuclear power plant accident occured in Chernobyl in the former USSR, now Ukraine, on April 25-26, 1986. For more information about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, please visit this website, www.chernobyl.info.
What does “Babushka” mean? Babushka is a Russian word meaning “grandmother” or “old woman”. I found out that some english dictionaries defined the word Babushka as a “woman’s head scarf” but in Russia it is never used to mean “woman’s head scarf”.
If they defined it as a “woman’s head scarf”, what an imagination, the evolution of the words, huh! In this case, the word “Babushka”! I guess, they called it that way, probably because most of the “Babushkas”, the grandmothers in Russia and Ukraine are always wearing a scarf covering their head.
Anyway, if you already click the link Green Cross Schweiz, you probably read the details of the event at the pop up window. If you want to participate, just inquire at Green Cross Switzerland.
I am Sofie Hofmann and I have been designing websites since 1999. My background is in training, sales and marketing before venturing into web design and development but merely as a hobby.
November 25th, 2005 at 4:21 am
BABUSKA. A new word in my vocabulary. I thought it means bye as in babush he he he. Anyways i thought its BUSHI because we used to have a classmate who looks old and we call her bushi.
November 25th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
Hey, Hello Quiti! Hahaha… yep, you’re absolutely right, we really say that when we mean bye2. I’m one of those who’s fond of using babush replacing bye2. I’ll try to upload Babushka paintings done by kids when Green Cross had its Babushka painting competition before.
December 22nd, 2005 at 8:32 pm
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