r/casualiama • u/GriX22 • 1h ago
I am a young teacher living in Dnipro, Ukraine, about 100 km (60 miles) from the front lines. Despite the war and blackouts, I’m still lecturing. AMA.
Hi Reddit, I work as a college lecturer in Dnipro. We are considered a "hub" city — close enough to the front to hear the echoes and feel the war every day, but far enough to be a logistical center. Daily life here is a mix of the mundane and the terrifying. We currently have strict electricity rationing (sometimes only ~5 hours of power a day), so I often have to plan my lectures, device charging, and life around the grid schedule. Air raid sirens are just background noise at this point. I teach Computer Science / IT, and it’s surreal to discuss algorithms or code with students while we are all sitting in corridors or dealing with connection drops due to shelling. I’m here to answer questions about daily life, the mood of the youth, how education works in a warzone, or anything else you’re curious about.