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Personal experience

Personal experience

Culture Shock

Psychologists have long noted that a person entering a foreign cultural environment initially experiences complete euphoria, which soon gives way to an emotional downturn. They have named this…

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"Clients" and Workers

Builder from Kherson region Viktor KLYNKO worked in the Czech Republic – a country that, as is well known, has been hosting a huge number of "temporary labor emigrants" from Ukraine for years…

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Dash to the North

Immigration to Italy: a firsthand account. Usually, when reporting in a newspaper about how to immigrate to one country or another — about entry rules, the procedure for obtaining a residence permit…

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My Ireland - a Country of Study and Work

Probably, ten years ago it was hard even to imagine how freely and confidently our compatriots would move across the vast expanses... no, not of our homeland, but of distant foreign lands…

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Foreigner in the German Police

To begin with, I will say that before coming to Germany as a contingent refugee, I had an idea of the German police only from Soviet war films and from the rollicking, well-known hit song “Eins-zwei…

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Memories of Unna-Massen

Among those coming to the temporary camp for German resettlers 'Unna-Massen', there is for some reason a belief that all offices must be visited in one day, which results in long queues and crowding…

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Ivan the Planter. Specifics of Farming Life in South Africa

South Africa is so far away that we can only believe the tall tales coming from there. In reality, South Africa is somewhat similar to our country. In what way exactly? This is what “our man” in Cape…

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My German Universities

All parents dream that their children will live better. They always connected our future well-being with good studies, obtaining the right specialty, and climbing to an enviable career peak. Time…

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Consider the trip a tourist one. How we went to earn money in Italy and how nothing came of it

I want to tell about my first experience of traveling abroad. This story is quite fresh, and all the described events fit into the time period between Catholic Christmas and New Year.

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A Dotted Line Across Europe. Memories of a Summer Journey

Not only adults travel by bus, but children too (the latter even more often). Their view of the world from the bus window also deserves attention. We offer you the children's impressions as recorded…

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A bug without a piece of paper: how I lost my passport

Last year, at the end of October, just before All Saints' Day and on the very first day after arriving in New York, two things happened to me that are bound to happen to every provincial in the…

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