The Red Square by Elisaveta Semasheva Moving to a new country is stressful. Making new friends is stressful. Learning a new language and culture, having to figure out how to pay bills, apply for internships, go to food shops and figuring out maintenance issues on your own, living on your own, after 18 years of…
Month: December 2023
Russia and Ukraine have been in a state of war for over a year. Countries all over the world are sending any help that they are able to, whether that is military ordnance, clothes and necessary things for the refugees, or simply spread awareness of the situation. Ukraine needs funding to keep standing against the…
https://www.rbth.com/arts/336313-greatest-russian-writers When living in a foreign country, it’s always nice to find little pieces of home around one’s new location. Whether it’s a little local grocery store, which sells authentic products, a new film in the cinema which has been translated into English, a literary work from one’s home country being studied in class, or…
Every international student is told, when registering on their new university campus at the beginning of first year in the UK, to register with a GP. It’s a fairly simple form, doesn’t take too long, and reassures the student’s parents that their child will be provided with necessary medical care if at any point it…
As a kind of established student tradition in Newcastle University, most first year students look for houses in Jesmond, when starting to think of their living situation in their second year of university. It’s usually a fairly stressful time, as there is a limited amount of available houses, and the ones that are rented at…