10/29/2022 0 Comments Hard west ost![]() ![]() ![]() I am into art, music, and ballet – it’s pretty common in Russia – and I didn’t have anyone with whom I would go to the new exhibition or to the Opernhaus no one around seemed to have any interest in it or they’d just say that it’s zu teuer. I used to feel so angry when I heard that the only Russian surname people know is Putin, while we have Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Malevich, Kandinsky, Chekov, Pushkin… you know. I will write more about the projects, meetings, and exchanges in my next post, while now I am mostly speaking about the emotional and personal part of EVS. ![]() NB! : I need to say that the points that I am describing here are specifically mine: my pros and my cons it doesn’t and shouldn’t mean that everyone would feel the same. I can’t say these first 3 months were easy for me – my first projects and seminars, language barrier, family is not around, German sense of humour, Deutsche Bahn, shops and cafes being closed at 7-8 o‘clock from Monday to Saturday (people are having their Shabbat on Sundays – very nice, thank you), “Oh Gott, bist du in Düsseldorf? So posh!”, people thinking that I was surviving not living once I say that I am originally from Russia, and many other confusing and complicated issues to deal with. I’d been living in Germany for 3 months before leaving back home for Christmas holidays, and now here I am – back to Düsseldorf. ![]()
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