The pecularities of internship in Volgodonsk, Russia.

Two-room flat is the most common flat in Russia. There is usually no living room and the entire interaction takes places in the kitchen. I was awarded the same flat type, which was also equipped with several local housing improvements. The first thing you'll need to cope with is the front door. Along with the other keys from the flat you probably got one big enough to open the gates of Kremlin . You put it into the lock, but it won't turn around - it's upside down. You pull it out and start over, but the key gets stuck in the middle of the process and won't go any further. You make several logical attempts to open the door, you shake the door handle, but with no result. Therefore you decide to ring your neighbour's doorbell; an older woman in a bathrobe opens the door and doesn't follow what you say to her at all. Eventually she comes to the door and unlocks it on the first fry. The trick is simple: as you turn the key around, you need to lean against the d...

At the end of the year 2017 I felt that I'm quite fed up with life in well-run and comfortable European Union, thus I have arranged an internship in Russian Springfield - a town built around a nuclear power plant called Volgodonsk. Volgodonsk in summer. The image I am not destined to see. On 10 January, having flown through the air corridor Bratislava - Moscow - Rostov, I made it to the agreed rendezvous point, where I was picked up by the head of the local branch of AIESEC organisation. For the purpose of the upcoming football championship, the city has built a new airport located quite farther from the city centre than the old one - the drive takes about 45 minutes. In order to kill some time I was telling stories about my previous stay in Russia. I said that in my opinion the biggest difference between Russia and the EU is that here no one gives a damn about the common citizen (like you or me). I demonstrate the experience by this particular case: I was in St.Peter...