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Continue reading →: 7-year itch, or The things Kate from the past wouldn’t have listened to
The internet is full of advice on moving to London. From ‘things I wish I knew before moving to London’ to ‘if you think you want to move to London, think again’. The problem with all those posts is that, when a person has made up their mind, they won’t…
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Continue reading →: 10 things I hate about you, (my nation)If someone says something bad about Belarus or Belarusians as a nation, I will start mentally exterminating them. The only nation you can criticise is your own, regardless of whether you were born into it or if you earned your way into it with your efforts to integrate. I haven’t…
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Continue reading →: The Dumbest Thing an Immigrant Can Say
By now, I have seen it a million times. A person moves to a different country. They rent a flat (or even a house), find a job, sort out their new day-to-day stuff (which isn’t easy)… and then they spend years trying NOT to live in their new country. They…
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Continue reading →: What integration really means?Ah, integration in the UK. The central topic for many politicians and for the Home Office. One of the most controversial subjects when people, regardless of their background, start talking about immigrants. The topic that helps blame all problems the nation faces on immigrants. In software development, we have a…
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Continue reading →: 5 crazy-cheap and helpful Soviet ideas for a modern-day Western householdA couple of weeks ago, something terrible happened… Something that was terrifying me for the first few days to the extent I couldn’t stop crying whenever I looked at myself in the mirror. I had my eyebrows done. They call it ‘powder eyebrows’, but the way it was done, it…
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Continue reading →: When you want to get hitched, prepare to get unhinged, or A brief update on the wedding prepYou know how, when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with a person you love, you envisage a romantic wedding party with flowers, a nice meal and the ultimate bliss? Funny how, in this case, the reality unmatches your expectations quicker than you unmatched that…
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Continue reading →: Looking back and looking forward – and my advice for those considering MBA courses in the UKMe in my early 20s – have just completed Year 3 at the uni, and enjoying celebrations with my friends. The last few posts have been covering different aspects of my online MBA journey in the UK – from the selection and decision-making process to the gap between the expectations…
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Continue reading →: To err is human, to learn from it is what MBA is all aboutOne of my coworkers says that it’s always painful when your crown falls down. My big failure on the first attempt of studying an MBA online showed that this was an understatement. When you have been a top student your entire life and are used to being at least among…
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Continue reading →: Studying an MBA in the UK Online: Reality vs ExpectationsHard to believe that, but it’s me on my graduation day, ca. 2012 In my previous post, following a few nostalgic moments reminiscing of the time when I was in my early twenties, I shared the story of how I ended up signing up for an MBA at The Open…
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Continue reading →: From Belarus to Britain: my experience choosing an MBA in the UK onlineI have very few nice memories from the times I was a school. It is basically just a bleep on my timeline with a few nice glimpses because of a fantastic history teacher we had in the last two years or a couple of school friends with whom we went…
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A Belarusian by birth and a Londoner at heart, an aspiring marathoner and a novice author who is trying to make sense of the life in the UK – and how an Eastern Slav like me can fit in. If you are considering a move to the UK (regardless of where you are from), want to learn more about Eastern Europeans – or simply enjoy reading random immigrants’ stuff – this is the place to be!
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