Μπρεστ: Ταξιδιωτικός οδηγός, τιμές και δωρεάν διαμονή · 2026

WWladekmariaalicenicols · 13 Απρ 2010Διάβασμα

Hey, I'd like to start by welcoming all the participants of the Work and Travel program. My story won't be long, as first and foremost I'd like to share my purely personal feelings and tips, and do it quickly. (After all, I understand that we are busy, business-minded people, which means we don't like reading for too long :), only what's "to the point"). Of course, the road to Moscow seemed like a very difficult and drawn-out affair for me – Moscow is 1250 km away from my cozy town called Brest. Besides that, I had a small train trip to Minsk ahead of me, and from Minsk by bus to Moscow, the journey was long... A total of 2500 km round trip. I don't know Minsk that well, but I know the main streets; it's not for nothing that I studied and lived in Minsk for 1.5 years :). However, it would have been much better for me to "dash" to Warsaw, which is located approx. 200 km from Brest: especially since I know Warsaw and I have a one-year multi-visa to Poland + it's also 4 times cheaper for me and more convenient in terms of comfort. Oh well, I think, I guess I'll have to go to Moscow, am I better than other Belarusians? I didn't start making a fuss, and maybe they have an agreement with the Moscow consulate. Well, Let’s saddle up!!! We are going in!!!

WWladekmariaalicenicols · 13 Απρ 2010Διάβασμα

Moscow is an amazing place, but just as dirty. You can feel the imperial ambitions of its architects and inhabitants, which is understandable, as Russia is, strictly speaking, an Empire (with a capital letter, and, so to speak, the cradle of the East), and Moscow is the center of this largest and richest country in the world. The large number of high-rise buildings, cigarette butts, and the small number of trash cans are striking. But the buildings are a separate topic; they hang over you like domes, like stone blocks grown from underground, making you feel small (it seems you are tiny compared to this world)—that is the most amazing thing! I am often in Warsaw and love that city, but in Warsaw, you feel cozy and comfortable, while in Moscow... ah, in Moscow you don't feel like a cog or a screw in the system, but rather a speck of dust in a big city. Yes, that's it... An unforgettable feeling!!! I was surprised that cigarette prices are roughly comparable to the price of a single metro ride!!! This is truly incomprehensible, since in Warsaw the cheapest cigarettes cost 9 zlotych (the very, very cheapest), which is about $3, while a metro ride costs about $1—that is, the metro prices are roughly equal, but the difference in cigarette prices is quite noticeable. I won't talk about Belarus, since the metro in Minsk costs approx. $0.3, and cigarettes are about the same as in Moscow, but the quality of cigarettes is much higher in Moscow than in Belarus, so I smoked to my heart's content. I was so happy I smoked two packs. There are many Poles in Moscow; they are good, nice people. I even talked to one Polish woman: - Pszepraszam, czy ma pani zapalniczke? [Excuse me, do you have a lighter?] - Tak, prosze :))) [Yes, please] - Dzienki [Thanks] - Jakie masz pochodzenie? [What is your origin?] - Jestem Bialorusinem [I am Belarusian] (and here such pride and a smile from ear to ear :D), mieszkam w Brzesciu, to jest bardzo ladne miasto. A Pani? [I am Belarusian, I live in Brest, Brest is a very beautiful city. And you?] - haha, wiem to miasto, jestem z Gdanska, ale dobrze mówiesz po polsku (here I am convinced once again that Poles are good diplomats, which is why they make such arguments, although my Polish is very bad) [I know that city, I am from Gdansk, but you speak Polish well] - O, dziekuje bardzo, no tak troche znam tego jezyka, bardzo czesto bywam w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, oprócz tego chetnie zwiedzam ten kraj. [Oh, thank you very much, well yes, I know this language a little, I am very often in the Republic of Poland, besides that, I gladly visit this country] Here a kind of brotherhood occurred, we talked about topics like “Powazam Palaków, Powazam Bialorusinów”, but I had to urgently run to look for the Konsulat, brrr... J)) US Consulate: - Milo mi bylo pania poznac, ale trzeba isc do Ambassady Stanów Zjednoczonych. Do widzenia Pani! [It was nice to meet you, but I need to go to the US Embassy. Goodbye!] - Do widzenia Panu [Goodbye] Well, it was good to practice Polish at the same time... I go out onto a long street, as I understood it was part of the Garden Ring, interesting!!! Where to go? I asked a passing girl (not a local, you can see it immediately), it turned out she was looking for it herself... It became even more interesting... I saw a couple, a guy and a girl, and immediately a reflex – Belarusians, brothers!!! These definitely know: - Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to... - Oh, we are not locals... - ... (I continue) the US Embassy? - Oh, you need to go there, along that street, you will see the building there. - Oh, how did you know that we knew where the US Embassy was here? (with such surprised eyes 8)) Oooh??? - It's written on your faces that you are from Belarus (And I think to myself: “Yes, we are like that – responsive, bright, and generally nice people in all respects J))) I walked there and again didn't understand where to go... (I start turning on my brain... “beep”... turned on) I asked a guy

GGulzhangulzhanka · 16 Ιουν 2009Διάβασμα

Privet vsem! Ya hochu napisat' kak nachalis' moi zamechatel'nye i luchwie kanikuly s Work and Travel. Nachnu s togo, kak ya vyletala iz Almaty po avialinii KLM. Menya provodili roditeli, rodstvenniki i druz'ya. No poka ya ne chuvstvovala, chto sobirayus' vpervye uletat' tak daleko za okean, v stranu svoei mechty. K etomu ya shla ochen' dolgo i uporno, tak chto reshila ne ostanavlivat'sya. My proshli vse proverki v aeroportu. Ya poznakomilas' so mnozhestvo studentami, u kotoryh byla edinaya mechta, interesno i nezabyvaemo provesti eti kanikuly, uluchshit' angliiskii yazyk, poznakomit'sya s lyud'mi, priobresti druzei, zhiznennyi opyt i opyt v rabote, a samoe glavnoe uvidet' mir svoimi glazami i stat' samosoyatel'nym... Stol'ko vozmozhnostei v odnoi poezdke!!! Itak my seli na samolet, mne ochen' ponravilos' obsluzhivanie, mne dali kartu obsluzhivanya i ya napisala, chto menya vse ustraivaet i mne hotelos' by snova poletet' po etoi avialiii. I vot ya vizhu iz illyuminatora chto my podnimaemsya v nebo, ya vizhu stranu izdaleka, belye oblaka. Ya nikogda ne dumala, chto letat' na samolete tak legko, prosto i ochen' udobno. My vsyu dorogu obshalis' so studentami, ne zametili kak vremya proletelo. My prizemlilis' v Amsterdam, byli v Aeroportu 3 chasa, i vyleteli v N'yu-Iork navstrechu k mechtam!!! N'yu-Iork mne ochen' ponravilsya, megapolis ogromnyi, tak mnogo lyudei. K vecheru vezde byli yarkie ogni i prozhektora. 1 den' my nochevali v hostele i kupili bilet do Ocean City Maryland v Grey Hounde. Na sleduyushii den' nas vstretil rabotadatel' i my ustroilis' ochen' horosho. Seichas ya rabotayu, po vyhodnym hodim na plyazh, znakomimsya s lyud'mi i priobretaem druzei, mozhno skazat' so vsego mira! Kogda ya vpervye uvidela ocean, u menya byli bezgranichnye chuvstva i emocii, plesk vody, shum voln, morskoi briz- vse eto delalo okruzhayushii mir eshe prekrasnee! Ya polyubila etot gorod, ego lyudei, ptic, prirodu, ocean i zaliv. Rada, chto reshila provesti kanikuly imenno zdes' i imenno po etoi programme, kotoroe daet bezgranichnye vozmozhnosti studentam so vsego mira! Spasibo, roditelyam, kotorye menya podderzhali i razreshili pobyvat' v etoi zamechatel'noi strane i Work and Travel, kotoryi pomog otkryt' novyi put' k budushemu!!!