Foreign people in Yekaterinburg

I can't explain why I decided to use Goodle blog search to search for Ekaterinburg. But as a result I found two blogs that I couldn't stop reading. These blogs belong to two foreign students studying in Ekaterinburg now -- Betsy from the U.S. and Josefina from Sweden.

Reading these blogs made me very vividly remember the time when I was an exchange student in Belmont University, Nashville, U.S.A. Many feelings were so familiar - the excitement, the homesickness, etc. Well, I hardly believe now it was so long ago. Twelve years has passed, my English became much worse without much practice, but I am still very happy I had that opportunity to spend a year in a different country.

I believe temporarily living abroad for a relatively long time teaches one to understand different people, different cultures and accept different points of view. Unfortunately too many people believe there could be only one truth. They accept the fact they may be wrong sometimes themselves but refuse the idea that there might be many different points of view all being true.

Well, back to the blogs of Josefina and Betsy. When I was reading them at some moments I had a feeling of entering a private space without an invitation. Nevertheless I decided they didn't mind anyone reading their posts or they wouldn't put them in the Internet after all. I also hope they won't mind me posting links to their blogs here.

I thought for a moment about posting a comment to the blogs offering to contact me in case they needed any help here in Ekaterinburg, but decided not to do it. Such an offer from a stranger might look suspicious and I probably can't really offer anything more than friends of Josefina and Betsy can anyway. So I'm going to simply enjoy reading their blogs.