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Continue reading →: How living in a different language changes you
Whenever I crave a bit of showing off, I share a very simple fact about me – I speak 5 different languages. OK, two of them are my native ones, Russian and Belarusian, so I can’t really take credit for them. I just happened to be born and raised in…
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Continue reading →: When time is a commodityThey are moving the goalpost for me after all… It’s not set in stone, but most likely – yes. A couple of weeks ago, the Home Office announced pending modifications to the settlement scheme. Their proposal for immigration changes is now open for public consultation. (If, by any chance, you…
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Continue reading →: Getting a UK driving licenseHaving completed my big move to the UK, which involved transporting my cat from Minsk to London by car back in 2019 (that’s a completely separate story), I didn’t bother too much with a driving license. After all, for the first year in the UK, I could use my Belarusian…
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Continue reading →: Secret perks of being a person from a second-world countryA view over my native city from a mall by the central train station (and my uni is on the left-hand side) I was once asked what Brits and Belarusians have in common. First thing that came to mind was that both nations like complaining. And that might be one…
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Continue reading →: Frequently asked questions about Belarusians – and short answers to themWhen someone learns where I am originally from, the most common response I hear is ‘Oh wow, I don’t think I have ever met someone from Belarus before!’ That’s true – we are a rare breed. At least outside of countries where many Belarusians ended up in the past few…
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Continue reading →: Making friends in LondonIn my first few years in London, I heard way too often that making friends in this city is virtually impossible. People would say that very few stay in London for long enough to build and maintain long-lasting friendships, that everyone is way too busy with work and all the…
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Continue reading →: Dating in London: why is it broken – and how to make the most of it anywayYou are in your early 30s, you divorce your partner of 10 years and send him back to your native country as he’s proven completely useless in life in general and in expat life in particular, and you end up being single in one of the biggest cities in the…
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Continue reading →: How to freak out your British boyfriend if you are an East Slav
If you are a single woman in your early 30s in London, the dating life can be hard. (the topic certainly deserves a separate post) Tons of people who are not interested in any sort of commitments, shallow dates, cultural mishaps due to the multinational nature of the city –…
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Continue reading →: At Home Among Strangers (or am I?)It felt as if that 5-hours’ flight lasted an eternity. From the sunny and hot Tashkent in the middle of June, where I hung out with my lovely Uzbek co-workers and was force-fed the most amazing plov and samsas I have ever tried, I was being transported to the country…
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Continue reading →: What surprised me when I moved to London – and which of these I love or still struggle with (part 2)In my previous post, I shared some of the things that were quite a cultural shock to me after my relocation to London. Regardless of whether they make me tick or ick, I’ve chosen to embrace the ways of my new home whenever possible. This post has a few more…
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I’m Kate
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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