Chapter 3 Arriving at Alma Mater
Because of the cold weather, the gate of the dormitory building here is a double-storey structure.
That is, outside the main entrance, there is also a glass-structured door opening.
The outermost is a thick green canvas curtain, which can effectively isolate the cold air outside.
Open the curtain, pass through the glass door hole, and arrive in front of the main entrance of the dormitory building.
A very typical Soviet-style door, with log door frames, thick door handles, and double-layer strips of thick glass.
The door handle and door frame are a little shiny, which is used for too long and it is a bit patellar...
As soon as I entered the lobby, I felt a hot face and a heat rushing to my face.
Some students with glasses immediately turned white and could not see anything.
Because of the same climate, it snows in Moscow for seven or eight months a year.
Normally, it starts to snow in October every year and continues until April of the following year.
And this is not over yet. Sometimes, in May and June, or even July, snowflakes occasionally appear!
The climate is cold and can reach minus 30 degrees at the lowest point, so heating is very important.
Here, indoor and outdoor are completely two different worlds.
When Wang Ye and the others got off the car, even though they were wrapped in thick down jackets, warm clothes, thick wool pants, they were still frozen in an instant and felt cold in their bones.
Standing outside, you can't help but "tremble"...
But when we arrived at the dormitory lobby, it was like summer!
You can also see some students passing by the lobby wearing short sleeves and big shorts...
The heating is very sufficient, the indoor temperature is above 25 degrees, so it is really normal to wear shorts.
Wang Ye also knew that when he arrived in the room, the temperature would be even higher, sometimes it could even reach about 30 degrees, and he could not cover things even when he was sleeping at night...
"Wow, why is it so hot! I'm going to sweat." Liu Xiaojie, who was next to him, opened the zipper of the down jacket, took off the myopia glass on the bridge of his nose, pulled up the hem of the warm clothing inside, wiped the lenses, and put the myopia glasses on again.
Wang Ye smiled and didn't say anything, but he also unbuttoned the down jacket on his body.
After a while, he was sweating a little.
Teacher Wu, who led the team, went to the dormitory management office to complete the procedures, leaving them to stand in the hall and wait.
After looking at the surrounding environment, although so many years have passed, I still have a vague memory. After all, I have lived here for more than half a year.
All the people living in this Building No. 6 are preparatory students.
Domestic college students may not understand the concept of "preparatory course", but foreign students who come here to study must study for one year and pass the preparatory course exam before they can officially enter university.
Wang Ye and the others all came to college after graduating from high school, and of course they also had to go to preparatory courses.
They all came to study abroad through an agency, and they started to go through the procedures in June and July last year, but this agency was a bit tricky and the procedures were too slow.
This led to the fact that they were supposed to have been studying for preparatory courses in September last year, which has delayed it until now, and has been delayed for half a year.
However, the agency also communicated with the school, which would allow them to enter "exciting classes". They only need to study for a preparatory course for half a year before they can go to college.
Of course, the premise is to pass the preparatory graduation exam.
Before coming, Wang Ye and the others were not idle either. The agent held a Russian training class, which allowed them to start learning in advance.
The preparatory course mainly involves learning Russian, because after entering university, you have to attend classes with Russian students. If you don’t have the language level, you won’t understand even if you listen to the class.
As for whether language can really reach that level in a year, everyone knows it.
When I was in my freshman year and sophomore, I could only listen to professional courses, but the main thing was to learn languages.
Only international students who truly study hard can speak language basically pass the level of speaking in their junior and senior year.
As for most students who do not study hard, they may be able to stay until graduation and communicate with the Russians in daily life.
The group of people who graduated from high school and went abroad to study can be said to be mixed with good and bad.
Some people really come out to learn, some come to make a living, it depends on their own choices.
In comparison, those who come to Russia to study are better because those who come here all have some money at home, but they are not rich enough.
At most, I just don’t study hard and just spend my time playing computers. As for squandering and wasting, my family doesn’t have the strength...
Among the international students, there is a consensus, that is, if you really want to say "study abroad", you will be the first to go to New Zealand and the second to Australia...
Generally, students who go to those two places do not really go to study, but to get visas for immigration.
Moreover, the cost of studying abroad in those two places is very high, and the family does not have enough strength, so they dare not send their children there.
The real "people" among international students go to the United States, whether they go to college after graduating from high school or going to study for a doctorate after graduating from college.
Because you go to study in the United States, either your family is very capable or your personal grades are very excellent...
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The dormitory lobby is quite spacious, with a small shop near the corner of the interior, which mainly sells some food, beverages and daily necessities, while the rest are empty.
The floor is covered with wooden floors, but it is not the popular high-end "oak floor" and "root floor" in China. Because of the rich wood resources, many buildings are covered with wooden floors.
But the wooden floor here is quite distinctive, all of which are rectangular wooden strips of length and length, which are densely spread on the ground.
As the years go by, the floor has become looser, and when you walk up, it sounds like "creaking, creaking".
"Brother Ye, the environment here is good. I don't know which dormitory I will be assigned to later. It would be great if we could be assigned to one piece." Liu Xiaojie next to him said again.
The two of them were fellow villagers, and before they came, they also trained Russian together.
Liu Xiaojie is the same age as Wang Ye, both of whom are eighteen years old, but he is half a head shorter than Wang Ye.
He is a simple and honest person and has a good relationship with Wang Ye.
"I guess there's no chance. Didn't the teacher just say that in the car? In order to allow us to integrate into the environment faster, we will try our best to arrange it separately." Wang Ye said with a smile.
Indeed, if you want to integrate into a new environment as soon as possible, it is best not to join people you are familiar with.
If you get here and Chinese students continue to live with Chinese students and study together, your language ability will definitely be slower to improve, because you usually communicate in Mandarin and have fewer opportunities to exercise your language.
But if you live with foreigners, even if you are not an old Russian, you will try to use Russian if you want to communicate.
This invisibly forces you to improve your language level as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!