I was born and raised in Siberia, and then moved to
Krasnoyarsk and then lived in Moscow.
Then I came to JMU. My major is Hospitality Management.
It will obviously help me a lot in my life because
American education is considered to be very good
back in my home and everywhere in the world.
It's also an opportunity to meet other people;
it's not just about the education in an academic sense.
But it's also the educational sense that you're experiencing
the culture and getting to know the people.
It's a completely different world. It's a completely different
way of living, of teaching, of everything.
First I got here and I went to ISC.
This is a program for international people.
It helped me a lot. I had an opportunity to meet with other
international people who are just in the same situation as me.
So I could make friends and I could learn a lot from them
and we could help each other.
And also we had classes with specific instructors
who already knew how to work with international people.
And the orientation program at the beginning
also helped me a lot,
so I wasn't as overwhelmed and looking around
to see what I'm doing and what is happening,
so it guided me a lot and it helped me.
