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The Volunteer’s Blog

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Well done, you found my super awesome blog about my EVS (European Voluntary Service) in Chuvashia’s beautiful capital Cheboksary. Here, you will hear all about the projects I work in, about camps, life as a long-term volunteer – and life in Russia through a ‘немка’s eyes.

I have lived here for about a week now but I haven’t found so many of the ’typically Russian’ things which my friends and family repeatedly told me about – brown bears, vodka, snow, Banjas, Kalashnikovs, vodka, meat, mafia – and again vodka. What I have found instead is a clean, peaceful city, very good (and cheap!) food, of course some vodka, but also lots of чай, квас, кефир, and about a hundred other milk products. As for dangerous wild animals – the most exciting encounter with Russian nature was a homeless cat unexpectedly crossing my path when I left the house. So…really, forget about clichés. …Cheboksary might not be so different from my German hometown after all. Want to know why I was still surprised when I entered the first Marshrutka? Why I didn’t believe ’Русский Стандард’ is the name of a bank, and that people don’t divide their garbage? – Come back and read this blog!

 

 

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