Olya Ibragimova

Ivan Okhin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:35:00 +0000

Hello!!! I’m Olga from Turkmenistan and I am alumni of the Global UGRAD program’09, Austin, MN and I visited RCC and that was awesome!!!
You know, sometimes many things in life are challenging, but obstacles can be always overcome…to be a newcomer in another city or country can be challenging, and whenever one goes somewhere everything looks new. Sometimes, one feels good or bad being in a new place. To be honest, first days in America were boring for me, I felt myself isolated a little bit and I was afraid of coming a new day. You may be laughing, or say that I was not mature enough or I might be like a child, but I bet every international student goes through such a test, because everything seems absolutely different. However, being far from sweet home, I understood one very important lesson in my life that wherever I go I must seize every opportunity to get to know new things and experience both challenges and good times. To tell you the truth, I did not want to leave my friends, school and favorite places at the end of the last month of my stay in states. I felt I didn’t want to go back to my country. So I’ve been adjusted to a new culture and I liked that. I was able to tell about my culture, traditions and customs to different people. I got very good experience, knowledge and new skills. I really understood what a melting pot means when I was walking in the crowd streets of Chicago, and I realized how life in America is rushing.
To be short, being in states not only helped me to go through challenges (that helped me to see who I am) but it also gave me a great opportunity to explore America by my own. I realized how time is very important, how manageable I became and how life is various when you see it from another part of the word. Take a chance to explore and experience, I adore it…

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Olya Ibragimova