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[diusha]

Ellee - I would love to visit Belarus more often but it's a long way from here and quite expensive if we all three travel together. As for coming back - I don't know My husband is sure he doesn't want to return but I'm not so sure...

[Ellee]

diusha, if there is a work and the arranged life why and to not remain. Badly only that native is very far from you are...

[Afra]

hi everybody I am Nadia.I would like to talk end impruve my English skills

[Galochka]

Nadia,welcome!

[анчик]

hi.
i'm anya .

[diusha]

Nadia and Anya - nice to meet you!

[Galochka]

Anya,welcome!

[Хомячище]

Hello! I'm Kate

[Alinushka]

Hello everyone
I am quite surprised that there are so many people on this forum who desire to improve their languages I mean,I've never seen something like this on any other hobby forum before
Something about me. I am student of Office Management, specialisation Management Assistant. What is English for me? A foreign language? Well, I would not dare to say this anymore Since I have been here I speak English more often than Russian English (and French) are among the most important courses of Management Assistant. Well, roughly speaking, a MA is supposed to speak business English fluently I do speak fluently, but still do not know all the business terms
I adore cats My cat is on my avator. My hobby is cross-stitching. I like travelling and chatting (live!) with others
It is rather difficult for me to find here live-friends, because Belgians are quite closed persons.... So, I would like to get more acquaintances and some new friends

[diusha]

Kate and Alinushka - welcome!

Alinushka, how long have you lived in Belgia? Do you know any other people with Russian background? It was a real surprise for me to find so many people from Russua, Belarus, Ukraine etc here in Australia!

[Alinushka]

diusha I have lived here already 6 years
There are a lot of people from formal USSR. But most of them(I would dare to say 85%) are (fake)refugees and they don't really like people who have got here all rights, documents, benefits etc. They have nothing.
When I arrived here, I tried to become friends with them. But I have Belgian citizenship, I get quite huge scholarship, I can do whatever I like and want. So the russian speaking refugees, were quite angry with me and always reproaching me, that I came here and got everything ready. Then I started dating one of them. When I decided to break up, I was very bad for all of them and they were telling me: "Why couldn't you marry him, give him the papers and then break up? You're such a bitch, because you didn't!"
So I finished my relations with the biggest part of them. I agree that it's not nice to generalize, but my experience is quite sad. I am sorry, if someone from here feels bad and angry reading that Maybe it's just me who was so unlucky to meet wrong people
However, my best friend is a Russian, from Moscow. She was also a refugee, but a real one, not fake, as the biggest part. Another friend of mine is also russian, from Omsk, but she is here legal as well -married to a Belgian.
Afterwards I met my current boyfriend - he is a Moldavian, as I am But not refugee. He came here to do his PhD. Via him I met other people from Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova etc, but who came here to work/study. Contacting "high skilled emigrants" (this is their status here ) is a pleasure because they have almost the same rights, they don't have any reason to envy anyone, they have houses, cars, all types of insurance, quite high salaries...
Why I am telling this - because I don't want to be a snobe, who says - I don't want to contact russian-speaking people here, without giving a reason.
I don't know how it's in Australia? Is it the same? Do you contact with others?

[Galochka]

WELCOME, girls!

[diusha]

Alinushka, we came to Australia as 'skilled migrants' and permanent residents. My husband is a programmer so he was the main applicant. And all our friends here also arrived as skilled migrants, maybe that's the reason that we are all good friends, no reproaches, no offences!
There used to be refugees coming to Australia from former USSR earlier but not now - as far as I know. And most of them were of Jewish background and they now are elderly people. I know some of them but not well enough.
We received Australian citizenship a couple of months ago so now we can have all benefits etc if need be.
It's a pity the situation with the Russian-speaking refugees is so sad in Belgia

[Alinushka]

diusha I heard a lot of nice things about Australia It is a country which I would like to visit But not at the moment, my scholarship is not that high
About refugees - it's quite difficult to get as a refugee to Australia and it's easy to come to European countries, because most of them come illegally and then try to regularize themselves
However, it's not the point to be so much discussed
How long have you lived in Australia? My mom has a friend living there, and she was telling my mom that the nature is really marvellous; parrots everywhere, squirrels eating from your table almost no winter and very hot summer and to make a joke: are there a lot of kangoroos jumping everywhere?
It's quite funny, that curiosity never goes away even if you already live in a nice place

[diusha]

Alinushka, we've been here for 3 years. We live in Sydney and yes even here you can see different parrots flying around and they sometimes come to your balcony - white cockatoos, rainbow lorikeets and rosellas. Local "squirrels'' are called possums, they usually hide during the day and go out at night, you can hear them running on the roof No kangaroos in the city - but we saw some grazing together with cows on the farms in the rural areas And you can buy a kangaroo steak for barbeque from ordinary supermarkets if you wish
In regards to weather, here in Sydney we don't have real winter, it's more like very long but warm! autumn suddenly turning into spring. It's "winter" here now but we had nice weather on the weekend - about 20 degrees in the sun. Raining today but still warm. Even at night it's never below zero, but sometimes can be very close to it - especially in the mountaints on the west of Sydney. Last summer was unsually rainy and cool, but a friend of us was telling that in 2004 the temperature was over 40 nearly all summer. It was like that in Melbourne and Adelaide this year but not in Sydney - it seemed to me that we didn't have summer at all (most of the day I sit in the office and miss all the sun )