The “Big Sister” of First-Year Vietnamese Students in Russia
The enjoyment of working with new students Every time there is a new batch of Vietnamese students, Mi becomes extremely busy: She has to help these international students with admission procedures, find accommodation, buy medicine, or take sick students to the hospital. In the eyes of many students, Mi is like a big sister, a consultant on many issues from studying, cultural subjects, or problems related to daily life in Russia. As a foreign student support specialist, Mi has taken care of many generations of international students. Because Mi herself understands the difficulties of the language barrier, she has launched a project called “Learning Russian from the soul” which includes a lot of methods to solve the problems that many Vietnamese students in Russia are currently facing. Mi confided that the idea of “Learning Russian from the soul” was formed when she witnessed many children who followed their parents to Russia when they were young. Due to their poor Russian, they h...