I'm doing my master in China and it was quite a long way to get here... I was born in Smokensk, which about 6 hours by train from Moscow to the south-west. It's not that far from the capital of Russia. I used to be a person who was studying very hard at school. And from school times I'm having this desire to learn languages. I do remember when the first time me and my friends met a foreigner from Germany in our town and I was the first who opened the mouth and started asking different questions. May be it was a key moment when I realized what I like and what I wanna do in the future. After graduating from school I entered one famous university in Moscow. I was a scholarship student who have decided to start learning Chinese as my first language. After three years in university I got a grant of Confucian institute and spent one unforgettable year in china