Being one of the locals at the university!

Hello everybody,

Unfortunately, we already need to say goodbye to Belarus. It’s our last day but that doesn’t mean we’re not enjoying it. There are still other countries waiting for us!

As Taike already said, we went to Europcar Belarus for renting a car and so we go further travelling by car. The petrol here is really cheap and the prices are all the same in the different stations. This is due to the government. We were very interested in the universities, but we realized that there are a lot of them so we picked one, the Minsk Institute of Management. We made it happen that we could arrange an appointment with the director and we visited the school. The first remark we have is that it’s a very modern building. There are different types of building, a garden but it’s also possible to participate in sports. We were very surprised, because we didn’t expect this. The reason for the different types of building is that there are several faculties. You have the faculty of engineering and information, communications and law, economics and advanced training and retraining “higher school of management”. Because we’re students Marketing, we followed the program “Marketing; qualification of a marketer-economist”. We found it very interesting, but at the end we were very hungry so we decided to visit a restaurant. You’re only once in Belarus so we decided to go for the traditional food, Draniki. This are potato pancakes and the main ingredients are potatoes, which seems logical, flour, chicken egg and cooking oil. It’s not everyone’s favor, but it tasted well. Now it’s time to fill our suitcases and start our trip in Poland. 

I hope you all enjoy our stories and keep on following us!

Stefanie Vanhoele 2MA05
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_Institute_of_Management 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus#Economy