In Russia, we say, “Summer is a little life.” The birthday of my summer life was June 20, the day I landed at Wuhan Airport.
As expected, at the beginning of new life, I was given a birth certificate — a student card, new home — Western 3 dormitory, and taught how to use water and electricity. And, of course, like in life's early days, I had to learn how to eat — eating rice with chopsticks has never been an easy task.
My little summer journey brought me big new experiences. My first move led me to the Yellow Crane Tower. Step by step, like small children learning to walk, my little summer life explored Wuhan — Yangtze River Bridge, East Lake, Guiyuan Temple, Gude Temple of Hankou — once you visit one attraction, it is impossible to stop. Every day turned into a pursuit of new places in the amazingly beautiful Hubei Province.
Of course, it would have been difficult to enjoy all these places alone and I've shared this with my new incredible friends. Together, we hid from the heat, played volleyball, got lost on campus, learned to ride mopeds, and went to Chongqing for the weekend. Cheerful, kind, and intelligent, they, like me, came to HUST to discover new things and understand the unknown.
This new and unknown was provided by HUST University, which widely opened its doors. Robotic dogs, driverless cars, and humanoid robots literally took over my mind. As a robotics student, I am completely thrilled with the new technologies and projects that the university offers in its laboratories where I was always welcome. I trained a robotic dog, learned how to stabilize a humanoid robot, remembered the basics of mechanics during lectures. I visited places of incredible beauty, saw monks dancing in the Crane Tower, listened to Chinese opera, watched a train go through a building in the city of Chongqing, tasted all kinds of rice, Chinese noodles and tea.
But unfortunately, like all good things, these days at summer school fly by, and very soon my new little life, which seems to have started only yesterday, will turn into an endless memory, which I never forget.
