Hey!
My name is Anna. I’ve been living and studying in Latvia for more than 3 years now. Even though this country has some similiraties with my home one, I still found many things that surprise me a lot!
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Useful videos:
I’ve studied in 4 countries: https://youtu.be/IdOIOoE9BV4
My studies in France: https://youtu.be/_9Yh5fi1RH4
How I ended up studying in China for 7 months: https://youtu.be/b2_GOUawswo
Life in Latvia: https://youtu.be/R0mdFRfJCxU
My insta: https://www.instagram.com/anna_sanderson_/
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About the cleanliness – it definitely wasn't always like that. I remember, growing up in the 90s, my local forest was always full of drug paraphernalia, discarded crisp and drink packaging, dog shit… Good changes.
It used to be much dirtier, I remember 90's , people was dumping everything everywhere . It started to change only after 2000
Randomly i got to know your channel. Interestingly i got more information about Latvia
I never got the bike license. You don't need it anyway after you get the B category license.
About cleaning pathways and houses in winter. If You own property near public space, like in city, You should clean it, because it concerns peoples safety. People falling on ice can result in serious injures, not mentioning getting injured or damaging property, like cars etc, from falling snow or icicles from rooftops.
Actually cleanliness and love of nature is part of our culture. Pollution and degrading of thous values started after occupation and mas influxes of foreign peoples. Situation started to improve after we regained independence. Of course situation didn't improve overnight, we still needed to clean the mess and needed time to reeducate part of population.
This was very helpful! Thank you for sharing your experience! Latvia is one of my potential options for international study. Good luck with immigrating to the next country. Much love ❤
hi madam
I want to know one thing about Latvia
If you have a driving licence (for a car), you don't need a separate bicycle licence. I don't know if this works for foreign driving licences too. Maybe EU issued?
As I don't have a driving licence, I had to pass a theory test (no practical exam) to get one. The test lasted 15 minutes and I was issued with my licence within 10 minutes. So the process was not complicated.
I am from Lithuania. It is clean too because we actually care about our streets and nature. We don't make it dirty. We respect our country. People might look gloomy but they are actually friendly if you don't do anything bad for them. People are careful. Not angry just careful. Special after what russians did in Ukraine. We have a right to be careful and we can't ignore it
You need bike licensce if you are +14 years old, police will never stop you. Thank you for good words. Best of luck
Wow, what a beautiful account, Anna! It warms my heart so much that I even had tears in my eyes listening. I was born and raised in Latvia, but it's the 11th year now since I live in the US. Thank you for sharing your experiences. I am interested in other cultures as well, so I subscribed. Keep doing what you are doing.
I've had a bike licnece for 8 years, no one has ever asked me to show it
I do what I can. I put bottles to recycle etc.
Maybe there is a brighter future to fight for the best thing I can is do what's right and clean environment.
One of the reason our forests and surroundings are so clean – Spring Cleaning. Yes, country-wide Spring Cleaning – it happens every year on the third saturday of April. It's absolutely voluntarily – people can apply and yes, we go out arround our houses, parks, forests etc and pick up trash. Bags are issued by local authorities and left at designated spots for the garbage tracks to pick up later. Lately in many regions instead of picking up trash people devote this time to improving local amenities like playgrounds etc because there is not much trash to pick up.
bicycle licenses, lol. adults don't need it, it is intended for children. I got mine at primary school for showing up at traffic safety awareness event.
When you grow up, license remains active, because it doesn't have expiration date, in theory, cops can press charges for cycling related traffic violations, but they cannot take away your bicycle license, I'm not sure, that a procedure to take away toy license even exist, it is untouchable.
In a sense, it is most powerful and most useless license at the same time.