My Life at Al-Farabi KAZNU
Divakar Singh Gurjar, India
A.K.Akhmedova, Department of Language and
general education of foreigners, Faculty of Pre-university Education
It’s indeed a great pleasure writing about my time and experience while at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University previously be called as Kazakh State University – located in the City of Almaty in Republic of Kazakhstan – in short also called as KAZNU, and from hereon I will refer the same as KAZNU.
My name is Diwakar. I live in the City of Jaipur in Republic of India. I attended and successfully completed 6-months’ Intensive Course (Jan.’19-June’19) in Russian Language at the Faculty of Pre-University Education in KAZNU. This period of time is one of the most memorable experiences of my life. Before coming to Kazakhstan for attending the course as stated above at KAZNU, I had heard in detail about KAZNU University and the city of Almaty from two persons who were known to my father. They had attended some other Medical University in Almaty and so they were quite familiar with the place and the Educational Institutions there, this perception was quite natural. After this, I searched for myself throughout the internet and found that KAZNU is one of the Best Universities in Kazakhstan having a Good Rank among the ”Rankings of the Best Universities in World”. The second factor, why I chose KAZNU university in Kazakhstan for studying Russian Language and not some other university e.g. in Russia, is that during my College Graduation, I had studied about Geography of Asia and so I got some knowledge about the Geography of Kazakhstan. And, thus it was then I got convinced that Kazakhstan is a very beautiful country with a comparatively smaller population while the City of Almaty is the most beautiful and modern city of Kazakhstan. Also the fact that Indian Culture and Kazakh Culture has a lot of similarity in contrast to Western Culture. Thus, having all these factors in my mind, I decided to take admission in KAZNU.